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2010-Chile

Disaster Relief work with the Chilean Baptist Union. Steve Trammell, pastor of Lifepoint and Danny Pickens went to help. We were supposed to join others there but everyone had already left for the winter.
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Danny holds the Texas flag and Bernardino holds the Chilean flag in clebration of the completion of our project
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Danny holds the Texas flag and Bernardino holds the Chilean flag in clebration of the completion of our project

Chile2010

  • The completed ceiling
  • Bernardino, looks worried about our work.
  • Danny holds the Texas flag and Bernardino holds the Chilean flag in clebration of the completion of our project
  • The resturant where we had lunch on Wednesday.
  • There was a lot of graffiti in the city
  • The Templo Votivo, Maipu,Chile<br /> <br /> After victory over the Spaniards at the battle of Maipú in 1818, Bernardo O’Higgins himself proposed construction of a tributary temple to the Virgen del Carmen, Chile’s patron saint. Begun shortly thereafter, the original temple went unfinished until 1887, then suffered such serious damage in the earthquakes of 1906 and 1927 that this new modernist—some might say brutalist—church was constructed of reinforced concrete. Architect Juan Martínez Gutiérrez began the project in 1944, dropping out 20 years later, and not until 1974 was it complete.
  • Cleaning up a fallen wall at a parsonage
  • Steve be-friends "Watson" before we begin work
  • Catholic Altar
  • Steve prepares to vent some frustration on the damaged wall
  • Having a little fun
  • View from the neighbor's house
  • Swinging a hammer
  • Tearing down the remnantsof the fallen wall.
  • The mound of rubble from the fallen wall. Tomorrow we load it all into a truck to be hauled away.
  • Cleaning up a fallen wall at a parsonage
  • The final attack on the last rock in the yard
  • Earthquake damaged apartments
  • The only view we have had thus far of the mountian range.
  • It finally cleared for a few hours this morning to allow us to see the mountain range
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