Month: January 2013

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Married Dorm Wish List

Flowers 367You know how when people are going to get married they go and look at lovely things in a store and sign up on the gift registry?

Well, I have a married dorm building which is not yet finished and looking quite undone at this moment. Classes start on March 8th and I need the rooms ready by then for married students. The leap of faith to finish this building started in November and has been moving along until the bottom of the building fund account has now appeared!

So I thought I would put out my Married Dorm Wish List and if anyone would like to gift us any of these things items, well, that would be just wonderful!!

Married Dorm Wish List

3 toilets @ $200 each ($600)

3 sinks @ $120 each ($360)

1 Cement laundry sink @ $150

3 double mattresses @ $150 each ($450)

6 chairs @ $20 each ($120)

3 small tables @ $50 each ($150)

Plumbing fixtures @ $500 total

Bathroom tile – not priced at this time but we have to tile cement walls.

 

You can make an online donation here or send a check to our US account labeled project 5619.

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Showdown in the Library

Pastor MendarIn Vanuatu, we have voracious termites, frequent cyclones and earthquakes which damage property. There are some tropical pests which are almost impossible to eradicate. A multitude of invisible wood bores moved into our plywood library shelves a few years ago and began to devour them. A professional fumigator came in and the wood bores still thrived. We fought back by injecting poison into the wood cracks with a syringe. We tried several poisons over a period of time and still they continued to destroy our shelves.  Last year the shelves began to sag and the bugs finally won!

Pastor Mendar (a JBI grad) is in town for a few months and has built new library bookshelves out of treated pine. The library is now ready for another school year and we are so grateful for his skills and assistance.

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New Tracts in Bislama Language

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Just recently had two “new” tracts printed in the Bislama language. I say “new” because they were written many years ago by my father and I recently updated the language and had them reprinted. Bislama is the trade language of Vanuatu, where we have 115 languages on 83 islands! People are always eager to read something in Bislama.

Thank you to Light For The Lost (LFTL) for paying for the printing!

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Married Dorm Update

Within a few days the married dorm building may stop for a while as we have run out of funds. I wanted to show you what has happened recently and how much progress has been made. Students arrive for classes March 8th and we really want to have this finished for 3 married couples. We have no other campus housing for married students.

Avia plastering the back wallporch

All the interior and exterior walls are being plastered.

Room with private bathroom - right side

This is one of the studio rooms. Private bath through door on the left.

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The sky was really this blue today!! Gorgeous! NEED MONEY FOR METAL ROOF!

Front of buildingrear of building

Photo (left) is the front porch of the building and on the right is the rearview.

Married dorm behind chapel

The married dorm sits behind the JBI Chapel. Pray with us that funds will come in to finish it quickly!

Thank you for making your tax deductible contribution here.