The guy's trip to Ethiopia

A couple weeks ago, Jarod and Matt took a trip to Ethiopia to help Gary and Peg Ifft on a school. They were wanting to take a one room school house and make it into two rooms. So Jarod went as the mason and Matt went as the carpenter.

Here they are the morning after they arrived. On their way home from the airport, they stopped at this restaurant, owned by a good friend of Gary's (second from right).

Here they are on one of the first days on the job. At the end of the day, the men in the background would figure out their wages. They would get paid depending on how long they worked and how hard...reminded them of the Parable of the Laborers.

Here Matt and Jarod ate their fish that they were given. They thought they ate it pretty clean, until Peggy said, 'you better give the rest of that to someone', so they gave it to some children who ate the rest of it.

Matt on his coffee break. I love this face, because he doesn't like coffee, but Jarod said politely drank it every day.

This is the donkey cart that the man with the blue shirt would deliver materials on.

Here is Gary's 'taxi'. They ran out of gas while they were out this night and had to have someone bring them gas.

The same night, they were taking crutches to this little boy who had just had surgery on his one leg and the family couldn't afford crutches, so he had no way of getting around. Isn't he so sweet.

Here are the guys that they worked with all week.

Then they were able to go to church on Sunday. Peggy sent this picture to us and said, 'Here are your guys with their new Brothers'. So neat!