March 24th, 2009

We woke to another beautiful day in Malawi. The winds were light and the sun shone brightly. In the morning Maria and Gertrude went to the clinic and were able to see the morning HIV and Malaria Prevention lessons given to the patients. The mid day was extremely hot and the shade was a welcome place to be in between hauling loads of bricks or laying bricks. The building is coming along nicely and we have about 3’ of walls up all around. The workers are from a local construction company called Dumbo Construction and we are learning lots. There is only one fellow working with us who we recognize from the time we built the church. His name is Daniel. Other old colleges who we see here are Cedric and Gift. They are working on another project here in the compound. Today we walked up to the church and as we went through the village we looked for familiar faces and hoped to see the kids we shared with in ’07. Today I found Malcolm one of the young children who helped us at the church. Darren and Chris are getting quite handy at mixing cement by shovel. Kees, Gertude, Maria and Paul are becoming very good at laying bricks and mortar.