I (Bryan) spent the last week working with a team from Church at Charlotte at the SIM Baboguya retreat center which is located about 2 ½ hours north of our home in Langano. Due to a number of reasons, Baboguya has not been maintained for much of the past decade. We were tasked with giving the place a face lift and making as many repairs as possible. This included painting and updating 6 cabins, the main kitchen, dinning room and lounge. We also did a whole lot of landscaping work, cutting 4 foot tall grass and taking out dead trees.
But the biggest challenge for me was designing and building a new dock. Unfortunately, Vanderbilt didn’t offer an elective in designing docks in developing countries; but, by God’s grace, we were able to get it in the water and it didn’t even sink! That was a huge relief J We still have a few more finishing touches to put on (like the walking surface) in the next month, but I look forward to seeing lots of families relaxing and enjoying the water.
A big thanks to Church at Charlotte and all of our Ethiopian workers for working some long hard hours to get all this work accomplished!
But the biggest challenge for me was designing and building a new dock. Unfortunately, Vanderbilt didn’t offer an elective in designing docks in developing countries; but, by God’s grace, we were able to get it in the water and it didn’t even sink! That was a huge relief J We still have a few more finishing touches to put on (like the walking surface) in the next month, but I look forward to seeing lots of families relaxing and enjoying the water.
A big thanks to Church at Charlotte and all of our Ethiopian workers for working some long hard hours to get all this work accomplished!
