Spending two days in blazing heat (113F- I call that blazing!) crawling inside used containers was enough to really make us appreciate the A/C back at the house. And the word on the street is that this isn’t even the hottest season! I can wait till then. We found the perfect container- it was a one year old, barely used container, costing only three hundred more than the heavily used eighteen year old containers! But our plans were dashed the next day of our visit- the head office realized their mistake in advertising a new container for sale at a used price. But we remembered what we had recently learned, God must have something better.
Sure enough! That evening while telling our friend about how we’re trying to help the people of Thailand with cheap building solutions, he offered us a steel frame building for the children’s home at his cost! Believe it or not, that then becomes cheaper for us to build a safe western engineered steel frame building for less than the cost of modifying a shipping container! To overcome the portability issue, we plan to purchase land ahead of time and avoid the moving cost. Not only saving in cost, it will also save time, effort, and probably much experimentation.
Not only that, our kind friend offered Lori part-time architectural engineering work to help keep her skills current! And, by partnering with him and having his vast network of contacts available we’ll be able to provide ministries and other organizations with minimal cost building solutions in the future! We can’t help but be amazed how God works everything out better than our expectations!
Thank you for posting such a useful, impressive and a wicked article.
ReplyDeleteWe are with you, and wish you all the best in your endeavour to serve mankind.