Day 4 - Shoveling Rock

Today is Sunday. The day started off with us going to a local congregation to worship. We go to the congregation where the preacher is the husband of a staff member at CHCH. It was very similar to our worship service back home. We sang some songs, in creole of course. We partook in the Lord's Supper, for which the use wine. It is definitely different than back home. Gary gave the lesson for the day. He talked about 1st Corinthians 3. It was very well received lesson.

Gary giving the lesson with Mosses translating

After worship we had a truck load of dirt come in. Once again we used the old fashioned shovel and wheelbarrow to move the rock. The rock is being placed to sturdy the ground for the playground that will be placed. 

The dump truck, loaded by hand

Below is the site before any of the rock has been laid. You can see on the left a drainage canal. The canal needs to be covered with concrete slabs. Before that can happen the concrete walls need to be reinforced. We started to dig out on both sides of the canal.

Pre work

Putting rock into the barrow

Raking out the rock

Digging the trench

The kids love to help!

The area is almost ready for the next phases. But tomorrow will consist of more digging and more rocks. But here is our progress for one afternoon.

The rock half way back

The side of the canal almost there

It has been very hot down here. It's in the 90's, which probably isn't much different than what all of you are experiencing. We are all sweating a ton. We are also drinking a lot of water. We are going through about 1.5 of those water cooler jugs. So that is about 8 gallons for 9 people. The water comes in those containers because we have to go down town to get the water from a filling station that serves purified water for us Americans with stomachs that can't handle real Haitian water. 

I hope you have enjoyed the post for the day. Please leave me some comments.

Trevor