Since Monday, we have been working on power washing, moving and reassembling a new office for the Community Development program here in Shell, Ecuador.
this week we have made incredible progress with the projects and tasks that have fallen right into place.
We have moved and consolidated three bodegas (storage units / shop buildings) into a new location in the maintenance building here on the compound. In moving the CD (Community Development) bodegas, we re-organized the entire inventory of pipes, tools, containers, roofing materials, and ropes that make up the equipment that the CD team uses out in the villages to create clean water sources for hundreds of people.
Near the maintenance building a pipe broke recently and we dug it up and replaced the old, cracked, rusted pipe with a new, more durable PVC plastic pipe that would last longer.
The new office has been power washed, prepped for priming and is ready to be moved into and has already accommodated all the office supplies and files of several of the CD staff. The doors have been trimmed, sealed and fixed (more than once), and desks, cabinets, and shelves have been moved, screwed in, and unscrewed to be moved again and be re-assembled somewhere else. An area for a new septic tank has also been prepared, blocked off and dug into the mud and grass. Trenches have been dug, roots have been chopped, pipes have been laid, and all we have to do is install the tank and fill in the hole on Monday. The entire building is ready to be primed and painted on Monday. Be praying constantly and praising the Lord for his providence and his helping us along with our work this week!
