Firm Foundation

How firm a foundation ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent word. What more can he say, than to you he hath said; To you, who for refuge to Jesus have fled? This was the hymn

on my heart as the day began

Bricks being laid in the ditch

There are 2 lady workers

Sheeba is looking on

By the afternoon the ditch all filled up

A load of sand


Mixing concrete

No powder puff girls these.
These women are from Bilaspur (Central India)
People from there move all over India as migrant labourers
Least you think in India we employ primitive methods of construction
Let me tell you that our country has the most modern means of building and builders and architects take on International projects.
But we are operating on a shoe string budget, cannot afford builders.
These are some of our modern buildings.



Jobs for the Day
1.House chores
2. Instructions to the men
3. Supervising the building
4.Bank
5. Purchasing cement and manure (for the garden)
6.Court - the judge did not come, so it was time and money wasted
7.Grocery shopping
8. Simran came for lessons in the evening
An old house helper came to spend the day with us.She had lunch and left with old clothes and some money.
I am tired
The high humidity is giving me a constant headache and in this season my body breaks out in sores which are very painful.

Tomorrow is another day.

As I close tonight, I think of our heavenly city and its wall and foundation

"The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stones. "Rev 21;18,19

Sunday Blessings - Hand Me Another Brick

Neh 2:18
Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for [this] good [work].

Neh 2:20

Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: ...

The building work is progressing.

The men piled the bricks near the building site.

Below you can see another man breaking the bricks into small pieces to

line the foundation.

This work is done by hand, as we don 't have machines.

And he is doing it with a hammer.

Today with the church collection money we bought a dhurmut an iron

instrument to break stones and level the ground.

I will photograph it and show it to you.

This is the trench for the foundation


Tomorrow we are hiring two bricklayers or masons and six workmen
to raise the raise wall.
We have already bought the cement and sand to make the concrete.

Please pray for me. Tomorrow I have a busy morning.
House-work, Bank and a court hearing.

There is high security at the District Court (pictured on the left) due to bomb threats.They are frisking people etc.

Our city has had several bomb scares which turned out to be hoaxes.I got a text message from the Police cautioning against rumours and unidentified objects lying around.

A little while ago we heard on the news that there has been an explosion in Kolkata (Calcutta) some people have died.

A few nights ago the police caught a suspicious foreign national

(neighbouring country) with no papers or identification prowling around outside our train staion.

Only the Lord can keep us secure

The Lord is my strength

and my shield

my heart trusts in Him.

Psalm 28;7