Friday in Yei

So it was a day off today because we are having a church opening on Sunday (usually we will have Sunday's off - but we did a bit of work anyway. Here are some photos from the day as we drove out to see some more churches.

Downtown (D town for those of you in Pittsburgh) Yei:

Here is inside one of the old churches:

Here is a church in the beginning stages of being built with the foundation layed out:

Like I said before, churches have to collect several materials: two kinds of sand, one from the river, the other from a pit. These two are mixed together for block making. A church will make there own blocks (around 1000) but we have someone there to assist them. They also need to collect stone and break it into small pieces for the foundation. The last thing they need is mirrum (a reddish dirt), that is used to help level the foundation before the slab is poured. Here are some photos of these materials (top left are blocks, top right is river sand in the front and pit sand in the back, bottom left is river sand, blocks, and mirrum, botttom right is stone):

And here is one nearing completion with Jeff and Peter (site manger):

have a great day,

phil