Day 3 completing the little one's play place!

Day 3 (Saturday Sept. 29) started out with threatening clouds but that did not deter the men from the task at hand of roofing the play place, setting up swings, fixing the seesaw and other repairs!

 Timothy and Dennis working with Tom on the little one's slide

 Dennis cutting while Timothy and Levi are nearby.

 Can you see it shaping up so nice?!!

 Time for working on that roofing... Joseph and Tom

Hauling away the leftover scraps of wood

The kids found some of the tools. Lily was trying to level Timothy's arm

Levi liked the stacks of nails for the nail gun.

Playing with scraps of wood by making trucks bang into them!

 Dennis measuring out where to cut

Timothy and Dennis working on cutting the board.

Dennis and Tom. Tom is such a patient teacher and allowed so many of the kids to try out the power tools!

Victor Kirwa, Timothy, Tom and Dennis

 Asking Moses to take the first slide on the little one's play place!

 Bryan on one side while Timothy, Victor and Tom are on the other

 Bryan working with wood with the boys

 Yahhoooo! All six swings are up and ready to use!

Kibaki, Tom, Eugene, Joseph and Bryan the guys who got this amazing play place together in just 3 days!!!!

Time to play! Levi waiting for Lucy to slide and David standing nearby.

On Saturday night we had a community movie so all of the kids came a bit before the movie to check out all of the awesome new play places!

 Here we are in one of the classrooms on the property with the place maxed out a bit after starting the movie and people watching the movie "Queen of Katwe" through the windows outside!

We are thankful for being able to show positive movies here with a message to encourage others and tell them that God has a great purpose for their lives!

Day Two

Day two started out great with getting more of the industrial strength swing set hardware up!

A lot of the work today was focused on the little one's play area!

The deck to the slide area was put in place.

The Grace Family Educational Centre school kids who were playing in the field were saying they can't wait to play at the new playground!!!

After lunch the railing was put up around the little one's deck and the hearty stairs were made and put into place!

Bryan and Joseph were working on cutting down the railing to fit for Tom to put in.

Joseph loves to learn from Tom and Bryan and to be able to use the awesome power tools!

Kipchumba, Moses and Lily enjoyed using the leftover wood to make puzzles and homes!

Sitting on the new steps of the little one's play place eating popcorn!

Peekaboo Lucy!

Lucy and Moses enjoying a new place to play!

Yahoo! 3 swings up and a tire swing... 5 more swings to go of various heights! The kids are loving it all already! Thank you Lord for your strength and inspiration to the strong men to make these amazing improvements!

Day 1 of playground revitalization!!

September 28th day one of playground revamping, repairing and adding new play areas!!

Lucy and Levi wanted to show you what is going on here! Tom and Bryan from Roanoke, VA arrived this week and got to work right away. Our playground is well love by Grace family and the community children! It is a place to explore, get past fear of heights, play with your friends and just be a kid. Many children around our area cannot wait for Sunday play day! They come to learn more about Jesus and then play the rest of the day. Most children have a lot of chores and helping around their homes that playing is a luxury. We are thankful we are able to give them that gift.

Figuring out the height of the new poles to help the swing set be more stable.

The holes are dug for the posts going up for a small version of slide and swings for the little ones!

Everyone is enamored with the amount of power tools from America! It makes the work here go a lot smoother and quicker. Tom has been bringing quality tools little by little  since his first trip in 2012.

Later in the afternoon of day one they were getting a lot of little eyes watching them work!

An American generator that came on the container has been such a blessing for all the American power tools to work well!

Lily, Levi, Kipchumba, Moses and Lucy.

As you can see new top beams and middle beams were installed to make a stout and sturdy tire swing and swing set area!!

Tom and Bryan up on the ladders to drill holes through the telephone pole type beams to hold industrial tire swing hardware! 

Lucy, Moses and Levi.

The beams are in place for the little one's play area!

The swing sets and the little one's play area both needed the generator to power the tools so it had to be in the middle! Lucy and Moses saw it as a nice line to jump over!