Today we went to visit our first work site. The LAC is a school and compassion center where the vision is to build a high school. Right now the school system only goes up to 9th grade, in order for the school system to reach 13th grade they must have a science lab. The high school is in the process of being completed and will hopefully be completed in time for the next school year. Also on this property (which is rather large) is a house for a family that will potentially be moving in in August to run the new team center. The team center in the picture above is a duplex that will house double what the guest house holds right now and has the convenience of little travel to work. The teams that come out will stay here and be working on this property. Our team came out to put the roof on this center and the first day we scoped it out and attempted a few tolls (the roofing material) to get the hang of things.
There were so many little children who came out to watch us, this community has hundreds of children who do not and cannot ever afford to go to school. If you notice the water behind me and see the 'cleanliness' of it you will see their primary drinking source. We saw woman after woman come with donkeys and barrels to fill up their jugs and take back home. In this same water we saw people bathing, peeing, and playing.
As we were walking around the work site Pete (the missionary) dared me to sit on the donkey, and well I did. He then attempted to hit it and cause it to run but it was too lazy thankfully.
After we left the LAC we went to a ministry site called Tanghin, this is the area where the people use to worship a very large snake that ate their children. There use to be a Muslim school on this land and when the land was given over to the church and the school was torn down the snake completely disappeared. There is now a native burkinabe pastor who is planning on moving out here to start a church. This is one of the most beautiful pieces of land I have ever seen. As soon as we stopped the van the children, by the hundreds, came running towards us, and as soon as they got to us they grabbed our hands and walked with us. It was a heart breaking moment to realize that more than half of these children would not make it to the age of 10.
This is also the site where I raised money for the new Compassion center to be built, which should be starting really soon. They are hoping to have it done in the next few months. Compassion will give these children a hope and a future and I am thrilled to know that they will see that their lives matter to God.
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