helpful americans

last week thembalitsha were blessed to welcome an amazing team from the infocus church augusta georgia, USA, the team worked on various projects, including graceland pre-school, thembacare grabouw and the school of hope. on thursday evening we had them stay over at the village of hope, it was great to get to know pastor brent and his team, they made a real impression on us and we hope we did the same.

friday morning we woke early for morning prayers, which was a truly wonderful time, then we had a quick orientation around the village of hope and finally split into different teams to complete work around the farm. the girls took it upon themselves to do some much needed deep cleaning in the new kitchen and bathrooms of the childcare unit and guys split into two teams, one started to put the new (new to us) tool shed/workshop up, whilst the others created a dam in the 'stream' so we could sink some concrete rings which will become the sump for us to pump water up the hill to the holding tanks to allow us to irrigate the land.....man this was a mission.........the four rings, of which i procured from a guy in town who just happened to have them left over from a job, weighed a ton and we had to 'roll' these down the hill through the pine wood to the 'cliff' overhanging the stream, we then set up a winch to lower these into the water....see our flickr account for more photos...man we wish that all the teams we receive on the village of hope will be as pumped as these guys....thanks guys..