Church roof

In this past week we put the roof on our new church building we are constructing at Travessia village in Manaíra County. The overall building is 12 metres long by 6 metres wide. The actual church area is 9 m x 6 m with a three metre room at the back for a toilet and shower plus storage space. To put the roof on, hefty beams of wood are put first and then thinner wood is nailed to the beams so as to make a wooden mesh which can support the clay roofing tiles. All this work was done this week and the roof is complete with clay tiles. In the coming week we will do the electric wiring and then start the plastering of the walls.

Other building work done this week was at our Vazante and Barra de Oitis churches. At Barra de Oitis many lorry loads of earth were brought in to fill in the entrance area to the church, which was needed owing to the dip in the land in the location. At Vazante the entrance area to the church was finished and the church flooring tiles were started being put down. We are very pleased with all the building work progress here despite the pandemic.

We have received a prayer request from Kecinho who is a PE teacher and a member of our Patos church. His mother and his little daughter have both gone down with Covid-19. Please pray for them.

I watched part of the first half yesterday between Wales and Denmark and switched off with the score 0 x 0. I discovered later that Wales lost 4 x 0 so my forecast of a 2 x 0 defeat wasn't too far off. Now we wait for Tuesday and the England game.