More electricity, please!

Managing to juggle enough electricity for our house and the translation office has been one of our on-going struggles. The small building where we've done the translation work is situated about 30 metres from our house, and it doesn't have its own supply of electricity. Thin cables run to it from our house, unfortunately losing rather a lot of power as they go. It has always been difficult, particularly in the afternoon, to run both the office and the house from our solar panels.

Marc had the idea of swapping the office with the schoolroom, which is situated in a small house, also on the mission property. This house has its own solar panels. School only happens in the mornings, so our house would no longer have to provide electricity for another building in the afternoons.

So last month we moved the school into the independent building, and our translation office into the small house. We had help from some of the kids' friends and Pastor Samuel's eldest son, Caleb.



Then we had to make sure the solar panels on the little house weren't too over-shadowed, which meant cutting down some of the trees behind it. Philémon, Caleb and another young man took up that job, and despite a lot of climbing and dodging falling trees, managed it without any injuries! (Can you spot Caleb up in the tree in this next photo?)





I am happy to report that after a few hiccups the new arrangement is now working well!