The Cercadillo Project

This four-family bathhouse was started by a team from Loysville, PA three weeks ago and due to daily rainstorms was finished by local men this past week.

Inside each of the four rooms is a toilet that flushes with a bucket of water and a bathtub-sized place to bucket bathe.  Not much by American standards, but an incredible gift to people who had no bathroom and nowhere to bathe in privacy.

Here are pictures of the four families that will be using these bathrooms.

Family # 1 – Cli, her five children (two not pictured), and Kinkon, the children’s father.

Family #2 – Meri and her two young adult sons (Sons not pictured.)

Family #3 – Ricki and her four children.

Family # 4 – Rosa and her three children.

It is my dream to construct many, many more of these bathhouses in Cercadillo.  The approximate cost for this one was $2250 USD.

These are sad days in Cercadillo as people are grieving the death of 28-year-old Melo who died suddenly on Saturday.  Some of you will remember Melo as the leader of the baseball players.  Those from the last team might remember him as the leader of the guys who came over to help with the walkway.   He lived in the house right next to our ministry center and was often out training his rooster to fight.

Melo was Carmencita’s brother, Gloneili, Eduarlin and Edison’s uncle, Luisa’s son, Minerva, Rosa and Ramona’s nephew, and the cousin of many of our core children.

Please pray for the village during this difficult time. Please pray for me to have wisdom to know what words of comfort to share and when to just sit silently with the family members during these next days of official mourning which can last up to 2 weeks.