Last year St. Paul UMC raised $20,000 to buy the land for Luz de Vida's new church building. In Bolivia there are no laws against squatters so the first thing they begin to build are perimeter walls for the property. I was told that this is also an essential part of Spanish architecture.
Last year the group from St. Paul UMC began building this wall. I could tell they were pleased to see the finishing touches that had been made.
The week before we got there a group of eight women from La Porte built the frame of the wall that you see here. Amazing!
We began on the third wall. The group dug a 50 yard long ditch that was 3 feet deep and 2 feet wide using a pick axe and some shovels. We took turns picking and shoveling. It was a great workout!
Then we filled the bottom of the ditch with huge heavy rocks as we mixed the concrete by using 3 buckets of sand and 2 buckets of rocks...water to taste...poured it into wheel barrow and over the rocks. This is a picture of Ashley and I shoveling sand into the buckets and then picking the 40 lb. buckets up and carrying them to the mixer. Again...great workout! The team work was amazing and inspiring!
Here is a close up of the magic!
Ashley and Katy and our beloved buckets! Whew we were dusty!
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