After our latest disaster relief trip to Baganga, we are thankfully almost finished with the church roofing project. We covered the final rooms of the parsonage including this little guy’s room. It will likely take one last trip to put up the finishing touches on the roof.
On our last disaster relief trip to Baganga, Extreme Mercy International built a roof for this little boy named Uriah.
As far as functionality, everyone can worship under a dry roof and the families that live there can sleep under a stable dry roof. There are just a few things that need to be completed to add support beams to handle the weight of the roof and do some finishing aesthetics.
This had been one of the costliest undertakings our ministry has tried to accomplish, and it will be wonderful when we are done with it. It has cost us thousands of dollars to pull this off and we are basically out of money for it.
The cost has not only been financial— It has been hard on my young family to have me gone so often and come home often exhausted, sick, and even injured from these trips.
Truthfully, most of the big aid agencies have pulled out of the area leaving half of the homes still covered with tarpaulins seven months after the storm. Even many of the government buildings and schools are still in shambles.
We are one of the few organizations still helping. I spoke to a pastor who said 42 evangelical church buildings were destroyed and the congregations are still displaced. I would love to help them all, but praise God that through your generosity and giving we were able to help this one church and can hopefully help more as God provides.
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