Heading for Quito, Ecuador on August 24, 2009
Loading up the van for the 3 1/2 hour drive from Quito to Riobamba
We arrived at the job site.
We laid the block for the upstairs rooms in 2008. Another team came along and did the railing wall and put the roof on.
We unloaded 400 blocks this day. The last day we were there we had another 500 delivered.
This is one of the upstairs rooms that is being used for a children's Sunday School class
This is a downstairs room being used for Sunday School classes
Lucho and Greg hook up the hot water heaters for the downstairs rooms where we stayed
The bathroom in our room. The tile was added since 2008
Pastor Wilson and Pastor Mario from Riobamba put mirrors and lights up in the bathrooms while we were there
Each of the rooms we stayed has 4 triple bunkbeds!
Pastor Bruce, our team leader from Sun City Nazarene, cuts angle iron for the trusses
Hank working on the columns where the trusses will attach
a view of the second floor over the dining hall that we will be roofing
Jon Fischer, our missionary work coordinator, taught me to weld
Jon and I welded the braces that Pastor Bruce had cut and formed the trusses
Hank grinds the joints, Greg paints the finished product and Jon is on the ground welding a new one
Greg looking at his paint job
Welding up higher was much easier on the back!
Yes it really is me (John Chapman) welding
Hank grinding away
moving one of the trusses
David, Jessica, Pastor Mario, Nicole and Jairo
leveling the truss
Greg painting and painting and painting...
We then welded the purlins or correas together.
It took quite a few people to lift the trusses in place
around the corner and up
into place on one end
almost finished
great weather for working
up, up, up
a little higher
welding the purlins in place
and Jon welds the truss to the column
the right slope, the right level
putting a truss into place
a lot of welding
It looks great to have all the trusses in place (or most of them)
Krista, the 18 yr. old daughter of the missionary work coordinators, helps Hank to carry the steel upstairs that they had just cleaned.
welding purlins
and welding
Jon welding purlin joints....notice the yard down below on his right
All the purlins in place
looks great against the evening sky
with a touch of color thrown in by God
We put the trusses and purlins up on the small room to the right on the second floor
a new church site in another location in Riobamba
Another team will work on this church
Janeece and Mary (sisters) did most of the cooking for us
a market
is that a pig's head
We used the dining hall for cooking, eating and meeting
rest and nourishment
and fellowhip
Me and Jon taking a break
Sunday morning we attended the church at the front of the complex we were working on. This is the church that Pastor Wilson pastors.
Pastor Wilson
the congregation had more than tripled since last year
the locals had tiled the inside and painted the walls
Yoan led the worship team
Yoan had a gift for leading others in worship
the kids gave a couple of speeches and then presented each of the visiting team members with a rose
another group of kids did a choreographed number and then presented each of us on the team with an Ecuadorian woven bag
they did a super job
some of our team in worship
Pastor Bruce gave the message in both Spanish and English
the kids were dismissed to Children's church after the morning worship
there were over 50 kids there
I had the privilege of handing out candy to the kids after service was over
Greg, Miguel and myself
this is how that ceiling/floor is supported for the concrete pour
Pastor Bruce bending rebar
Some teens from Pastor Mario's Christian school came and helped
the teens tied rebar for the ceiling/floor that would become the room for the secuirty guard to live
Pastor Wilson, the pastor of the church on the property, cutting rebar
Pastor Wilson and Yoan (Joe-ahn), a seminary student
Pastor Marcos
Pastor Marcos, an indigenous Quichua pastor, helping to tie rebar
a group of Quichuans helped to put block in the big spaces of the ceiling/floor that we were going to pour
The Quichuan helpers taking a break
Some of the locals unloading 50K (110 lb.) bags of cement
concrete action
Hank dumping water in the concrete mixer
the team begins to mix the concrete
the team passes up the concrete
from the mixer, to the wheelbarrow, to the bucket, up the small scaffold to Segundo, to the high scaffold where I was and up to the roof
we passed up over 300 buckets of concrete
the finished pour
the dried floor (or ceiling!)
another floor that was poured by the team
Jairo watches Lucho finish the concrete
Pastor Bruce poured a step upstairs
Chimbarazo, an inactive volcano soaring 20,000 feet
Chimbarazo was a captivating sight
El Altar, another volcanoe, peeks above the roof lines
Krista, Jon & Shirley Fischer, our missionary hosts
Me at 14,000 ft. We took a ride up on the Teleferqa
Janeece and Hank riding up the mountain
Krista with Mary
a fellow playing the pan flute and selling CDs at the bottom of the Teleferiqa
Panangelica, a VERY tall statue of an angel overlooking Colonial Quito
We ate at Pim's overlooking Colonial Quito
We drove to see the Basilica in the distance
Basilica del Voto Nacional also know as the church of the Sacred Heart (see over the doors)
It was a beautiful church example of New Gothic architecture
the inside was massive with extremely high ceilings
this catwalk was on top of the ceiling of the cathedral
the ladder up to one of the towers from the catwalk
a view from the top (yes they had stairs inside) of the clock towers
this is the inside of the steeple at the top of the clock tower
The doors on the side of the church were highly ornate as well
That's the clock tower we climbed.
I had Red Snapper at one of the restaraunts we visited.
One of the Quichuan children that helped
Pastor Bruce showed The Truh Project for devotions each evening...fantastic series
Sitting in devotions
