Jim Hack – Wednesday, August 3, 2016
We’ve
had another successful day in El Salvador.
We had a great time mixing concrete for the footings of the home for our
Habitat family. We also sifted sand to
use in the mason cement for laying blocks on Thursday (by the masons). We are very grateful to have the flat job
site we have! We went to see Steve
Becker’s group from Kewanee, who we worked with 2 years ago on Cristo Rey
Church in Santa Ana. What a mess his
site is! Not level at all, huge 25-foot
tall retaining wall needs to be built from rocks AFTER removing all the dirt to
make room for the wall. And, the dirt
needs to be delivered to the top of the hill to be used for fill. They also had to move the cinder blocks up
about a dozen steps after they were delivered to the street below. We feel very fortunate the have received the
build assignment we did – on a nice, flat lot.
Work site of the Steve Becker group from Kewanee, Illinois.
It
never fails to amaze me what wonderful people we have at Good Shepherd Lutheran
Church. This is my 6th time
coming to El Salvador for a build trip, and each time I think I can’t get
people who are any better. But, the good
Lord turns around and gives me a group that is again just awesome. We’ve all worked very hard and have been
blessed with many visitors to our work site from Habitat El Salvador which
gives us great encouragement to do this work for these magnificent people who,
like us, love our Savior and Lord. Thank
you, you wonderful people of Good Shepherd for giving us the opportunity to go
on this mission trip. Without your love
and support, there is no way it would be possible.
Jim Hack and Steve Becker, leader of the Kewanee group. We worked with them in 2014 on the Cristo Rey (Christ the King) Lutheran Church in Santa Ana.
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