Monday night

Today was a good day of work at the orphan care center. We did a lot of wood work. All day I sanded strips of wood that will be used for moulding around the windows. Most of this was done in a room that Vernie had rigged up the fluorescent lights to connect directly to our source of electricity. We are connecting wires directly to where the power comes in at the pole. There is no meter or box yet but the power can be tapped into nevertheless. At night, there are some lights that connect to it for security. We connect that wire to a transformer that converts the 220vac to 110vac so that we can run all the American power tools. We actually had to hardwire the lights to the wire that plugged in the transformer. Definitely, not pretty. But lots of electrical tape.

In the afternoon we had a very strong storm. The power went out a couple of times and you could tell that the voltage must have been fluctuating. Every time we used one or two of the power tools at the same time, the lights would go out. This must mean that the tools were causing the voltage to drop to something less than needed by the lights. The storm was over pretty fast but by then it was time to secure everything before Bob picked us up.

We came back and had dinner and Bob and I walked back over to the cyber café. Its seems that every time we do, I am amazed at the sheer chaos in the driving in the city. As a driver or pedestrian, you can’t let your guard down for a second. While we were there, the rains came again. When it slowed down, we walked back to the guest house. But now its 9pm and its still raining. All I can think is how bad is the road to the center going to be tomorrow. It was very bad this afternoon after the storm.

We had our devotion tonight from Philipians 2:5-11. We discussed how we need to follow Jesus’ pattern for humility. I thought about a line from a song by the Newsboys that says, “who am I, that my God should die for me”. Imagine that, God loves us that much. What a praise! And a hope.