Shopping for Joe

God provided some funds for Joe’s house! Here’s Joe with the plywood installed for the inside walls. Just as I was taking this photo, Linet announced cheerfully and optimistically, “Joe will have a new life here!”

This is the fundi. He’s putting in the “glasses” for the window.

God also provided some funds for basic household goods for Joe. Linet and I spent about two hours shopping for him. [Interestingly, it was Linet that helped me do a lot of my shopping when I first occupied my house at Matunda almost six years ago.] While we shopped, Joe preached for the lunch-hour service at Bishop’s church.

We got most of the kitchen items (dishes, mugs, silverware, pots, 50 liter water storage container, etc) at “Chairman’s” shop. He’s one of Bishop’s church members. (In fact, he’s the one that moved my things when I rented my house almost a year ago). He’s standing here with his wife.

Linet and a shop owner fold up a large curtain we purchased. Joe will use it to partition his small house into a sleeping area and a sitting room area.

Joe with some of the items that we purchased. I think one of the things that made him the happiest was an “exercise book” or tablet (you can see it barely sticking out of the black bag) and the “slippers” (flip flops).