Starting the Second Building - Poured Foundation Walls

This past week, in addition to all of the shenanigans related to the arrival of the container of food, my hard working family managed to pour concrete foundation walls on the second building on the Missionary Ventures property. (I can, without tooting my own horn, call my family "hard working," as I was not involved at all in either the construction work or the food rescue. But, I am the one who blogs about it. ;-) )

The building we have been working on for several months is a team house. It will have two large bunk rooms, each with a large bathroom, and long porches along two sides of the building. This will be used for housing groups, such as the teams which visit us from the states, and also for the students who come to the Bible Training School.

This second building is what we call "intern housing." In the past, we have sometimes had young (or occasionally not-so-young) people stay and work with the ministry for several months. For these semi-permanent workers, it will be nice to have somewhat more private housing. This building will have three smaller bedrooms, each with it's own bath, and some large communal porches. Since our own children have started reaching adulthood, and have been choosing to stay on to work with the ministry for a time, we will also use this building for housing our home-grown interns.

This particular building will have a large amount of dirt backfilled against this wall. To provide the necessary extra strength, the wall was poured, instead of built from block.

The top of that wall will be floor level for the building. Once again, we have situated the building to make the most of a fabulous view.

It's exciting to see this progress taking place! Once these two buildings are habitable, we plan to move the family onto the property to live, while we construct the additional ministry buildings, and our own home.