Men from Annapolis

 

Early this morning a group of 10 men left our house after spending a week here.  They were all members of Annapolis Evangelical Presbyterian Church.  I don't think I've ever spent a week living in the same house as 11 men (counting Benedict).  Actually, it was a lot of fun and they helped us in so many ways.  In 2 days they got the walls up to the ring beam for the next cottage.  They began work on a building up near the road that will provide toilet facilities for the restaurant and the school.  And they:  hooked up the hose to our dryer so we can now dry clothes inside (we need this badly right now), made 6 sets of shelves for the 3 house mothers to have one for boys and one for girls to keep their clothes on, they put more shelves in our pantry, installed a water filter in our sink, built 3 large sets of shelves for the book store, and a variety of small tasks. They did lunch play duty with the children at school, read books to them at night, played soccer, spun the kids around, and were touched by the sweet children we have here.  This was the first group that ever put together some of the jigsaw puzzles we have, actually 3 in a week.  We look forward to seeing many of them again in Africa.