Working to the end

Allison and I have been working hard on redlines for our project. Here you can see Tim redlining our latest set of new sheets. Note the red pen cap.  

Tim is usually pretty focused but I guess we giggled a little too much when we took this picture. 

Tim has been a wonderful supervisor. He is organized and tells us clearly what we need to work on. He does redlines as soon as we have a set of new sheets ready for him so that we can keep the project moving. He is quick to leave his work to answer our questions whenever we say “hey, Tim.” He takes the time to understand our questions and if he doesn’t know the answer gives us clear direction for a course of action. I have really appreciated his words of affirmation, which are not given flippantly nor are they extravagant. A “good job” or “that looks good” from Tim mean a lot and when he thinks that we have done a good job he always lets us know. Speaking of Tim’s organization, if anyone has an event, visitor, or trip announcement Tim always asks “did you put it on the Calendar?” The Calendar is our shared Google calendar. Allison and I have noticed that he always has Google calendar open, typically with his email open on his other monitor. So when I had my camera out the other day and saw this I had to snap a photo.

We are sure at this point that we will not be able to completely finish our project. We had been planning a water system that did not rely on a well, but the ministry recently dug a well and hit water! This is great, but it changes all of the plans for the water and wastewater. Thus, we have not received anything from our water engineer. We would still appreciate prayer that we could get the rest of the project finished. It will be a lot easier on Tim to wrap up only the water section rather than have multiple sections to finish. The structural plans are undergoing a lot of revisions right now. As we create the plans inconsistencies make an appearance as well as methods that can’t be used in latin America. Our office director, Micah, who is a structural engineer, has been helping with our structural design since he has more experience with central American construction than our structural engineer volunteer. Pray for quick communication between them as when as quick, good decisions. Brad and Kevin’s project is now finished. They were blessed with some really high quality volunteers. So they have been recruited to help on our project. Kevin and Allison have been working on renderings of the new buildings for fundraising and Brad and I have teamed up on the structural redlines. Here is Brad studying one of our structural sheets. (He didn’t even know that I took the picture.)