Terry, Cindy, and Sam Visit in July

In July our good friends Terry and Cindy Hammock, and Sam Bonney came to see us and help us out with lots of odds and ends projects. They were a real blessing from the Lord to us. It was Sam's first trip outside the U.S. and he really enjoyed it (at least that's what he said!). Besides all the work projects, both Terry and Sam shared their testimonies of God's grace in their salvation with our Lozi workers. Terry also taught in one of the nearby villages on the historic Five Solas:

1. Scripture alone
2. (By) Grace alone
3. (Through) Faith alone
4. (In) Christ alone
5. (To) The glory of God alone

Terry used this history lesson to survey and explain these five distinctive, foundational doctrines (or teachings) that have been passed down to us from guys like Martin Luther and others from the Protestant Reformation. These doctrines are not taught in the churches in the area and we felt it was important for the Lozi people to see the difference from Scripture. He reviewed these lessons again with our workers during our noon devotion time.

Here are some pics of what we all worked on:



Packing the trucks and getting ready to go.



Nathan building a bench for the shower. Alicia helping. Finished bench looks great!

Cindy, Steph, and Joyce dug trenches and planted trees between fixing meals.










Sam and the crew building and installing a solar hot water heater. There's roughly 150 meters of black 20mm pipe in a coil. For about four hours a day the water is scalding hot.












Mounting the solar water heater.









Working on a compost bin.















Building an adobe oven.


















Preparing square foot garden beds.










Laying in gray water lines that drain from sinks and showers into mulch beds around trees and shrubs.