Lots of painting

Our church will have their first service at the new building next Sunday. This week every afternoon we have been busy down there cleaning and painting. It is always fun to paint in public as people always stop and watch. I must have been told 10 times that they have never seen a women painting before and that they didn't know women could paint :D. I had quite the crowd at one point! They whole church has been a huge help and it is great to see everyone working together. We still have a lot to do as well as moving all the chairs, podium, benches, over. I am looking forward to Sunday though.

Painting...

more painting...

Jake has been busy at HHCH getting lots of little projects finished up. The chicken coops are now plastered and all we need to put up is the run. He and Norbert (with the help of the older boys) made a cement bench for the kids to do their clothes washing on. Also he has put up 6 clothes lines pole and two bathrooms have been tiled.  

Our first 50 chickens

 We had to keep them in a small warm place for the first few days. They have a lot more room now and have about doubled in size already. They will be ready to eat in 4 weeks.

 The chicken coops

The farm is doing great. You can see corn and beans growing in the back. The kids are doing a great job of looking after it and keeping it weed free. 

New church building

We had some very exciting news this week. As I have mentioned before, the church plant we are helping out with, CCB, is bursting out of its little walls (about 90 people). By the end of service on Sundays, there is usually no chairs left (a good problem, I know!). Well, Pastor Titus and Jake have been looking all over town for a good size meeting hall... we have found a few but rent is pretty high. A couple of months ago there was one that we were really interested in and then as we were negotiating someone else came and took it. We were pretty bummed as it was big, in a great location, and even had extra rooms for children's church. Well last week, the landlord called us and said that that deal fell through and asked if we were still interested. So we went and signed the contract today and it is a go! It is certainly a step of faith as rents will be more than triple of what we are paying now but we are believing as the church grows, so will the offering. It is really exciting to be moving into anther hall, we have had to delay outreach meetings simply because we didn't have space for new converts. I will get two rooms for Children's church, YES!! It really isn't easy teaching 12 year-olds with three-year-olds at the same time so now we can have two classes. The building also has an office for the pastor and a room for a student pastor to live in to keep an eye on the place. It does have a lot of work to be done, cleaning, painting, electrical things, etc., so the whole church will be busy for the next couple of weeks. We are hoping to be in by the 29th of this month. Praise the Lord!

The outside of the buildings... lots of parking space too.

Inside the building, it will comfortably seat 500

This weeks goings on...

Happy Mother's day to all the mothers out there! The electric was off all day so I didn't think I would get to speak to my mum. Finally came back on a few hours ago so I could skype her. Nothing like having kids to appreciate your mum! Jake and the boys made me breakfast (breakfast burritos, yum!) and they boys made me cards and gave me M&Ms, what else could a mum want?

Staying pretty busy these last couple of weeks; homeschooling, kid's club, sunday school, church meetings, hanging out with the kids at HHCH, etc. But just four more weeks of home schooling and then onto summer school. I'm looking forward to it! We are also planning a week at the beach late June, REALLY looking forward to that!!

We now have 37 bunnies and 10 full grown rabbits at HHCH, what can I say, they're breeding like rabbits! We also now have 50 three week old chicks. The children's home farm is doing great; corn, soya beans, black beans, and groundnut are all sprouting up. It is exciting to see all these things taking off.

Some of our rabbits

The new chickens

The boys got hair cuts on Saturday, their hair was getting super long. Seth still didn't want to cut his hair but he was having trouble combing it!

Jude's first time at the barber

This a pig we slaughtered last week to make sausage. She was really sweet though and Brindie our dog really liked her. 

Mother's Day today, we went out for lunch after church. A super nice day!

Our little clan!