It will be a three story building with new classrooms, vocational training rooms, and "apartments." It is Kim and Steve Puffpaff's hope that when the new building is complete, they can switch the organization of the children from separation by age group into smaller family groups, each with a house mother and a house father.
So, we had to lay rebar and pour rocks and cement into these rooms while the hired workers leveled the floor and made sure we didn't mess anything up! The home has recently acquired a couple of small cement mixers and a bobcat-like-thing, which helped the task a lot. Before, they had to mix cement by hand in wheel barrows.
We basically just formed assembly lines to pass buckets full of concrete down the line.
By the end of the day, we were very tired, but we felt buff!
I also got to work with Pastor Ken and various odd jobs. He was the resident handy man of the week. They had him build medicine cabinets, build bookshelves, replace vanities and plumbing, fix floors, etc. I was able to help him with the bookshelves and vanities. I actually helped build something!
The work was so rewarding that we hardly thought of it as work. It was really awesome to be doing something that you know will soon benefit others. It was great!
