Grand Goave Day 5: A Dirty, Sweaty Bunch of Baptists (and 2 Methodists)

Big Daddy on the wall

Today started off with more of the same: mortar and wire cage duty. By lunch we were tired but better off than yesterday.

Fearless Leader (Lamar) Breaking Rocks

After lunch came the pain: buckets of 

rubble. Basically, think of a bucket brigade, only instead of water, we had a bunch of rocks in each bucket. Big Daddy poured the rocks into the cages, Jonathan lifted the buckets up and everyone else passed. Several members switched out sharing the tricky job of placing a bucket to be filled while simultaneously lifting a filled one up to be passed. We felt like Lucy at the conveyor belt once 2 Haitians began shoveling into the buckets! It was hard to keep up with them!

Bucket Brigade

After an afternoon of bucket work, we nearly filled one long wall. Tomorrow will be a long day with more of the same. We are all tired and weary, and expect extremely sore muscles to set in by the morning. Several of us have cuts and bruises. We appreciate your prayers for rest tonight and strength tomorrow.

I guess we know what's for dinner!

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:28-30 NIV) - Curtis C.