A New Adventure

I am excited. But I am also nervous. I am about to embark on a ten day adventure to Jamaica. While in Jamaica I will be meeting up with several other people. The goal of these ten days is to build an earth bag house. Since I do not know these other people and I am not sure just what we will be doing work wise I am sure we will be learning alot as we go.
I have been informed the work will be labor intensive and as one who works sitting behind a desk I realize this is going to be a stretch for me. In my past I have had some labor intensive jobs sucha s working at a lumber yard but that has been years ago so as I head toward 60 I will do my best to keep up with the others on the work site. I was reminded by a church member to take advair and I am planning to do so because of my kayaking experience last summer in the Caymans where Christy and i were the oldest people on the tour and tried to proved we could our paddle the others. I woke up later that night with very sore shoulders. Needless to say I plan on doing a better job pacing myself.
I look forward to meeting new people and making some new friends as we work along side each other.
You are probably wondering why on earth is a 59 year old pastor wanting to spend 10 days working to build such a house. It is my plan to learn how to build such a building and take the knowledge I have learned to Haiti and teach people how to build suitable housing for minimal cost and help the people of Haiti to help themselves in the working toward sustainable housing.
I feel that I have been blessed in so many ways and as one who has achieved far more than others have ever expected of me and more than I have ever expected of myself it is only right that I give something back to the world that has made all this possible.
I appreciate the opportunity that has come my way and appreciate a church that understands my passion by allowing me to take this venture. I also appreciate my family giving me the encouragement to go on so many mission trips.
Over then next few days I hope to have access to blog each evening and hopefully post some pictures of my experience. I look forward to a great experience.