It´s been more than three years since we started
building a missionary house in the back yard of ‘The Sower House’. This house
will serve as living space for long-term and short-term missionaries who come
to work with us at the community center. We can finally tell you that we´re in
the final stage of this building project!
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| Starting the construction work in 2010 |
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| At the end of 2010 |
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| The missionary house in 2011 |
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| 2012 |
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| June of 2013 |
In the beginning of June, a small group of young
people from a church in Pennsylvania, USA, came on a mission trip to Brazil to
help us out with the finishing touches of this big building project. They
worked really hard during a whole week and were able to finish all the external
painting work of the missionary house. With great results!
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| Great results! |
Thanks to a very generous donation from my (Dot)
church in Holland, we´ve already started furnishing the part of the house that
will serve short-term volunteers. We´ve been busy buying lots of supplies for
the house: from a bunk bed and refrigerator to curtains, cups, plates and pans!
It´s been wonderful to see God provide everything we need to improve the
structure of the project and we´re very grateful to Him for giving us the opportunity
to create a nice living space, so we´re able to receive well the people who are
willing to come work with us and serve the kids and families we attend at ‘The
Sower House’. In October we hope to welcome the first short-term
volunteers in the new house!
The bath room ready to be used!
Working hard to get the kitchen and living room ready too
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| Brand new bunk bed ready to be used! |
But the building work around ‘The Sower House’ doesn´t
stop at this point… There are still many other things to do! Our next project
is focused on turning the concrete back yard of ‘The Sower House’ into a nice
playground area for the kids to enjoy. In the neighborhood where these kids
live, there´s not even one park, square or playground area where they can run
around, play and meet each other in a space properly developed for them. So
it´ll be really great to be able to offer them at least a small playground area
to safely play in at the community center.
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| Our concrete back yard |
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| Enough space for a nice play ground! |
We´ve also started to do some building work in ‘The
Sower House´s’ main kitchen area. We would like to improve and enlarge the
kitchen structure and create a big, well equipped kitchen that will not only
serve for preparing food and snacks for the kids´ program, but will also serve
as a good place for giving cooking and baking classes and workshops for moms
and women from the community.
Seu Luiz working hard to put two new windows in the kitchen wall
The two new windows in the kitchen wall
So there are many challenges still ahead of us and we
know that we depend on God´s provision in order to one day see all these
desires become reality, desires that are focused on better serving the kids and
families God has put on our path.
God bless you!
Love,
Caio & Dot
