Up and Coming...

Just a quick update...
Next week I will be starting the 5th home in San Juan Bautista. This home is extra special because it will be the prototype of a new design for the disaster relief home. This design is made of prefab panels which will make the construction faster and easier (hopefully). We will start on the foundation late next week and build the home the following week.

The end of this month I will be going with a team to Pixebaj (about 2 hours from here) to build one of our new design homes for a family of 3 households who lost all three homes to a mudslide. For now all three families will share the one home.

In July my nephew Nick Haddox will be staying with us for about a month and together we will work with a different team in the construction of two homes in Pastores (30 min away) and two in Alotenango (40 min away).

Late in July (with Nick) we hope to be able to start the construction of the new main fresh water system for Tabacal. Sierra Bible has donated $1600 toward the construction of this system and those monies should get us well on the way by providing the needed funds for the pipeline and one more tank (we will then have two out of the needed five)

Things to Pray for...

- Please keep in prayerful consideration that the people of Tabacal will be needing food assistance for the next several months as the chili crop was not as expected and after this month we will have no more undesignated money available for food.
- Pray also for the new planting efforts there. Pray also that the people will respect erosion control measures taught to protect their topsoil.
- Primarily pray for the spiritual climate of the village as faith is often tied to prosperity here. The people have a good perspective but suffering from bad crops from bug problems may have adverse effects on faith. Hopefully I will have time to begin some fundamental bible classes with the 5 leaders of the community or at least with Manuel who mainly cares for the spiritual needs of the community. My time is getting to be at a premium but this is a very important task to achieve true and eternal success for the people of Tabacal.
- Pray also for our move to San Cristobal (walking distance from work). We hope to move in July. The home we will move into is currently occupied and our friends who live there plan to move late this month but it may not be until mid July. We would like to move as soon as possible!
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In HIS Grip,
Eric Haddox P.E.
eMi Guatemala
001-502-2443-3493

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