This morning before I began walking from our rental house out to the building site where we are building the community center, I locked the door to our rental house and carefully put the key in my pocket as I began down the dusty road. “Dusty” is key (pun intended!) because anything small that lands…
Our Shipping Container Residence – Part 2 Dear Reader, The month of August 2024 was a busy, but productive one. Regular readers would be familiar with the 2023 project update, but in 2024 we had renewed forces. August 2024 was nothing short of a whirlwind here at the construction site in Gleno, and it seems…
Yesterday we brought home approximately 100 fig tree seedlings.. Luke messaged a stranger at the time, and later met with Julio – a Timorese man passionate about fig trees and the development of his country. The majority of the seedlings will be given to the community in Gleno and Julio will give them training on…
Due to visa extensions/applications, we needed to travel quite often to Dili, as you might know by now, it’s a ride full of beauty and at the same time full of obstacles…. But the trips are worthwhile – when you have friends at both ends of the road. In Dili, we got to meet some…
Due to heavy rains, caused by Tropical Cyclone Seroja, followed by others not so strong, but constant, our access path has become really impractical! We had to suspend our work and waited about 3 weeks until the mud dried and we were able to, fix it again; cover the holes with stones and place a…
…for a while now we wanted to say THANK you!
Thank you God for every one who donated for this cause… their support and love left us speechless and grateful; we pray God will reward their kindness the way only He knows how to!!!
The other day, …
We found a private land, with about 2 hectares, which was situated on a plateau. there was no electricity, Water, nor access path. initially asked 4000 thousand usd and we were very happy with this price, despite the large investment we would need to make to bring all these utilities on the ground. after the first date, o dono…