New Facility

For those of you who follow our blog and our ministries here in Cambodia you are aware that I have been spending the last 6 weeks working on the construction and renovation of Asian Hope's new building in Prek Pneu.  I am VERY happy to say the construction is over, the renovation is complete, the walls and ceiling have been painted, and the floors have been cleaned (or better yet scrapped).  This was a HUGE endeavour that was completely overwhelming when we started, and now it is complete!
Here are some photos of all the work that has been done on the building...

We had one team of American military who are stationed in Japan come and help do the clean out of the building.  This was a very dirty job and they did an amazing job of getting it all ready to be painted....

Then we had multiple sets of volunteers come to paint the entire inside of the house, including the ceiling downstairs.  The interns at Asian Hope's guesthouse did the priming, a team from Belfast, Ireland painted all the walls blue, and the 9th and 12th grade classes at Logos painted the ceiling.  We also had countless hours of help from Asian Hope staff, volunteers from the community and those we met traveling, dear friends, and my mom come and finish off the painting and get the left over paint and dirt off the tile floors.

 

 Here are few before and after photos:  The upstairs main room:

The kitchen:

 The downstairs main room (before) and the office (after):

Thanks to everyone who helped, emailed encouragement through this process, and prayed for us and this building.  Last week we went shopping for all the furniture and school supplies.  I am so excited to start the next step and put my hammer, paint brush, and paint scrapper down :)