Camp Construction Update
We have some up-to-the-minute pictures from the camp construction project to show you. These show the sinks, toilets, piping, and wiring being installed in the bathrooms.
We have some up-to-the-minute pictures from the camp construction project to show you. These show the sinks, toilets, piping, and wiring being installed in the bathrooms.
Today and tomorrow I am at the camp property with Pastor Francivaldo to check up on construction, purchase more materials, and pay workers. After our wildly successful work day on the first of this month, we faced two major hurdles: the truckers’ strike effectively killed our plans for a second work day, and several of…
Thanks to a generous donation, work at the Mount Zion Regular Baptist Camp has begun once again. Together with Michael and Francielio (a young man from the Ebenézer church) I spent last weekend cutting the weeds that had grown up in front of our property, and contracting workers for the next steps of the construction….
Franciélio, one of the members of our camp development team, and I went to camp on Tuesday and returned on Thursday. We needed to purchase some more materials for our builders, and shop around for contractors for the next phase of the project. Here are some pictures of some of our activities. One of our…
As is usual, we provide opportunities for our visiting teams to take a break from their work and see some of the amazing sights that surround us here in Brazil. Perhaps the most amazing of those sights in this region are the “Lençóis Maranhenses”, known to us as “The Dunes”. We’ve taken many groups to…
It’s been a couple weeks, but I am finally getting around to posting an update about our 2023 teen retreat at Mount Zion Baptist Camp. And an amazing retreat it was! One of the highlights of the week was the inauguration of our new water slide, which proved to be a huge success. Take a…
Today I went to the camp property again, accompanied by two men from our church, Francivaldo and George. Our goal was to clear away the weeds around the remaining undefined boundary. But first… …the first “structure” raised on the camp property. And this came in very handy because… …it rained. No…it poured. Not that we…