30.8.07
Construction update and prayer requests
Latest construction efforts have centered around the installation of ceramic tile in the Birthing and Dormitory blocks. Also, it has been a major challenge to plan for plumbing and electrical installation. Right now the biggies are finding out how to construct small boilers for hot-water radiators and floor heat and how to build solar panels. It just plain costs too much to buy these made or to import them. Just ask the Lord to send the right people our way.
It is close to the end of dry season and Amachuma is a desert. We are buying water by the barrel from a tank truck. The well has water but the windmill isn´t quite fixed yet. Two guys are working hard on that today.
It was a blessing to have Gina and Allena visit. From sorting and labeling all the boxes of medical equipment we have, to singing with their beautiful voices for a dying patient in her home ---it was great to have them!!!
Pray for our president here and all the unrest in Bolivia. Specifically pray that a civil war can be avoided.
Many have asked how Mary is doing. PTL she is much better! She is driving again and back to work in Ohio.
Thanks to you who are part of this whole project thru your contributions and prayers. I´ve got to get home to pay my workers. Love, Judy
It is close to the end of dry season and Amachuma is a desert. We are buying water by the barrel from a tank truck. The well has water but the windmill isn´t quite fixed yet. Two guys are working hard on that today.
It was a blessing to have Gina and Allena visit. From sorting and labeling all the boxes of medical equipment we have, to singing with their beautiful voices for a dying patient in her home ---it was great to have them!!!
Pray for our president here and all the unrest in Bolivia. Specifically pray that a civil war can be avoided.
Many have asked how Mary is doing. PTL she is much better! She is driving again and back to work in Ohio.
Thanks to you who are part of this whole project thru your contributions and prayers. I´ve got to get home to pay my workers. Love, Judy
Picture titles
I don´t know how to put titles on the pics yet so I´d best just tell you what they are about. One is my newest grandbaby, two are of a heavy snowfall in Amachuma, one is of Gina Hearst (she and her sister Allena came to visit and help for three weeks) and Chispa having a "heart to heart" while she helps plant a rose garden, and one is Mother´s day which I had the privilege of spending with my daughter Mary in the US.
Dear blog friends,
I´m ashamed to even write after so long. For what it is worth, I have tried many times. Maybe today is the magic try. I have to drive into the city and find an Internet cafe where there is a "system" up and running. It is usually a 3 or 4 hour process and that kind of time is hard to come by these days.
It is winter-time in the Andes and it has been a strange Winter. We have had heavy snows (5O Cm once) and then whole weeks where it has been cold (teens and twentys at night and up to forty in the day) but no wind. Not only is no wind unusual, July was my first month on only the turbine. With a turbine, no wind means no electric!! We have a four-battery storage system (200 amps) and that runs out quickly. As soon as we can find the sulfuric acid (hard to come by because it is an ingredient in the process of making cocaine) to fill them, we will add four more that will bring the amperage up to 1000 or more so we should be able to go longer without wind. It is a wonderful system as long as it keeps whirling! All the construction workers have learned to keep their eyes on the turbine up on the hill. If it is whirling, they can plug the cement-mixer, the ceramic cutters, the drills, etc. into that system. If the blades are still, out comes the generator. Pray for us to use this wonderful gift correctly! Judy
I´m ashamed to even write after so long. For what it is worth, I have tried many times. Maybe today is the magic try. I have to drive into the city and find an Internet cafe where there is a "system" up and running. It is usually a 3 or 4 hour process and that kind of time is hard to come by these days.
It is winter-time in the Andes and it has been a strange Winter. We have had heavy snows (5O Cm once) and then whole weeks where it has been cold (teens and twentys at night and up to forty in the day) but no wind. Not only is no wind unusual, July was my first month on only the turbine. With a turbine, no wind means no electric!! We have a four-battery storage system (200 amps) and that runs out quickly. As soon as we can find the sulfuric acid (hard to come by because it is an ingredient in the process of making cocaine) to fill them, we will add four more that will bring the amperage up to 1000 or more so we should be able to go longer without wind. It is a wonderful system as long as it keeps whirling! All the construction workers have learned to keep their eyes on the turbine up on the hill. If it is whirling, they can plug the cement-mixer, the ceramic cutters, the drills, etc. into that system. If the blades are still, out comes the generator. Pray for us to use this wonderful gift correctly! Judy
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