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For those who haven't been following my RR on Ridedualsport, I have a ministry where I travel around helping missionary's of like beliefs with building projects, I've work on Bible institutes, christian camps, christian schools, churches, missionary's homes etc..  Iv'e been over a lot of the U S from Florida to Alaska, and from South America to South Africa, 66 mission trips total in the last 17 yrs, I don't get paid for this and I am poorer than probably 99% of you, I tell people I am the poorest rich person they will ever meet, I have nothing but my God has everything, and He gives me what I need when I need it. I am currently in Mexico working on an orphanage, I've been here 6 months and it looks like I'll be here another yr unless God needs me else where. So why am I telling you this in the ride report forum, I originally rode down on my ktm 450 from TN, all back roads and across the mtns of Chihuhua Mexico to the city of Navojoa on the west coast, about 3000 miles total, then I flew home and got my truck loaded it with tools and came back down. My main projects so far have been building furniture for the people in our church and helping with concrete pours on the orphanage until they get the inside plastered so I can go in and finish it out, plus I have to build cabinets, tables, desk and all the door frames, if anybody wants to help come on down, we can use electricians, people to lay tile, plumbers, carpenters, and especially people that can plaster or stucko walls. We go up into the mtns once a month and have services in other villages, we were in 4 different ones this week, had 8 adults and 2 children accept Christ as their savior, one of the villages has given the missionary a piece of property to build a church on as we regularly have 100 people when ever we go up thier, plans are to start the church in about a yr from now after the rainy season ends, I will post pics of the small towns/villages throughout the report. Here are a few pics of the journey down.


    My route


   The morning I left

 
  Expansion Bridge on the Natchez Trace Parkway, I was able to talk to a lady while I was the top side who was struggling with a few things in her life, I guess I did some good as she wanted a hug before I left


  Rual America, this is why you don't take the interstate


 Shiloh Battlefield, a must stop if in the area

 
The original church at Shiloh


Had to through in some gravel on the way down


I love old churches, I stop and take pics at all that I find and always wonder about the stories they could tell

 
This was an interesting shot taking at another old church


This beats the interstate anyday


A road that turned out to not be a road


Some more gravel in my travel


The only reason I new there was a town here


A Catholic church complete with shrine in Archer county Texas, first church was built in 1893 this one was dedicated in 1925


Found his bus but old Bob was nowhere around

Not sure how many pics I can put on a post so I'll continue this tomorrow as dinner is calling.

So here are some pics of where I am at and what I'm doing, the orphanage is the main project, I am here to help with the finish work, tile electrical plumbing, I can do anything except block, but I still help out with the concrete pours and other parts when needed, other wise I am building furniture and taking care of other problems around the facilities

Getting ready to pour the front porch roof



A lot of rebar and more was added





It took 7 hrs to pour this with buckets



Mexican cement trucks lined up and ready to go 



Inside the church



Pastor and assistant pastor with wife and new born son



Sunday school class, in 105 degree temps 



So what do you do at the end of the day, you go across town and help another pastor pour concrete at his church, reward fresh tomales 





For those that think I am nuts for riding a dirt bike down this 125cc bike was riding down from Montana oriinally



The orphanage when I first arrived

 

The church



My house that I share with another local and on weekends I get 2 more teens from the bible collage in Hermosilla



A bed I made for a church members daughter, a lot of the kids sleep on the ground, and very few people have any kind of dresser for their close



This is one of the worst houses, but there are plenty of them around, when you make 1000 pesos a week some less some more (thats about $55 US) it dosen't go far



One of the nicer shacks which belongs to a church member who is very faithful in serving and sharing the gospel with those in his area



The inside, his wife and other child had walked to the store for firewood to cook with



This is what it looks like when cooking dinner gets out of hand



Mario is 92 and yes he still rides his motorcycle, he pulls a small cart with it and sells whatever he can to make money for food, the old people here don't have social security and most of the kids won't take care of their parents



Living at the highest point in the city has one draw back, water pressure, we can go weeks without getting any water so we have to haul it in



Visitation



Visiting the elderly in the church, Concha was sick here and we weren't sure if she would make it, but she is now able to come to church again



The street outside my house



A bunk bed I made for another church member



Orphanage now 2nd floor walls mostly up, plastering the inside and working on getting ready to pour the roof, which takes a lot of work



What the locals call a closet, I made this one for my house so no doors, I put doors on the others,



That's all the pics I have uploaded now, I will upload some from our recent trip up the mtn, which was this week, we held services in 4 different towns with a total of I believe 12 salvations, 8 adults and 4 children, and I'll take pics of my shop as well, hasta luego amigos

It's awesome what you are doing!
Keep up the good work for Jesus.

Nice to hear from you Gary!  I'll look up your FB page