Building project coming up

Within the next 2 months I will be traveling to the small Wairarapa town of Martinborough to assist in the construction of a new Kingdom Hall there. During this period I will be out of communication with the users of this blog. Before that, however, there is another build coming up on Marton (north of Palmerston North) in the North Island of New Zealand.

Those of you who have been on similar projects know what a wonderful experience it can be to help with such a work. Over the years I've lost count of the number of such projects. There have been at least six others including Upper Hutt (my first), Lower Hutt, West Wellington, Hastings, Shannon, Featherston, Foxton, Porirua, Masterton, East Napier, Wainuiomata, Pahiatua,(the list goes on). In Pahiatua nobody seemed to believe it could be done. Cars drove by for days while the locals took in the progress. Some just could not believe what they saw. All of these projects were successful in spite of the usual problems. Anyone who has been there knows the fine record of these events. Some are just renovations, while others are a complete rebuild on an existing site. Pahiatua was a memorable one. It was stripped down to the ground and then rebuilt from scratch in a matter of days! The towns' people could not believe it. The impact was only increased because it was completed long before a local church group who employed a professional builder to finish their place of worship. Have you had experiences like this?