100th Post

Here's a month or two worth of updates...oh, and it's our hundredth blog, yeah for us.

We had to make some renovations to the house that we moved into.  The kitchen had rotten wood cabinets with a few residents.  We didn't get a picture with the wood cabinets, but here are a couple pictures after the cabinets were torn out (which included some comical kicking and screaming by our Liberian friend when he came across the rats).

 We decided to just put in concrete counters and shelves.  Less places for rodents and roaches to hide.  We moved our kitchen down to the laundry room for a couple weeks while the work was being done.  Here are a couple pictures post renovations.

The outside needed a little work too.  We had to replace the metal "rogue" bars that protect the windows.  After that was done we repainted...

I am sorry to all of my UW friends.  I didn't realize we were painting it Wazzu colors until we were done.  I am so...ashamed.

 One of the other projects that is going on is the completion of an orphanage.  Samaritan's Purse was asked to complete an orphanage that was started a couple years ago but has been sitting due to the owner's lack of funds.  I've gone out a couple times to take pictures of the project for the donor.

Here are a couple neighbor kids checking out the progress.  The older girl has a jug of palm oil.  A very commonly used oil in Liberia from palm nuts.  Just about the worst oil there is when it comes to artery clogging.

The walls were done when we started but the building wasn't back-filled.  The last couple days we have been back-filling using wheel-barrels and "head pans", metal pans that are used to transport concrete for block and plaster work usually.

Last week I was able to get some old pictures of the ELWA hospital from former missionaries and MK's.  It has been fun going through these old pictures.  Although, sometimes I think things haven't changed much in Liberia.

And finally, this week we posted a signboard on the new hospital site showing the proposed layout.  Here I am explaining things to John Vokpo and Samuel Minikollie, two of ELWA's security supervisors.