MOZAMBIQUE 2010 - A Time To Build

Lichinga, Mozambique
Saturday, March 27, 2010
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Building a Home
About a month ago, the Lord released us to build a small home next to the Bible School at the IRIS Ministries base here in Lichinga. We have just started breaking ground on it. It will be in the shape of an oval and is very inexpensive to build because we are using burnt mud bricks in the construction. I just got all of the piping done for our plumbing in the bathroom and kitchen. We are currently working on the septic tank and the foundation of our oval house, as well as a small storage shed for us and a larger garage to lock up our evangelism motorbikes, bicycles and Jesus film equipment. The house will cost under $10,000 to build, and we are doing it in phases. Thankfully, we had saved some money while still in the U.S. over a year ago, so we haven’t needed to use our normal monthly support, which we have been using approximately 90% of for ministry; i.e. the construction of the church in Assumane, evangelism materials, Bibles in Portuguese, etc. We will keep you updated in its’ progress.

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Our plot of land near the Bible School........Pile of burnt mud bricks for construction
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Victo digging the foundation..................Salomao laying bricks for the foundation
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Christian cutting pipes for plumbing.............Plumbing buried and ready for use
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Corner foundation of evangelism garage..............Luciano digging the septic tank
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Church of Assumane Construction Update
We have been making real strides in the construction of our new church building and children’s ministry center in Assumane. We are close to being halfway done with the foundation of the children’s ministry center, which is a much more complicated building. The foundation of the church building has been completed for a few weeks and we are waiting for the large burnt bricks to build in between all of the posts. We are also about halfway finished with a caretaker’s home adjacent to the church property, where Lucia will stay to be close to the church family and watch over the church property. We also have a huge praise report: We needed to purchase a construction license as we are using rebar for the new buildings. We found out later that they couldn’t give us the license unless we also paid for legalizing the land which we were given, which in the end would cost us around $1,300.00, including the construction license. Last week we they issued us the construction license after we paid approximately 1/4 of the legalization cost. So praise the Lord! Things are going forward!
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Christian Young

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New church foundation near grass church.....Children's ministry center foundation

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Children's ministry center foundation...........Caretaker's house adjacent to church