God has done such an incredible job this week. Yes,
I know He does this every week, but for me this week
it was so clear as He sustained us so beautifully through
the first week of construction at En Gedi.
I am Praising Him! that its the weekend, but am excited
to see what the coming weeks will bring too.
Onto the pictures... Lots of pictures
There is a little 'catchment' area for flooding and it
was full of bush so this week, that was all taken
down so they could mark out the back wall of our lot.
And now we can see the neighbors :)
they started digging the side wall
steel was laid in for support.
lots of pick axing was done to get through the
rough Jamaican dirt.
They went 2 foot deep for the footers.
That's a lot of pick axing that happened
this week.
by today (Friday) the side wall was all dug out,
and steel in place. Next week we (and by we I mean them :)
will be ready to pour the footers and start laying block.
When we bought the property there were 2 HUGE
plants that were full of wasps, and right in the line
of where the front wall needed to be. So they had
to come out. (Praise Jesus because I wanted them
gone any way.) These were NOT easy to get rid of
It took 3 days just to chop them down (with a machete)
(Yes, there is already a front wall, but the college, that we bought
the property from, put the front wall on government land. So we
will have two front walls. That way if the government ever decides to
work on the road in front of our house, and have to tear down that
front wall then we will still have our front wall on our property)
2 truck loads were filled to carry it away most of it.
We had a worker work for two more days filling wheel
barrow fulls to go dump in the bush behind the property.
this plant had branches as thick as
a tree.
the root system of the plant they had to
get through to dig footers for the front wall.
trying to pick axe through the roots
Success!
this week we also had to have
an electrician come in and put in
a temporary pole. Since the house
has been disconnected for over a year
the power company requires an inspector
to come make sure everything is okay
before they turn the power back on.
in the past year new regulations have
also been put in place. So we needed
to get a new pole and move the meter
up by the road. Lord willing
we will get the inspector there next week
to approve us so we can get electricity back
to the property.
Prayers appreciated as we continue this project!
