To get started, we decided we needed to wall off the church, and put in a gate, so that we could close the property to the general public, but still leave the church open.

So we started building a 70 meter brick wall that is 8 feet high.

As we were finishing some of the neighbourhood ruffians beat someone really badly behind our church. Somebody else caught it on video, and wanted to go to the police or tv. Long story short, the police could not help, but they advised us to build our walls. We still had about 90 meters that was really old, broken down fences. So, we kept the bricks and cement coming, and built another huge wall.

We had to prepare a place to sleep about 25 people, and cooking and eating. For the meeting place we converted the tractor shed. The gates were installed days or hours before the event started. But it all happened…its all happening. Months of teamwork, and it all came together. May this be the first of many retreats like this.

Many of the women brought their own mattresses and electric fans. Most just brought hammocks to sleep in.