wonderful partners

The word partner is a big buzz word but we have TRUE partners here, without whom we could NOT do what we are doing. If you could see the transformation in our building since September 24th when our first short-term team arrived, it is truly a miracle. What a God-send these dear people have been. Let me try to list just a few of the tasks they have accomplished: built 4 sets of bunk beds for our guest rooms, installed an awesome music system throughout the entire ground floor, hours of puttying & fixing water-damaged walls & painting every room with beautiful bright colors, dozens of missing pieces of marble replaced, scraping windows and floors covered with old paint, more drilling, hammering, welding, and things too numerous to mention. What a huge sacrifice of love as they spent their vacation time & money and hard hard work to bless us in this way. At times I've been kept awake at night (a very rare occurrence for me)worrying about how we're going to pull this whole thing off. I can honestly say that the panicky feelings are dissipating as I see the work getting done! I will post a few photos so you can see the progress. By next month we'll have furniture and then it will really be a transformation! One is of the cafe, another of one of the preschool rooms (blue) and one of the outside of the building with our sign.