Ministerios Ancla de Amor A.C.
Be sure to follow this page to see the progress made by the Elias Family. Updates will be made daily!
Be sure to follow this page to see the progress made by the Elias Family. Updates will be made daily!
Here they are!!! If you have been following the construction progress of our children's home than without a doubt you have heard the story of how we received all the cabinetry from a Cabinet Company in Winkler Manitoba. Here are the families that have made it all happen. Jonathan Elias (Sunvalley Cabinets) and Lorin Elias contacted Brian and asked about the possibility of them building all the cabinetry back in Winkler and shipping it down to Mexico for our children's home. In the Beginning Brian had some reservation's but as time progressed, it certainly appeared that God was putting all the pieces together for this to happen.
Jonathan got to work designing all the cabinetry for the kitchen, bathrooms and Children's rooms. From there, after sharing about the project with their material supplier, they were offered all the materials at a reduced price. It did not take long and Jonathan and Lorin, along with their families were busy cutting, prepping, and packaging all the cabinets for our children's home. We were blessed to watch both the Elias families work together on this project, especially seeing how they included their children. Without a doubt their children will remember this experience.
Once the cabinetry was all bundled up, they loaded them onto a flat deck trailer, and a good friend of Brian offered to haul them down. With easy passage through the USA and Mexican boarder we certainly felt God's favour. The cabinets arrived at Ancla de Amor a week before the Elias families arrived to install them.
So here we are. The Elias families are here and ready to build and install. As mentioned above, this will be an experience that their children will never forget. They worked together as a team to build the cabinets back home in Winkler, now they are working together as a team to assemble and install them at an orphanage in Mexico. I commend Lorin & Jonathan as well as their wives, Nellie and Susan for displaying parenting at its best! Truly great examples to follow and live up too.
I hope you enjoy the photos and are blessed to see how God works in so many ways. To Him be the Glory! Piece by piece this home is coming together and God is using simple, ordinary people to accomplish HUGE things. We are forever thankful for all of you that have made this project happen!
It all started at Home!
It all started at Home!
Here the cabinets are being cleaned and prepped to be packeged into crates. So good to see that this is a family project!
Here is a picture of some of the pieces, over 600 weighing over 7000 lbs!
Jonathan is making sure that it is packaged just right!
Here you can see the care taken to ensure that the material makes it to Mexico in perfect condition. Foam separates the pieces, wrapped in poly and taped with construction tape. After this a crate is built to protect the wood inside.
Good job! Way to go!
All loaded up, tied down and ready for the long trip all the way to Mexico!
Assembling & Installing the Cabinets in the Children's Home at Ancla de Amor!
Assembling & Installing the Cabinets in the Children's Home at Ancla de Amor!
Mike is delivering the crates to the new children's home to be unloaded.
Gentle!!!!
The crates are being dismantled.
Helping to carry all the pieces into the house
The girls are removing all the screws from the crates so that they can re use the ply wood sheets
Way to go buddy! Help out Dad!
Look at all the different pieces! Many different sizes needed for the kitchen, bathroon and children's room cabinets
Hard at work :)
Here Jonathan is carfully stacking all the wood in the house, organizing all the different pieces so that they are ready to assemble boxes tomorrow
Jonathan is installing the first pieces together! Still is hard to believe!
First the put glue along the seam, then they put the board in.
Everything fits together just so.
They are coming together, each child will receive one of these closets. They are 32 inches wide. On top there will be some shelves and a place to hang clothes, on the bottom are three drawers.
Jonathan is busy building many drawers.
Lorin is installing doors on the childrens cubbies.
Here is the inside of the childrens cubby, shelves on the right and hangers on the left.
A job well done!
Beautiful people. So thankful for their service to Ancla!
Our children are connecting and building relationships
Our children are connecting and building relationships
Snack Time
Ancla receives a new member of the family!
Everyone loves her!
Tia Merilin meets the baby! Precious!
Tia Helen meets our little one for the first time. She will be loved so much!
Our Ancla Children meet the newest member of the Ancla family! Very special moment.
Out for supper to a fundraising event for the Anlca Hurricanes!
Taking the time for some fun and relationship building too!
Taking the time for some fun and relationship building too!
Time for snack! All the children are enjoying their morning snacks! Today is cinnimon bun day!
Cinnemon bun Monday! Helen is busy cooking up a storm today.
Georgie and Lorin are getting re aquainted :)
Morning devortions are scheduled for first coffee break. With technology these days it is becomming more and more rare to see the "Good Book" laying out on the table.
Send a word of encouragement and support to the Elias family for all that they have done for the children at Ancla de Amor!
Send a word of encouragement and support to the Elias family for all that they have done for the children at Ancla de Amor!
