It takes a total of 8800 bricks to build a home in a Watoto Children's Village. Each home requires bricks for the outside wall, inner walls, and underground walls. (Source: Watoto Canada)Next spring a group from Long Creek Baptist Church will travel more than 10 000 kilometres to Uganda. They'll work together with local laborers to turn those 8800 bricks into a home for eight children and a house mother. It is exciting to imagine them passing bricks in a human chain under an African sun, carefully positioning them, building walls that will become a home...a solid home built on a foundation of love, care, and spiritual discipleship.
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock."
Matthew 7: 24-25
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