Moving Forward

In the last week, the construction of the new kitchen/dining room and nursery at the children's home took a big step forward with the pouring of the second floor. Thanks to the hard work from the local guys working on the project, plenty of volunteers from the Cuatro Christian Church, and the 12-man work team from Australia, the pour is finished and now they are working up to the roof. Even the children's home kids got involved in the building of their own family dining room - the nine oldest boys ditched their shirts and got in the bucket brigade line, helping for hours to pass buckets of cement. It was a long day, starting the pour early in the morning and working into the night, but a lot of help got it done. It is exciting to see this much-needed project move forward. Not only will it improve the way we can all gather as a family for meals with our growing number of children, and allow for our nursery kids to be back on-site at the children's home, but the completion of this project will be critical in finalizing some things with our accreditation for adoption process. A visitor from the Department of Social Welfare and Development was with us for two days this last week, going over every detail at the home in order to approve this additional accreditation. Things look very favorable - they will just wait until the construction is done to give us the thumbs-up. Thanks for praying with us for funds to come in to finish! DJ Langefels Director of Child Development (New Faith Family Children's Home)