Benefits — May 30,2010
May 30th, 2010Hello friends,
We have a couple things to show you this week.
First, regarding our self-help projects for each home: We do want the projects to develop and become successful to provide some income for each family. We also believe the projects are good training for the families; teaching them valuable life-lessons about discipline, planning, cooperation, and hard work. But another benefit can be that we help those still living in the villages. With our pig farming projects, several families have enlisted poor villagers to help feed and care for the pigs. We provide money to build the pens and shelters, and then we buy the small piglets, provide food, and allow the villagers to raise the pigs and share the profit.
Please pray that God will bless our families and all of their projects. May a bountiful harvest point every eye to God, our Faithful Provider.
Grace and Peace to you,
Dave & Shirley Callahan
This is one of the village houses where we’ve built a pig-farming project.
The villagers live in very humble circumstances…here you see the sleeping and cooking space with bamboo walls.
Our 10 small pigs are already growing in this new project. We have started three small pig farming projects.
With the arrival of occasional rain and high humidity, it’s also time to start growing mushrooms again.
At Home of Comfort, the boys worked with their house father to rebuild a “mushroom hut” with bamboo and straw.
The completed hut will be filled with plastic bags that each contains some sawdust and a mushroom starter.
When the hut is finished, and the bags have been soaked, the dark enclosure and humidity do the rest…delicious mushrooms
bloom from the open end of each bag and can be harvested, then re-grow in just a couple days.
