Nov 5-12

Larry Madole and 5 team members along with a team from Crossroads Church in Des Moines were in Pignon Nov 5-12 and accomplished a great deal of work. The following is Larry's report about the trip.


We has six people in our ( Larry's) group and teamed up with a group from Crossroads Church in the Des Moines area. The two teams met up in West Palm Beach and took the shuttle to Fort Pierce. All flights went very well and all were on time.

The members on Larry's team came from different places in Iowa, Colorado and Missouri.

The goals of the team included working on the outpatient clinic and to do whatever was needed to help finish the house for Jared and Stacey Nikkels.

The work that was done on the outpatient clinic was hard manual labor. It include chiping and leveling the dining room floor to get it ready for tile , then we finished tiling the floor in the big dining area and one hall.

We also worked on the Nikkel's house which included tilling two floors, painting both inside and outside, making screens for all windows, making one table and four book shelves. We also worked on the plumbing which included, hooking up kitchen sink, setting the vanity and hooking up plumbing in bathroom as well as setting both stools and hanging kitchen cabinets.

The team also made some shelves for the bathrooms in the Iowa house.

Two of the evenings were spent singing to the hospital patients.

We also went to Bohoc to attend Church services and toured UCI's new worship center. We also toured the hospital compound, operating rooms at the hospital, the farm and went to one of our schools (Rocky).

There is much work that still needs to be accomplished including the hall, kitchen and stairs at the dorm. Kitchen cabinet doors and counter tops need to be made and installed. Beds, tables, some screens and shutters need to be installed at the outpatient clinic.

The next project will be to finish the downstairs at the outpatient clinic. We need to tile floors, paint all walls and ceilings and finish wiring and plumbing.

We need to paint the downstairs at the hospital and work on the wiring.

We also have to finish the addition on Three Bears School and to begin on at Rocky School.