of their faith on "the rock" and not on sand. Lavumisa CLC is also setting it's foundation on the rock of our faith, Jesus Christ; but we're also using sand... literally! The walls of the church, the pastor's home and the children's homes will all be built using sandbags filled with sand and dirt.
Earlier this spring, some folks from Potter's Wheel church set the footers and foundations and erected the steel frames for the buidlings on our ICBC site.
When our team arrived, the next step was to put up the walls of the church. The general contractor/construction manager we are using for the project suggested using sandbags instead of soil block, which we had originally planned to use. While this "technology" has been used in other parts of Africa, it is new to Swaziland. We trialed using sandbags when building the 3rd children's home at Hawane CLC, and it appears to be a workable process. So,this entire week, the team will be hard a work filling, stacking and covering sandbags. Once the bags are stacked, they are wrapped with a fine wire mesh and then coveed with mud - a typical building material used for in homes in Swaziland. The photos below are an example of the "sandbag technology" (these are pictures from a third children's home that is being built at Hawane CLC)
It will be exciting to see the progress the team is able to make during the course of this week The goal is to get as much of the church completed as possible. Please pray that God will help them be efficient and quick and that they would build a quality place in which to worship our God.
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