Disclaimer – this post is actually being written at 5:00AM on Saturday, 7/21.  Sorry for the delay!

Our first day of ministry was good.  It was slower than expected but a good day overall.  It began with the usual for us with our morning devotional in the upper room.  That was a blessed time.  We then loaded the vans for what would end up being a lot of driving before the day was over.

Our first stop was in a village to help another ministry build houses.  Their team had asked for some help as time had become an issue for them.  Due to a number of circumstances, it was actually 11:15AM when we arrived on the building sites.  The GRACE team built and completely finished i.e. concrete, doors, hardware, et cetera three houses in that village.

We loaded up in the vans and drove for over an hour to get to our village for the week.  This is our first time to be in this village.  The townspeople were glad to see us.  We completed two more houses up to the point of being ready for concrete and two more just need to have the tin finished and they too will be ready for the concrete.  Good day.

Supper was wonderful and we did not have to rock anyone to sleep last night!

We do not know who or when but someone i.e. a member of one of the teams climbed into the water heater room and stepped on the main pipe going into the water heater.  That erupted yesterday shortly after noon which meant we had no water.  Thankfully, Ross Genzink is with us so he had to leave the worksite and come do the major repairs.  I guess all is well that ends well but I do wish whoever did that would not have climbed through that window.

Thanks for praying for us and keeping up with us via this blog.  Keep praying!