Thursday, October 9, 2008

Host Missionary Website

GARY AND PATTY HEINEY are the missionaries hosting the JRA team.
http://www.thevenezuelareport.com/

Team Update



1 – Multi-Purpose Building

Finished welding and screwing in the metal panels

Starting to install the windows.

Pouring cement for two patios tomorrow.

Poured cement 2nd floor

Poured cement for the landing for the stairs

Any extra cement will be used for some roads in the compound


2 – Apartment

Laying out metal walls.

Electrical done

Putting up drywall


3 – Sidewalk

DONE WITH IT – What it took them 8 months to do on the other side, took our Team 2 days to do!


4 – Orphan Homes

Exterior of the first two houses done

Primed exterior of third house today

Then start interiors


5 – Chicken Tabernacle (Okay, really a chicken barn, but they are having fun calling it this!)

Roof was completed

Chickens are expensive in Venezuela and this represents an investment/income for them.


Saturday, October 4, 2008

Day 1: Travel




Leaving Springfield.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Venezuela 2008



The building that we will be working on is a multipurpose building for the orphange and a church. This is the church that the youth of JRA helped start. It is a prefab metal building and will be a church, offices, classrooms, medical clinic for the community, and 2 apartments for workers from the states who come.

Only the frame is up for now. The team will pour the floor for the second story, possibly put in windows and doors, and pour some porches on it. Other projects at the same site will include sidewalks, sheet rock, electricity, etc.

Prayer Requests: Health and safety for the team and the missionary, souls to be saved, and house parents for the orphanage.