Indiana!

But first and foremost,

Big Top 1 went up very nicely on May 2nd, a Saturday with good weather. It was a brand new tent just ordered and boy was it shiny compared to the old one. We had quite a few volunteers come out, one of which I went to school with at BMW and was on Dawn's (my sister) team to Poland in 2003. He stayed at my house for the weekend and it was really good to see him again.

On to the current situation, a group of 7 of us drove to Evansville, Indiana. It was a bit more than a 13.5 hour trip simply because we were driving a 15 passenger van, pulling a fully loaded trailer of the same length. We started up at about 5:30 am and arrived after a few stops for gas and food at 9:45 local time so that'd be 10:45 Eastern time. I think I was the only one who felt like it went by way faster....like seriously felt like maybe 5 hours ha, no I didn't sleep but an hour at the beginning. We've been working on the layout for the outer court and Tabernacle. I worked for a good part of the day repairing the outter skin covering (which water proofs the traveling Tabernacle so we don't need a tent to go over top of the whole thing) The whole area smelled so strongly of vinyl glue and contact cement that we were starting to get light headed. We're in a gymnasium at Triple T ministries (TTT) and we had all the doors open...completely ventilated. It got better after we found some industrial fans to circulate the air. We've also been repairing the bases for the outer part of the Tabernacle.

This afternoon we had a crew of college kids from a local Bible School come out to help put up the tent and do some "Grunt work" as we call it of moving stuff around and doing more layout. I must have driven in what seemed like a hundred stakes (halved tractor wheel axles) into the ground for the tent. It takes a lot of bodies to even get up a smaller version tent so we were grateful for all the help.

Biggest prayer request would be that the rains would stop (and head down to Florida too as they're in a drought!) It's not that we don't mind working in the rain but rather its turning the grounds into a mudhole!
Also, that lots of people would come out to take tours of the Old Testament Tabernacle and that people would come to know Christ through it.

Blessings!

-Danny