WE LOVE WINDOWS!!! The ‘Lucky 13’ all came to work today… even ‘Flat Dave & Vicky’, and our ‘mascot’ Flat Bev’, too. You’ll see them in a few of the pictures throughout this BLOG. The project cranked up in earnest about 8:30am as...
21 May 2018 Let the WORK Begin! As is often the case on Builders Group trips, we don’t have much of an idea what work projects we’ll be working on. Janka had told us we’d be doing ‘windows’, but we don’t have our usual ‘Window Lead’ with...
Builders Group BLOG – May 2018 Formerly known as the ‘Lucky 13’, now known as the ‘Elite Eleven’. There are three ‘rules’ on a mission trip: 1) Flexibility, 2) Flexibility, 3) Flexibility. Earlier this week Dave & Vicky Lorenz had to cancel out...
The COUNTDOWN continues... The Builders Group has just one day left before departing to Martin, Slovakia. We are putting together the last few items in our luggage and getting instructions to those who are taking care of our houses. We were given a number of items to take...
Dear Friends, Despite our chilly and overcast weather here in Slovakia, we celebrated the gift of love this February. We started this month with family worship, our outreach program connecting families from the school to our local congregation. The theme focused on the undeserved love we...
Dear friends, As we transition into summer we contact you with both news of rejoicing and an appeal for help. The good news is that we have completed the 1st Phase of reconstruction for $1,124,000 and have already reached the maximum amount of children we can accept for next school year by...
Greetings to all! Some time has passed since my last writing so that now it is time to summarize our experiences! This year was not our typical block and mortar experience. Our original plan was to erect 100 feet of classroom walls to assist with the completion of the CCE High School. However...
We send you each our love and are so happy to report that all of us are well and are so happy to be here! Since we can not start wall construction until next week, we started our work time two days ago and have been repairing the windows in the new chemistry and physics labs. It is a huge room...
We are the ‘U. S., Seven builders of 2016’ – Joe & Joann Lunders, Earl Brunberg, Bud Helmen, Linda Thueson, Mary Lee Waldman and Bob Jandeska just arriving in Martin, Slovakia. We had a great trip over without any glitches and absolutely no turbulence on our flights. It...
The Builders Group left Martin on Wednesday, Jan. 27 with Tomáš Gulán as our chauffeur of the yellow van as we headed to Krakow for a couple of days of sightseeing. Since the teachers strike is still occurring Tomáš didn’t have teaching responsibilities...