Camp Saaka...Faith Quest preparation
Camp Saaka is our where we host Faith Quest each year. We purchased this land about nine years ago with the dream of developing a youth camp and training center. We have been preparing for months for this years Faith Quest.
Preparing to host over 200 youth has its unique challenges. Dick helped to build a number of small structures at the camp.
The first thing we did was to fix the doors, windows and floor of the staff store room. The doors, windows and even part of the roof had been stolen.
Dick worked until 3:00AM to build this three hole toilet. It may not look like much because he didn't get the doors on or the the walls plastered but this outhouse is built over a twenty foot hole. The men chiselled through solid rock to make the hole.
This is the area that we call the director's village. This is the staff dining with our brand new mahogony tables.
This year the staff has hot showers. This is how we warm the water.
Just fill the barrel with water and build a fire under it.
This is our new staff shower house. The water is warmed in the barrel and then carried up and put in the metal buckets on the roof. Nice hot showers!
We built a fifty foot metal roof to shade the tents using recycled telephone poles.
We had seperate kitchen for the staff this year.
I know it might be a little strange to take a picture of a toilet but I wanted the guys who might come next year to help us with Faith Quest to see this beautiful structure. Many toilets are just a hole in the ground. This is a real sit down toilet at Camp Saaka. You are not going to have to walk a mile and a half back to the airstrip if you want this luxury. This toilet is in honor of our last couple of Faith Quest teams from the US. (Greg, Steve, Jono, Wendy, Jessy, Jason and Ike.)
This is for you!
For the last four weeks two men from church have been overseeing the cutting and clearing of the bush. There has been a lot of work on everyone's part to get ready for Faith Quest.
posted by Jeff Cash @ 8:38 AM
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5 Comments:
That is incredible. Tell Dick I look forward to using the toilet. And hot showers? I am impressed. I pray that this work will encourage the kingdom for many years. You are quite a visionary, Jeff, thank you for blessing your part of the world and sharing it with us.
Oh Boy! What Jason said. Man oh man the camp looks very good. I am planning on making it back in 2006. That way I can partake in omelets, toilets, and any other "lets" that you will let me. Tell Dick and all that helped, the Camp is absolutely beautiful. However I want them to know that the Camp would be nothing without God's people there praising and learning about Him. Take care and God bless.
I love seeing the camp through your photos, Jeff! Let's see, when Allan and I visited you were just cutting out the ampitheatre. You all have done great work!
When we were there 2 1/2 years ago, you had one mud hut, the unfinished storage room which was planned for a residence and the amphitheater. Now to see the improvements ya'll have made fills my heart with joy and further vindicates the vision and dream you had some 9 years ago when you found the land. You keep dreaming and teach the young men how to dream and watch God make those dreams come true. We love you! Lynn
oh wow, that toilet is the greatest. Now, me, I could even do without the hot shower, but I'd be hard pressed to do without a toilet....and I grew up with outhouses..I guess that's showing my age. I'm so constantly impressed with the work your family is accomplishing so far away. We miss you.
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