A week in the Life

As most of you know now I have recently started my job as CMA Manager here on centre, there is much to keep me busy here with grass to be constantly cut, leaves raked, hedges cut, trees pruned and felled even footpaths washed.

So to give u a wee idea of what I do and who I work with I have some photos below to help give You all some perspective on my work.

Joshua Trimming hedges, this gets done usually once every 2 months or so not for vanity but necessity as plants here never really stop growing!
How do you dispose of all Your rubbish? You put it in your bin and the nice friendly binmen take it away to a land fill somewhere. We don't have any binmen here no do we have a landfill site so we have to deal with it ourselves by digging a large pit and burning and burying the rubbish, you may ask why not recycle? Well the simple answer is that there are no or very few facilities here for that.
Power washing footpaths twice a year done for safety reasons, as we live in the tropics we have lots of rain at times and also lots of heat which combines nicely on cement to make a nice slime which is very slippy. above is Joshua (not the same as the first pic) who also work with me.
This is how to load a wheel barrow!!! this is James who helps in cleaning up once a week when this was taken we were cleaning banana trees (they aren't trees but a herb).
We have Lots of trees on center therefore lots of pruning and felling. trees here are amazing they grow so fast, trees planted 7-8 years ago are now 30 - 40 ft in height. We have palm trees coconut trees, Mango trees, avocado trees, frangapnai and many other types all in desperate need of maintenance.
Daryl is our base mechanic, he helps me with a lot of my mower maintenance he also looks after the center generators and vehicles. this is Seth his son.
Again we are cutting hedges, this is Micheal cutting here who has worked on center for about 12 years and just recently lost his wife.

Finally cutting grass done once a week, takes about a day to do with 2 ride-on mowers a push mower and a brush cutter.

I hope this gives u a bit of an idea of what i'm doing here, i was recently asked to take a class for the home schooled kids teaching them the New Testament taking a full school year to cover the whole New Testament, its a lot of work but its a real privilege to do it.

Please pray for me as i interact with the guys who work with me Michael, James, Joshua y., and Joshua T, pray my life would be an example to them of Christ.

pray for my new job in the school and for the students i will be teaching.

in September i have been asked to go to the NTM HQ for a few weeks to prune some trees for them, pray for safety and wisdom with this job.