Extreme Makeover - Peru Edition

Wow, what a crazy/fun/HOT week last week was! I'm trying to get over "the crud" so excuse my coughing! Anyways, husband and I had the opportunity to work on a fun project this last week for the organization "Extreme Nazarene". This is the same organization that we went to Argentina with this last year. So, they recruited husband and I, Travis and Wende, Debbie, and even my Sister-in-Law Korri to come out and work on outfitting a HUGE semi trailer for their marketing this next year for their new project in Peru.

So, the best way to describe what we did was basically to have you watch any episode of "Extreme Makeover" and there you have it-that is what we did in a nutshell, only it was inside of a semi trailer. Basically, some guy donated the use of his big-rig for the next year for Extreme to use as their way to market their next big event in Peru. So they will travel across country stopping at churches along the way, and when they pull up to your church, they'll open up the back of the trailer and from their you enter into another world; Peru. The guy donating the use of his truck is paying for gas and everything! (which is about $1 a mile!) So our job was to outfit the trailer to give onlookers the experience of feeling like they were standing in different parts of peru. So husband and Travis were in charge of framing and some electrical stuff, and the ladies were in charge of the rest. Brian Tibbs, who is in charge of Extreme, took 4 massively cool pictures of 4 different sides of Peru which he then had turned into murals that were basically 3 panels of wallpaper that we glued to the walls-and wall-la you feel like you're standing in Peru. It was pretty amazing to see how God pulled the whole thing together! We had 1 week to finish the truck, which meant paint, glue, decorate, all of these had to come together in about 5 days. And, it is about 90 degrees on average every day here, now, and did I happen to mention that the semi is painted black? I soon began to refer to the truck as the "black beast" because it was at least 10 degrees hotter inside than it was outside. So anyways, the truck leaves tomorrow for it's maiden voyage to Seattle where it's journey begins to spread the good news.

So, if you happen to see the "black beast" entering into your town, I encourage you to stop by and take a tour-it is pretty cool the work that they are going to be doing over in Peru. And who knows, maybe you'll want to get involved somehow?


The "Black Beast"
Korri working hard the first day, which consisted of us mainly painting for 6 hours! Yikes!!
Debbie posing next to her "floating village" mural. Apparently up to 5,000 people can live on these floating villages made up of reeds tied tightly together!
Debbie and her finished "hut"-which is going to hide the AC unit nicely!
The poverty side of Peru (this was part of my room)
This is me laying pavers in the "rich side" of Peru (also in my room)...Don't look too close, I'm pretty sure I have sweat stains on my shirt!
Husband putting up a fake corrugated metal roof in my room
an old motor bike we found on craigslist for the "brothel" room
Our little Peanut :) I had to throw this picture in!