Roof is up!

Talk about a busy three days. It only took three days for from 12 to 20 people to raise 14 rafters up onto the walls of the church. It was a great time to spend more time with some of the guys that we have been helping us with language, as well as some of the builders that have been working on the church since before we arrived. The builders are also the elders of the church plant that this church planted about seven kilometers away. Some of these guys walk the 7km every morning and every evening. It is humbling when at times I have complained about the just over 1km that Crystal and I have to walk. God did bless us with a cooler weather though. The day we started raising the rafters we were delayed by a down pour of rain for the morning. In Swahili rafters are called kenches. In the next couple of days they will be putting up the fotos (support beams that space the rafters and that are used to attach the metal roof.

As mentioned earlier, the previous weekend we were at Melaba were we were invovled with an evangelistic campaign that the church we are helping put on. It was a great weekend, though the choir needed to preservere with out any water, for bathing or drinking, which explains why when the last service was over and the buses arrived to return to Bukoba, the Africans moved faster than I've ever seen Africans move.

Continue to pray for us and for them as we finish our last week here in Bukoba and begin our journey to Sudan.