Luke and John, along with some young guys from church have been working on building a stage. There is a conference planned for July 5 - 7 in the village of Mwakizega. A team of 85 Burundians are coming to minister and preach at this evangelistic conference.
At first it looked like we'd be able to rent a stage, but when they heard it was out of town they were not willing to rent it to us. So Luke decided he'd build one. That began the long process of figuring out all the details of it: coming up with a portable design, figuring how many boards and bolts would be needed, making arrangements to buy boards and have them delivered, and even looking into buying a machine that can plane the hundreds of boards.
So it all finally came together and the five men have been working hard since Monday. Looks like they won't be getting a rest soon, this is a big project and the planing machine can only barely keep ahead of the eager crew.
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| Planing with the "new" machine. |
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| Putting it together with bolts. |
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| Testing how sturdy it is. This is only 1/10 of the size. |
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| Lots and lots of boards! |
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