Once again, we had the extreme privilege of working with a church in central China. This year, we assisted a church at the beginning of a big building project. When finished, the church will be three stories high, feature a 1,500 seat sanctuary, office space and classrooms.
For our part, we moved thousands of bricks from their delivery point to holes around the soon-to-be created foundation. Workers dig holes about 25 feet deep, create brick walls and then, fill the holes with concrete as part of the foundation. Interestingly, the brick walls in the holes are fashioned from the top down (usually, brick walls are created from the bottom up). We moved dirt for the foundation, moved delivered steel and flattened part of the ground. The church is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2012. We hope to visit this church again in the future and possibly help them again as they put the finishing touches on the building.
This year, we took advantage of many different opportunities to meet with people at a seminary, several churches and various meetings. We met and spent time with more people than ever before. We are very thankful for all of the team members who went to China, all of the people praying for us during our time there and those who provided funds to make this time possible.
(Note: Limited information is provided because of the nature of some of our work on this project.)
