OUR 52 DAYS ARE ALMOST UP!
On Sunday mornings were are doing a brief study of the book of Nehemiah. As you know, Nehemiah is a book that describes the dedication of Nehemiah to rebuild the city of Jerusalem, renewing it's people and thus bringing honor back to God.
After arriving in the city of Jerusalem, observing it's deplorable condition and uniting the people, he set out to rebuild the city's walls. Amid much opposition and distractions, finally after 52 days the rebuilding was concluded.
Having completed the physical renewal of the city, both Nehemiah and Ezra set out to renew the people, and re-establish a covenant relationship, long time in "shambles", between them and God.
This is kind of the way I feel at this point. Our 52 days are almost up! Of course I am not talking about a literal 52 days, in our case, but that period of time we have dedicated to renewing the building which will house the church for the next few years.
We have bought chairs, built walls, painted, built cabinets and furniture, hung white boards and cork boards and lot of other little jobs during this process of "rebuilding our walls." Construction and furnishig is mostly done, and I will leave most of what is remaining for when I return at the end of the month (I have a very important engagement in Searcy...Denice and Daniel's wedding).
Here are some pics of some of what has gone on during these past "52 days".
Those of you who are familiar with dry wall will understand what is going on here. Walls were built with aluminum studs and 1/2" drywall to build 3 classrooms, a workroom, an office and a kitchen/cry room.
This is the Toddler's classroom. Trish will mostly be working with this age group.
This is the workroom, where our teachers will spend much of their time getting their class material ready.
This is one of the 2 other classrooms which will be used for our intermediate class (6 thru 13) and our teens.
Pray for us as we transition from doing a lot of "grunt" work to dedicating our time to the people of Cochabamba. Our church launch is just around the corner, and with that we will begin "officially" our evangelistic work here.
I will be posting some more of our "52 day" pics soon!
Chau and God bless!
Butch and Trish
After arriving in the city of Jerusalem, observing it's deplorable condition and uniting the people, he set out to rebuild the city's walls. Amid much opposition and distractions, finally after 52 days the rebuilding was concluded.
Having completed the physical renewal of the city, both Nehemiah and Ezra set out to renew the people, and re-establish a covenant relationship, long time in "shambles", between them and God.
This is kind of the way I feel at this point. Our 52 days are almost up! Of course I am not talking about a literal 52 days, in our case, but that period of time we have dedicated to renewing the building which will house the church for the next few years.
We have bought chairs, built walls, painted, built cabinets and furniture, hung white boards and cork boards and lot of other little jobs during this process of "rebuilding our walls." Construction and furnishig is mostly done, and I will leave most of what is remaining for when I return at the end of the month (I have a very important engagement in Searcy...Denice and Daniel's wedding).
Here are some pics of some of what has gone on during these past "52 days".
Those of you who are familiar with dry wall will understand what is going on here. Walls were built with aluminum studs and 1/2" drywall to build 3 classrooms, a workroom, an office and a kitchen/cry room.
This is the Toddler's classroom. Trish will mostly be working with this age group.
This is the workroom, where our teachers will spend much of their time getting their class material ready.
This is one of the 2 other classrooms which will be used for our intermediate class (6 thru 13) and our teens.Pray for us as we transition from doing a lot of "grunt" work to dedicating our time to the people of Cochabamba. Our church launch is just around the corner, and with that we will begin "officially" our evangelistic work here.
I will be posting some more of our "52 day" pics soon!
Chau and God bless!
Butch and Trish
posted by Butch and Trish at 3:36 PM
1 Comments:
We are friends of Gary and Laura and have been keeping up with the whole team on each of your blogs. I am so glad that God is pouring down blessings on the work you are doing. The building is beautiful (and colorful). Safe travels back to the states and blessings on the wedding of your daughter!)
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