We are so thankful that the Lord has been blessing us with rain!!! It has been an overly dry year, and several parts of PNG, people have to go to the river and haul all of their water. However, we had a few hard rains, and our roof started leaking, so we went to Yababi and got some new Kuni grass bundles. Several men from our church offered to fix it for us, and that was a huge blessing!!!
Here are the grass bundles... I felt just like "little pig" making a house out of straw :)
The men arriving to fix the roof... by the end, there were 11 men helping to fix our roof!! It was a blessing!!!
From the left...
(Iso, Rodney, Pita, Silua, Philimon, Tobi)
Our roof before they started.
David
Silua, working inside our house to find all the leaking spots.
Iso and Rodney making "rope" out of strips of bark to tie the "pit-pit" cross-pieces to the wood frame of the roof.
Here is the wood rope, and the pit-pit is there on the right side... it looks like tiny bamboo.
The bundles of old grass went onto the tarp to burn later...
Taking off the old grass.
Still making rope..
Philimon with little Kipsi
Iso and David taking a break...
from left... (Rodney, Silua is lying down, and Iso on the right.)
Iso and Silua are brothers, and they both got saved recently...
Rodney trimming all the grass from the inside...
And then they all sat down for a meal, and of coarse, you can see Paul in there, wanting his own share :)
So this is the finished product!! They did such a nice job!!!
What the new roof looks like from the inside!!
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