Shipyard Update!

Hey everyone, we could use some fresh prayers… our departure date from Durban to Cape Town has been moved up from 19 January to  30 January. One of the reasons for this is because we are having trouble getting our pipes back to their previous destinations…Ahem, a slight oversight when taking the pipes out and not labelling them to return them to their previous homes…However, our on ship crew and Durban shipyard workers have laid approx. 7 km of wire...it has been a complex project! Here is some additional information sent to us recently from our CEO:
"Currently the shipyard are in the final phases of completing the piping systems on board, some, including the sea water systems for the air-conditioning systems are complete and tested.  The fuel system will be flushed through beginning Tuesday 28th.  All other systems are supposed to be complete and tested by January 9th.  The plan is to start the first generator January 10th.  After that there will be a series of tests and commissioning trials of the gensets themselves. We are allowing almost three weeks for that process to take place.  This means our revised completion date here in the shipyard is now January 28th 2011.
Our plan is to depart Durban on January 30th 2011.
If we don’t manage to get away January 30th and prior to the 8th Feb then we have allowed for a minimum of 24 hours in Cape Town and still arrive in Freetown between February 20-25th.”
 

Where do the pipes go???



Our crew is anxious to be back together as one community and to get to Sierra Leone and start doing what we are called here to do once again…help the vulnerable whom need our specialized help and care to bring healing to West Africa! Please pray with us…

Love, Carol

P.S. Photos supplies by Murray Crawford (crew member)