HECTOR THE DIRECTOR

So the ZIM Team have arrived from Canada on Sunday. They are group of people, varying ages and backgrounds, who are here for 3 weeks. They plan to help us build a few structures but I don't mind admitting, I am now nervous (see picture). The walls have certainly come tumblin' down and here's hoping they go tumblin' back up very soon. In particular I need the Seminar Centre completed in the three weeks as the two days after the team leave we have a group arriving using the facilities. I have really enoyed meeting these guys, especially John and Rochelle who are from Canada but working in Harare. I was reminded by Rochelle about miracles - Chikankata needs a few of them (especially where finances are concerned!) but I am beginning to believe it could happen.

Now to my friends, me being a co-foreman on building site probably raises a few cackles (I have caring hands!) but I have been at thick of it and loving every minute of it! I have to admit that how things are this week is how imagined it would be at Chikankata before I came here. I am enjoying not being so serious all the time. Today, I have ordered 40 toilets and sinks, 50 door frames, picked up 1500 bricks and 150 bags of cement and so on. I reckon that I could build my own house now (no laughing at the back please!)

As I speak, there are close to 600 people standing outside my office, watching a film about the Big Man which is being projected onto the side of a building in the dark. Jesus was bi-lingual and tonight he is speaking Tonga (literally and, I guess, metaphorically).

So far this week is a good week!