Gweru

The building was 11x18 meters. (We guestimated this as 35x50 feet.) I never got the official height, but I'm guessing about 20 feet or so. Construction took two days.

	About halfway between Harare and Gweru, there is a town called Cheguta (the van broke down there when we were returning to Harare). Just outside of this town there was a group of ladies that were selling handmade tableclothes.
	While in Gweru, we stayed in a place called the Midlands Hotel. (I stole this picture from Paul. I hope he doesn't mind.)

	Here is the view from my hotel room.
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Here we have just started. The truss pieces have been laid out, but nothing has ben assembled yet.

	Here the trusses are being assembled.

	After assembling the trusses, they were stood up and placed on the footings (lots of people holding ropes for this). Then the purlons were added, which connected the trusses together.
	All that is left for the center section is tighen up the cross support rods. (This picture seems be a bit distorted. There really isn't a bend in the walls.)
	The center section is finished.
	Everything is done but the roof. (This is where we stopped for the day.)

	As we were finishing putting the trusses together, we noticed that there was a problem with the footings. The bolts that were embedded in the footings were rotated 90º from where they needed to be. This caused us a bit of concern, but we were able to work around it. Turns out this was because the last building that Dean (the missionary) had put up had a different bolt position than this one, and he assumed they were the same without checking. Needless to say, we gave him a hard time about that for the rest of the trip.
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On goes the roof.

	Half of the roof is on.

And the building is complete. Well, our part is. The walls and floor will be added later after the congregation has raised the money.

	This is the view to the east and west (respectively) from the church.