I’m used to looking for ways to involve people in processes. The more people have a chance to give input, the more ownership they take.
There wasn’t much of a plan for the building the SSGMA wanted to break ground on before we got to Ethiopia. Once we toured some neighboring sites to ours, we found a size that aught to fit our needs well: 6 meters wide, and 32 meters long. This building will essentially have three interior dividing walls which will give us an office, a conference room, and two class rooms. Of course all of the rooms will find their actual purpose in time. All of them may be used to house orphaned children, but we won’t know that until later.
I was working to lay out the foundation pad, giving each man a duty: David on camera, Isaacs on machete, Abram’s assistant checking for square, Deng on measuring tape and Aragat on string line. I didn’t realize until the end that Aragat was our taxi driver and had been helping out only because I had expected it. There is a little Tom Sawyer in all of us.
This was one of the moments you find you’ve been living for, when everyone has a place in God’s plan.
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