The picture from the last post shows the building in Juarez, Mexico after a small crew had worked on it for one day. This picture shows the building 5 days later towards the end of the day. All of the block walls are up and most of the roof system is in place. Later in this day, half of the roof insulation and metal was put on and the roof was finished on Friday morning. Quite a miracle!
On Thursday morning I went with one of the welders to purchase more of the steel beams for the roof. My expertise is in knowing Spanish, not in building skills. After we made the purchase of 24 very heavy 20' beams, we strapped them to the top of a van with a rack on it. We didn't realize that one of the beams was standing on end, rather than flat, and it prevented the strap from fully securing the beams. We set out on a busy (3 lanes each way) street, back to the building site. At the first stop light my partner noticed the beams on his side of van started sliding forward, he yelled "we better stop" and by the time I tried to stop slowly, it was like a slow motion replay, all of the beams slid off the roof rack and landed in front of the van. So here we are in the middle lane of this very busy street. Buses and cars are whizzing by on both sides and we have no idea what to do. Fortunately, a Mexican man (duh, we're in Mexico) came out of his business, climbed on top of the van and helped us slide the beams back on the rack. We were able to stop traffic and back into a parking lot and re-secure our load. It wasn't too funny then, now we can laugh about it. I think we really experienced God's protection, and help. And the miracle continued...
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