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PART 2 of 2: Why are We Still Using Hammers and Nails?

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PART 2 of 2   UPDATE KYA SANDS  Easter holidays would not be the same without our annual YMP trip.  The group mostly from Wales and England this year descended upon the Judah Africa Ministry Centre and in the standard 10 day window with help from Rainbow FM and other local charities managed to put up a community kitchen, new administration centre and a soon to be ACE school to support the local township.  Community support was higher than we had ever seen with a local building merchant and a crane company donating their services.  These two acts alone allowed for us to not only build the school which was our goal, but add the two other structures as well.  Just amazing what this small team managed to accomplish while hearing the good news of Jesus Christ at the same time. The new location has put the containerized structures on a major roadway.  This has translated into a huge amount of curious people stopping to understand the construction and versatility of t

PART 1 of 1: Why Are We Still Using Hammers and Nails?

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PART 1 of  2 Over 20 years ago Stephen Covey in his book the 7 habits of highly effective people stated that if your life is a hammer you will see everything in life is a nail.  In all my travels I must admit that this has proven true.... If you are an engineer    ...you see everything as a structural problem If your pastor                 ....everything is a problem of the heart If you living in a Township           .... you see everything with a survival instinct, living day to day with no thought of the day after tomorrow...  Each of these views has been shaped by life experience via education environment and peers creating a specific truth... but then again…what is truth...   In order to see truth we must intentionally remove ourselves from the biases we live for example:   Over my past 3 months in Africa I have seen millions and millions of Dollars poured into beautiful 1st world architecture.  People spending huge amounts of energy to comply with European style