The team has worked very fast making up the time lost on the flight delays. Saturday finds the team putting up the last trusses by the end of the day, finishing exterior walls and interior walls. They are making great headway and will continue making progress. Mike has been keep quite busy making [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2008’
Brothwell Team Ladies - Preparing Food
The ladies are extremely busy preparing and cooking meals for the team of 25. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and two snacks during the day finds everyone with an assignment from Terry. Filling the ice trays and keeping the water filters full take an incredible amount of time. Keeping up on the ice is [...]
1st Day on the Project
First Day on the Volunteer House Project finds all the exterior walls framed standing. The guys worked hard and found that using hard wood is not that easy. All of Mike’s PNG men were helping with the construction. This morning the day started with a devotional from Pastor Dirye, who was the [...]
Brothwell Team Arrives
The Brothwell Team has arrived. Plane late from Brisbane into Port Morseby so they overnighted. We drove to the airport this morning to meet the team. It was great to meet everyone. I drove the ladies back to the station in the van. Mike drove the dyna (pickup) with all [...]
Brothwell Team Update
Since the phones had been out all day Tuesday in the Mt. Hagen and Kudjip areas it was difficult to get information on the flight. But, the e-mail received from John on Monday evening said that they would be in on the 5:30 PM flight. We left the station at 4:30 PM headed [...]
Volunteer House Slab Completed!!!
Mike and the workmen (28) completed the foundation slab last night, Saturday, at 4:30 PM. Andrew was sick, so Mike was power troweling and screeding the cement . Noah, hospital construction supervisor, stopped to check out the pour. As he was looking over the pour with Mike, he said that there were [...]
Brothwell Team Delay
Received an e-mail from John Brothwell, the team is delayed in Los Angeles and will have to stay overnight. They are to leave on the 11 AM tomorrow. We researched online Quantus Airlines learning that the engineers had a strike May 29-30 in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. This strike caused 17 [...]
