I spent this past weekend down in Mexico with the Eben Ezer project. My buddies from Kairos & Hope International Church, Dustin & Rob, and I traveled 7 hours south to a little town in the Mexican desert called San Jacinto. We spent a couple days working on an earth dome house that is currently being built for the director of an elderly home and his wife.
In an area with VERY little natural resources available, Jose Luis and his wife Anjela are currently living in a small trailer and this home will provide them with running water and even a loft. The temperature will be naturally regulated as the materials used to build the dome are nothing more than dirt, sand, and water. The structure will exist much like a cave, with very small temperature variances; in the midst of the hot Mexican desert.
Relative to housing costs either in either the United States or Mexico, this dome will be incredibly inexpensive to construct and maintain! This project is especially neat for the ministry of Kairos out here because we take bi-weekly trips down to work on the dome and several students from UCLA are very excited to be a part of the work we're doing.
Volunteers drive down usually on Friday morning, set up tents on the property and work from sun-up till sun-down all weekend. Below are some pictures from my trip as well as some from other trips. Please be in prayer for our teams as they continually go south to serve. Thanks!
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Shortly after arriving; the dome is under the blue tarps.
The creator of the project; Dustin, standing on top of the unfinished dome.
The cement mixer in the background is what produces those lovely white walls.
The mounds of dirt are sifted, then mixed with sand and water to make concrete.
Rob & I taking a break at the ocean by a shipwreck.
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