La Finca - Day 4

In many ways, as we move deeper and deeper into design, we tend to get more and more boring.  The drainage/water engineers start talking about sinuosity and thalweg, the structural/bridge engineers talk of earthquake loading and 'L' over something or other, the architects talk about visualizations and charrettes.  Our language separates us from one another - how there is an interesting thought when you are sitting in a foreign country.  As a design team, our desire is to stay unified in what we are doing, and with the ministry that we are serving, but our skills, our talents, and our passions, draw us away from one another and cause us to use different language.

For what we do on an EMI design trip, we overcome that challenge by taking time to bring one another along, and by daily stopping the design process and refocusing on what God is doing among us.

How do we overcome the things that naturally separate us from one another in our daily lives?  How do we maintain a sense of unity that allows us to function as the Body of Christ?

Architects showing some of the YL staff their cool stuff.

Digging a test pit the easy way.  Here we were trying to determine what was causing a large soft spot.

Jamal - working up some visualizations

Please be praying for Wanda and the kids.  They have been swamped with snow the last few days, and Wanda is now starting the process of getting ready to join me in Nicaragua on Saturday.  We will spend next week with our "relaunch" team Scouting out Managua.  Pray that the transition from dad being gone to both mom and dad being gone goes well for our kids.  Grandpa and Grandma Burgi will be staying with the kids, pray for energy (for the Grandparents, not the kids....).