Week 63

We started Saturday morning with our morning meeting.  Facio updated us on where we were with inspections and subcontractors.  He then told us we would be meeting with Phil after first break to look at our choices for flooring, cabinet colors, and counter tops.   We then went to work on where we left off on Sunday.

Debbie's house getting roofed.

Brandon and Patricia's front porch getting finished.

Steve and Maria's house

Our home

Here are two tile choices, 1 cabinet, and all the counter tops

 We have until next week to decide.  The counter tops have been the hardest for me to decide.

Facio helping Jacob digging the trenches for water lines.

 After lunch, Toby taught Debbie and I how to install siding on lot 9.

John, Steve, Paul, and Brandon working on lot 9's porch.

Debbie's roof

Siding going up.

Debbie cutting the siding.

Deena, Debbie, and I installing the siding.

Pat and Paul installing the boards on the ceiling of the porch. (lot 9)

 Debbie's house

Alfredo working on the siding on his gable ends.

Steve and Maria's front porch columns wrapped.

This is how far we got with siding.

The long trench Jacob had to dig around our house.

Our house waiting for dry wall to be put on this week.

Slowly we are making progress each week.  We are looking forward to getting the exteriors done, so we can move on to the interior of the homes. 

Prayer Requests:

1) Wisdom for Facio how to lead our group and teach us
2) The subcontractors continue to come out when we need them
3) Health and Safety.
4) Debbie, Deena, and I that we learn how to put siding up and can do it quickly.

This past week we celebrated my birthday.  The gift I wanted was to go to our home and write Bible verses on the studs.  So after dinner, we headed to the house.  Everyone wrote their favorite verses on different studs.  We had to use the light from our cell phones to see what we were writing.  This was a great way to end my birthday. I love the idea that someday someone will open up the walls of our home and know that this house was a gift from God.  He has blessed us way beyond what I could have even wished for.  It is so exciting to see the colors the house will be, the flooring, the cabinets, and counter tops.  Building this house has been a very hard, many hours of labor, but worth it because it comes from God.  This morning during my devotion time I read Psalm 127, it was a great reminder of this.

Psalm 127

 

Prosperity Comes from the Lord.

 

127 Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.
² It is vain for you to rise up early,
To retire late,
To eat the bread of painful labors;
For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep.

³ Behold, children are a gift of the Lord,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.
⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.
⁵ How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them;
They will not be ashamed
When they speak with their enemies in the gate.