Crestwicke Team from Guelph

We recently had a team here from Crestwicke Church in Guelph Ontario. This team was special to many here in Peru because it uncluded Sarah and Lalo, a couple who used to live here in Peru and had spent a lot of time with the children in the home. Sarah helped a lot with making decisions for hosting the team and also checking in on the jobs that people were doing to make sure they were doing okay. She also oraganized lots of interaction between the team and the children. Lalo spent all of his time here fixing the minstry vehicles. That was a need that he saw soon after arriving here and it falls under his skills as an auto repair expert. Our cars are running great now and their suspensions are better suited for the road to Pachacamac. Some of the team helped by installing electricity in the workshop. They ran the wires from the panel at the street, back to the shop. There they installed a breaker panel and ran a line of outlets around the workshop. This is going to make a huge difference in for my project for November which is installing closets in the moms rooms. These are closets that we rescued from the old children's home which I will modify to fit the openings in the new homes.

Another job that I had for this team was to decorate the pump shed that Calvary Baptist from Oshawa had built for us last year. This team had some skilled artists on it so I gave them the freedom to decorate it in any way they saw fit. It turns out they included many of the kids in the drawing and painting which the kids really enjoyed. The shed turned out great and everyone who had a hand in it should be very proud.

The team also did lots of painting and gardening during their time here. Above is our food deposit which the team cleaned and painted and then planted flowers and flower seeds in new gardens that they dug. The team also scraped and painted 3 houses on the outside and repainted 1 house on the inside. They got lots of work done in only a week here and also had time to visit a few families in Manchay with Brenda. Friday night 11 of them went home and 5 went on to Machu Picchu to enjoy the sites there.

In the next month, as mentioned above, I will be installing closets in the moms rooms and Eduardo will be enjoying vacations. Then in December my family and I will be going to Canada for 2 1/2 months. During this time my plan is to leave Eduardo making sidewalks throughout the property in Pachacamac. This will finish off many areas that are almost done and it will cut down on lots of dust. It will also help define the area that we have for our jumbo playground that is coming next July.