Ferromax video

Here is a video made by our Ferromax store, where we buy our steel roofing panels and galvanized metal products.  (It is in Spanish, but basically all they are saying is that it is a great product.)  All the employees on the video know us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ3qJ4GVs8Q

Siding panels

The outer layer on the classroom building is going up!

We decided to hang steel roofing panels
as siding because there isn't any vinyl siding
for sale here.

The workers hung a plastic tarp to block
the sun from one side where it was melting
the duct tape they were using on the
asphalt paper layers.  At 7000 ft. elevation,
direct sun rays can get pretty strong.
They took down the plastic once the
siding was screwed on.

Cutting the panels to fit under the roof
was difficult, but important for keeping
out flies when we are using this building
as a kitchen.  The flies come from our
neighbor's toilet wastewater dumping pit.

Veronica and I are checking out the progress!

Walls on classroom building

We're excited to finally be putting on the outer walls of our buildings!  The first layer is chicken wire, then asphalt paper, then styrofoam insulation, then more asphalt paper.  The final layer will be steel roofing panels (see next blog entry).

Chicken wire

View from inside, which will have sheet rock

Asphalt paper

3 centimeters of styrofoam insulation

Adding more concrete between buildings

Helping lead worship

Heather/Erica got her guitar out again!  She was blessed to be able to assist her friend, Lesvi, in leading worship at our church.

Friends

One of Heather/Erica's friends from church is a Sunday School teacher named Lesvi.  (You may remember her from a previous post about her husband's funeral.)  Veronica's favorite friends are Lesvi's daughters, Zury and Andrea.   Recently we were invited to Andrea's 6th birthday party.

Games with a clown.

Time to break the piñata!

The girls and Lesvi came over to eat lunch with us one day and visit awhile.

Zury is 9 years old, and
Andrea and Veronica are both 6.
Such sweet friends!

Roof on ministry building

We now have a roof on our ministry building!

The steel roofing is called "termo-acústica."
It is covered top and bottom with a thin
layer of asphalt, then aluminum foil, then paint.
It greatly reduces the sound of rain
and keeps the building cool in the hot sun.

They installed frosted polycarbonate skylight panels
to let in light.

From this angle, the
classroom is on the right, the outhouse
is on the left, and past it is the ministry
building.  Straight ahead is the main entrance.

Here we are at the top of the property, looking
down at the classroom on the left and the
ministry building in the middle (behind a
small construction shed), and the main entrance
right behind Veronica's head.  The rock piles
are on the house site.  They will be used to
build a retaining wall in the 5-foot drop-off
which is a few feet behind Veronica.

Prayer meeting

We hosted a prayer/worship meeting in our home with people from our church.  It was well attended, with 21 adults and 10 children who filled up our house!

Before the meeting, I realized that here in Chichicastenango if you have a group over to your house you are supposed to feed them a meal-type snack.  So I made 30 ham-and-cheese sandwiches on dinner rolls, thinking it would be way too many, and it came out just right (because one person didn't want one).  Praise the Lord!