The "calm before the storm". This photo is before the group began their demolition work.
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This is the group shot as we sat down for orientation.
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Here's a shot of the group at the Quinta Mazatlan.
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We also visited the Museum of South Texas History.
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This is Steve & Kris Williams at Caro's Restaurant.
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Wednesday night we held services under the lean-to.
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Kris Williams was our pianist for the week.
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Shelly and Bekah work on washing the ministry bus.
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Now that it's clean the girls also "seal" all the vinyl on the bus.
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Shelly and Steve are working to clear out aloe from the fence line.
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We saw a variety of spiders this week. This one is in the yard (in the aloe bed) and is a wolf spider.
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Geneva learned how to make sloppy joe for a group of 19.
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Bekah and Katelyn cleaning out the breeze way.
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Melissa and Geneva work on laundry.
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The first task in demolishing the building is removing the interior ceiling.
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Next they had to remove all of the electrical wiring.
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This is a good shot of the chimney "before". Aaron is preparing to take the top off.
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Halfway done demolishing the chimney.
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The roof is gone and the interior wall is beginning to come down.
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Brother Chad stepped on a nail and needed to go for a Tetnus shot.
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Steve and Stephen work on demolishing the interior wall.
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Here you can see the roof is gone and the exterior wall is also coming down.
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This is Ryan and Tyler swinging sledgehammers on the exterior wall.
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Each day we would have devotions as a group. This shot shows Tyler Williams giving this day's devotional.
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We saw this pig on the way to Loma de La Cruz one evening.
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This is a shot of an altar on the Loma de la Cruz.
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Here's a group shot from the top of Loma de la Cruz.
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While at the top of the hill we saw this tarantula.....the first for this week.
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Katelyn and Geneva are working on removing the rust from the breezeway gate.
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Steve Williams attacks the "Devil Bush".
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Here's a finished shot of this bush that has about a million thorns.
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We were able to save both of the windows in the old building.
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Some of the debris can be seen in the middle of the demolition.
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Jorge Rios arrives with the dump truck to prepare for removing the debris.
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We had to load all of the wood and "non-Block" material by hand.
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Before the outer walls could come down we had to remove all of the rafters by hand.
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With the rafters down the outer wall began to come down piece by piece.
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Everybody had a turn swinging the sledgehammers. This is Kris Williams demolishing an exterior wall.
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Jorge arrives with the Backhoe to begin loading the debris.
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Most of the building is gone. The 2x6 header that attached to the garage is still there, as is an interior wall. The debris is slowly disappearing.
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More debris is gone, as is that header and the interior wall.
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Bekah learned a few of Melissa's recipes while helping in the kitchen.
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Katelyn, Kris and Shelly worked hard on landscaping the ministry sign.
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This shot shows Geneva helping as well.
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Kris and Shelly painted the interior doors, as well as the interior side of the exterior door, in the casita.
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Shelly prunes the dead limbs from one of the lime trees. She eventually did every fruit tree in the orchard.
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Steve & Kris Williams and us at the Roma Bluffs river overlook with Mexico in the background.
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One morning we did a roadside trash pickup in a nearby neighborhood. We managed to fill more than 75 30-gallon trash bags.
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The group is stamping and folding tracts to get them ready for distribution.
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Here the group is filling the door-hangers with the tracts and other information.
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Here's a shot of the customized informational tract about the roadside cleanup that was done.
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The finished door-hanger.
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Kris and some teens are door-knocking to pass out the tracts and other info.
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More of the group as they work their way through the neighborhood.
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This is the second tarantula of the week. This one was found in our back yard while the teens were playing some evening basketball.
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Sunday morning we held the first services on what will be the spot for the new sanctuary.
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Braden & I sang special music for morning service.
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Shelly, Valerie, Oralia, Selma and Kris after the morning service.
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The week proved to be a long and tiring one for everyone.
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Sunday evening we held services under the lean-to again.
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The group from Columbia Road sang 2 songs for special music in the evening service.
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Brother Rorigo sang special music as well.
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Bro. Constancio (to the left) preached and Bro. Hector translated for the group from Ohio.
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Geneva and Bekah spray painted the gate of the breezeway black.
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Here they are almost finished.
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Tyler works on trimming weeds around the property.
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Here's a finished shot of the ministry sign with Kris and Katelyn.
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Katelyn learned how to make pancakes this week. Specifically, 102 pancakes.
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The guys are working on digging out the driveway to get ready for the gravel to be delivered.
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The gravel arrives and is ready to be spread.
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Now the guys are busy spreading the gravel in the driveway.
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More spreading of the gravel.
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The driveway is finished.
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Stephen is working on chipping out the final row of block with a chisel and hammer.
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Katelyn is sweeping off the concrete after all of the work is done.
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Preparations for Hurricane Alex are underway. We constructed a temporary 8' wall out of the old ceiling plywood and put tarps over that.
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The wall is complete. Lord willing it will hold up to the storm.
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The week wasn't all about work. In the evenings the kids were able to relax and play some games. Here they are playing a game of Scattegories.
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Another favorite past time was playing with Bo. Here Tyler and Corey Williams are taking a turn!
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