Two. Weeks.
Can you believe it?
TWO WEEKS from today I will be in the JFK airport in NYC getting giant hugs from my parents!!!
Sometimes it’s hard to grasp that it’s already been 11 months… and sometimes it feels like it’s been more like 11 years.
But anyways. Ministry this month has been pretty great.
The main need they had was painting in a school that they are currently building. They want to have a mural in each classroom. Several previous teams painted in a few but the majority of the classrooms still needs murals.
Being the apparent “artist” or so they call me, of the team I was basically put in charge of this project. Which, I can easily say I have loved. It’s been a lot of fun and we’ve got this group of boys who likes to just come and sit and watch us paint in the afternoons when school gets out.
So far, we have been able to complete 2 murals and have a third in the works. Though we have run into some complications. Since the building is still in construction the wall we are working on has been having water seep through the cement from somewhere we can’t find. With the wall being wet the paint isn’t adhering well and you can basically rub or peel it right off.
So my next project is try to find some sealant and see if that would do the trick, or to get a mass amount of paint thinner and sadly clean up what we have already done on the wall.
I hate to take a picture that the kids have seen away so there is a smaller section of the wall where we could restart the painting but hopefully it does not come to that.
We also have some painting projects at the hospital that Becca has been heading up. Painting signs in both English and Hindi and room numbers. This usually takes place in the morning while I am working on some design projects for GEMS.
I was asked one day if I could help them fix their brochure and my first thought was sure why not? Well, the next day when I cam in they gave me 10 brochures that they wanted me to combine into ONE. Now, from a design standpoint, at least in my perspective, you cannot take 10 pages of information and put it on one page. It’s just not possible to simplify it that much.
So at this point what I have come up with, though it took a bit of convincing, is the creation of a small booklet with all of the brochures included. As well as one very basic brochure lacking any detail at all that basically lists their different types of ministry but they really wanted that brochure.
So yea besides all that we get to play with kids and have a bible study at the Polio Childrens Home. We are in a great location and crazy enough we are heading into our LAST week of ministry. It’s gonna fly and likely be rather heartwrenching as it all ends but its gonna be great. And I’m gonna enjoy each and every minute of it.
