Our Strong Tower: Work Weekend 14

Monday, October 15, 2012

Work Weekend 14

A lot changed this week. We left Sunday night thinking we would not pour cement this weekend. Thanks to Maria, Facio, and Alfredo, we were able to have inspection on Tuesday. John, Debbie, and I worked Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to fix the rebar, so we could pour Saturday. God is so good. It was a rainy week and yet we were able to get a lot of work done this week. Master's College students came out to our job site and worked three days. They worked hard and accomplished a lot. They back filled over 8 houses plumbing. Everyone appreciated how hard they worked.

On Saturday, we started with our safety meeting on working with concrete. We then divided into three different teams: concrete, rebar, kickers. The trucks started to arrive and we stayed busy for a long time. Trucks came one after another. No breaks until it was all poured. We poured lot 6, 9, 12, and 13. Here is our weekend in pictures.

Alfredo and Naty happy about there house being poured. Below are pictures of Master's College students working.

Below are pictures of the guys moving the hose to the next house. They were called hosers.

Brandon and Patricia in their house.

On Sunday, we started to workin on the next four and prepare the four we just poured for slab. So we did rebar, bolts, removed forms, and cleaned up the job site. Gary, Sal, Dave, and Linda came out to help us. Leticia's family came out to help rebar her house.

Thank you to everyone that came out this week and weekend to help us. We appreciate you. This week was a good reminder of God is in control. We thought there was no way we would pour this weekend. Praise God!

Proverbs 16:2-4

²All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight,
But the Lord weighs the motives.
³Commit your works to the Lord
And your plans will be established.

Proverbs 16:9

⁹The mind of man plans his way,
But the Lord directs his steps.

Prayer Request:

1) Strength and health. Everyone is tired

2) Wisdom on how to balance everything we are doing.

3) Praise we got 4 houses poured.

4) Motivation and energy to get the next 8 houses poured.

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