Pucallpa Day 2

Today was very similar to Day 1, but it rained!!

The medical team took off today early again to Monte de los Olivos to work with Beth Tucker and some other Peruvian staff to continue the clinic that they had started yesterday. Yesterday had some difficult patients with little that they could do for them in the area where they were working, but many of them recieved the care that they had come for.

The construction team (which included the school team) worked together at continuing to move the Mil Palmeras construction along. Bob, Eric and Jeremy were cutting re-bar while Rick grabbed a shovel and helped to make concrete for the next section of flooring that we were pouring today. Each section was about 20 x 25 feet, and today we got the 2nd section done with the re-bar tied together in the 3rd section.

Then it started to rain around 11 am. It rained so hard and long that they had to cover the slabs we had poured and just wait. After about 15 minutes, when it was clear that it was not going to just blow over, the other folks working the site wiht us challenged our crew to some rainy soccer and that was a blast. Sad to say, we were greatly out scored!

Gary and Sue continued working the painting majic on a bedroom wall at Julio and Olga's house, since they had completed their work at the Teen Pregnancy Center that Olga helps run.

Phil was working at helping Christian Listro (SAM missionaries working with Chiangs at church planting) with some electrical work in the house that they will be moving by the end of this month. Each of the mission houses down here have both 110 and 240 circuits, so it leaves lots of wiring to do when things need to be changed!

After lunch we gather with some of other church members of Mil Palmeras for a "social Construction" outreach of their church. Isaac Mendoza suggested a number of his students' homes that needed some handicapped accessible ramps and other things done, plus some other church members suggested some construction help for their contacts who were too poor to work at fixing their home. One of those was where Rick, Katrina and Phil worked at putting on a new roof and building some interior walls in one home