Carpentry Class

 

Inti Inte (Carpentry/Welding Teacher).

Inti also has grown up very near the mission center.  He graduated from a welding school and has worked in a carpentry shop.  He now teaches both to our vo-tech students.  

 

The carpentry students are progressing well.  Inti is teaching basic carpentry skills; after only six months they have made night stands, cupboards, beds, dining room chairs, and doors,  They already have some customers wanting to buy these items; the proceeds will be used to buy more and better tools. We have discussed the possibility of having the students build the furniture for the apartment upstairs.  It seems fitting that our own people furnish the apartment. 

Carpentry Class The carpentry class has remained at five.  We have not begun to aggressively recruit as working space is limited in the small rent house.  However, we learned recently that the owner of our development is planning to rent the large building adjacent to the Mission Center.  This building is spacious, sturdy, and because of its location close to the Mission Center, one guard could overlook everything.  This building, if we can get it, will house classes in carpentry, welding, and hopefully, in the near future an auto repair school.

What is needed now is a skilled team of carpenters from the U.S. that could teach these young men some carpentry refining skills: to teach how to finish the wood, how to make and install drawers, how to make each piece look professional.

  

FEBRUARY 2010 UPDATE:

Our carpentry class has been busy learning skills.  A recent project was making children's chairs to be used in our Little Hands for Jesus classes.  What a blessing to see these young men acquire skills and bless the Mission Center with much needed supplies. 

 

 


 

October 2008 UPDATE:

Both welding and carpentry classes had run out of supplies so we spent the day Wednesday picking up various steel items for making bars for the windows, doors, etc.  Inti arranged to get laurel lumber from a vendor in Puerto Cortes.  There is a man in Seis De Mayo who has some trees at the foot of the mountain.  We plan to start working with him so the young men will get experience in actually harvesting the trees and producing lumber. If they learn how to harvest the trees and produce lumber, they won't be constrained to find lumber to build items to sell.  I am amazed at the continual open doors that God has given us to continue this ministry.  We thank you for being a part of this ministry.  Keep praying for the young lives of Seis De Mayo.