Building at Kyampisi 2

Filling the foundations of the multi-purpose centre with soil continues to be a significant part of our work at the moment. To be honest, I'm becoming a little tired of shoveling dirt into a wheelbarrow and dumping it 25 metres away - but without a bobcat, it is probably the only way to complete this task. I was pleased that we hired a small truck yesterday, and although we still had to fill it, each load was equivalent to more than 50 wheelbarrows. I can assure you that every efficiency is appreciated!

What I didn't realise until yesterday was that the piles of soil that we're moving weren't previously dumped by human means but by little ants - they are actually disused ant hills. On further clarification it seems they were actually poisoned (weeks ago) to eradicate the ants in readiness for us to use the soil.

Today we undertook another type of building, a renovating job. We added a verandah to a little old house owned by a little old man. It's all part of KCMs program of working within the community to transform the community. It sits alongside projects such as fixing existing infrastructure and establishing business ventures such as building pig pens and buying pigs.

To be completely honest, I didn't actually help build the verandah as I was busy with some locals trying to get out of a sticky situation. As we had lots of rain, the dirt track was very boggy and despite my best intentions and careful maneuvering we got bogged. To cut a long story short, about an hour later we managed to make our way to drier ground (amidst cheering and clapping from the local children).

The day finished with Bible Study at the Kyampisi church. I continued on with Peter's theme from the previous Sunday and focused on 1 Peter 2:9 where we are encouraged 'to show forth the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvellous light'. I used the illustration of a talking flower (who was previously a seed living in darkness under the ground but is now showing forth the praises of God who called it upwards into the light of day). The locals seemed to appreciate the message.