Pastor Rindle's New Home

Yesterday we started building a house on this beautiful property in one of the villages near by. It is about a three minute walk to the ocean. It is in a valley with mountians behind it. We are builidng it for a pastor. He is a pastor at a church in the village. He is in seminary and is getting married June 26. We are building this house for his new wife and him. He was so funny and so grateful.

Pastor Rindles

When we arrived in the morning, this was a blank slab.

This was a Haitan who came by and helped us out. He was probably about 60. He had the most amazing feet and hands...the kind that you know have a million stories.

At lunch time, the kids surrounded Brian and I and we were getting them to teach us some Creole and they told us their numbers in English.

The wood was so thick...it actually took this awesome stance to be able to nail it in.

The pastor was so grateful, he came and gave us sugar cane. He showed us how to eat it. It basically is like sucking on a sweet stick.

We walked to the beach on lunch break. Brian is on the far right. It's beautiful and hard to imagine that such poverty surrounds this or really that it surrounds such poverty.

This was the house by the end of the day...all the walls were up. We also accumulated many more helpers by the end of the day. (Brian is in the back on the left and I am in the front on the right).