Teleios Ministry: MONDAY: THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION

Tony, Alex, and Floyd plot their destructive path

Today the team of Alex, Bonnie, Tony and Floyd let their destructive inner selves out. Well, not Bonnie, she cleaned up our mess. She reminded Floyd that she is well trained due to a life with him--picking up and cleaning up after him.

Our job today was taking out all the windows in the Baby Room and the Derrick Dormitory. That's a total of 18 windows and one door. All the windows are built into the walls. The only way to remove them is to BUST them out. All morning long, you could hear the sweet sounds of breaking glass, pounding on wood, and mortar flying everywhere. DUST was in the air. As a few pictures show. That's not a dirty camera that

YES this is the storage building at DBLCH now!

is dust.

BREAKING NEWS: Past teams and blog readers you would not believe the storage room. The organization is great!

Yes that's is dust and not a problem with the camera.
Thank you for the dusk masks!

We were joined in our destruction by Tony, Leonard, and Sadiki. We shared some special moments. Sadiki demonstrated the fine art of sledgehammering with a big piece of fire wood. Leonard after a hour or two was covered in dust. He joked with us, "I am becoming a Mzungu!" (white person). After lunch and washing off the dust, Leonard revealed, "He was back to his right color." All in English, great job English teachers of the past year. Even once, Bonnie could not stand it and started putting the hammer to the wall. She controlled the camera so we could not capture her destructive moment.

Last year, the Eastern Industrial team helped in replacing the old wood windows with aluminum windows with screens. The result was a dramatic drop in malaria and other illness this year. So, this year our small team tackled the remaining two dorms to be replaced with aluminum windows and the Baby Room gets a screen door.

Sadiki shows proper log sledgehammer techniques
Improvise is the name of the game

Here is the evidence of our labors. We finished by lunch time around 1 PM. No one could believe how fast we moved through those windows. OHHHH was it fun! Of course, we have a local team getting the windows frames ready for the aluminum windows.

We finished with mortar and brick all over us. In the afternoon, we could not seem to get going on another project. Destruction is hard, tiring work.

The First Window is OUT!

Tonight, at worship it was a little different. The times are changing at Daily Bread Life. The Bread of Life Secondary School students are now in the dorms there. Doreen left for Business college. Agrey and Chris are in technical college in Mbeya. Agnes and Teresia are finishing up a semester in Arusha area college. Think back on that first year as the orphans started coming. Now they are in colleges from one end of Tanzania to the other. Half of the original group are gone. A whole new group is emerging.

Leonard goes Mzungu on us!

After worship, Tony opens up a bag of candy. Mpeli joked, "Tony, you are going to kill their teeth before you leave." This provided a special moment for me, Floyd. Dr. Floyd taught Dr. Floyd learn how to unroll a Tootsie Roll. Unroll a roll for child and you will always be unrolling rolls, teach a child to unroll a Tootsie roll and you have a sticky mess but a happy little Dr. Floyd.

Thank you for your prayers.