A construction team from Trinity Baptist Church of Lake Charles, LA recently came to Zimbabwe to help with some repairs on the Baptist Seminary property.
After unloading their tools they did an assessment of the work needing to be done and compared that with the building supplies with which they had to work. This turned out to be a real challenge for the team. Almost daily they made trips into town (the seminary is about 15 miles outside of Gweru) to try to source basic building supplies. Often they could not find exactly what they were looking for, but they always managed to come up with a plan to accomplish their task!
Connor Fry is a university student and the newest member to join this volunteer construction team. The others have been on previous volunteer trips.
The team found working out of a trunk instead of a toolbox a bit interesting.
It seemed easier to just dump it all out and dig through to find what one needed.
Earlier this year a storm took the roof off of one of the student housing duplexes and did damage to another seminary house roof. The first project was replacing and repairing these roofs. (Robert Bonvillian is seen here on the roof.)
Connor Fry and John Davis found that one of the houses required brick work before the roof could be completed.
Dr. Dick Landry (a doctor on the Trinity Team) and Gregg Fort went out to the seminary one day to check on the work.
After the roofs were completed, the team moved over to spend their remaining time beginning on the needed repairs on the seminary chapel.
While Robert and Todd painted the chapel roof with vinyl paint to extend its life.
Ron Ritter, John Davis, and Connor Fry stripped off the rotten underneath ceiling board on the front porch.
Then they put on new ceiling boards.
And painted them.
All in all a job well done.
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