Mission Trip Orientation

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Mission Trip Orientation
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Sunday

• Plan to leave CBC at 600 AM for the drive to El
  Paso
• The drive will take approximately 13 hours,
  making your arrival time around 600 PM
• You will see a lot of I-10 along the way

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Sunday
When you get to El Paso, you will be closer to
San Diego than you are to Houston..
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by about 25 miles.
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Sunday

• You will stay at an El Paso church overnight

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Monday

• And get up very early the next morning

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Monday

• After an early breakfast, youll go to meet your
  Casas por Cristo rep at their office

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Meeting with Casas rep
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Monday

• After a quick meeting, youll load up and follow
  the Casas rep across the border into Juarez

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Thats the F2F trailer
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Monday

• Youll go to the Casas warehouse and load the
  tool kit used to build the house

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Casas warehouse
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Monday

• After dropping off your luggage-bins and supplies
  at the church in Juarez, youll head to the
  jobsite

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Monday

• And this is when the work begins

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Framing for the foundation
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Checking it for square
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Monday

• then digging the trench for the perimeter beam
  of the foundation.

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The ground is usually sandy
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The results from all that digging
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Monday

• Work continues with measuring and cutting the
  lumber for the wall sections and roof panels

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Measure twice
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cut once.
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Monday

• When the concrete truck arrives, youll pour the
  slab

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Monday

• Directly into the form if the truck can get
  close

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Monday

• youll be lifting the wheelbarrow if it cant

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its not too heavy.
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Monday

• Youll screed, float and smooth as youre pouring
  the slab

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Thats a screed
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and thats a float.
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Monday
While the slab cures, everyone keeps busy
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cutting chicken wire
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Monday

• and framing the walls and roof sections

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framing the walls
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with openings for doors
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and windows.
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Monday

• cutting insulation

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Monday

• painting the trim

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Monday

• Later in the day, after the slab has cured, it
  will be floated smooth one more time

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Did you notice theyre wearing knee pads?
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We forgot to tell them about the knee padssorry
guys.
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Monday

• End of Day One

PREPARE FOUNDATION
FRAME ROOF PANELS
POUR CONCRETE
CUT CHICKEN WIRE
CUT LUMBER
CUT INSULATION
FRAME WALL PANELS
SMOOTH FOUNDATION
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Tuesday

• Day two starts with assembling the wall sections
  and lifting them on to the foundation

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This is two wall sections being joined together
with a piece of 2x4 called a top-plate.
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Another look at that top-plate
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Lifting the walls
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and nailing them in place.
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Tuesday
Keep at work installing windows
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Each house gets two windows.
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Tuesday

• and installing blackboard

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The blackboard provides a moisture-resistant
backing for the stucco.
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Tuesday

• installing outlet boxes and running electrical
  wiring

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Tuesday

• installing insulation

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Did you notice the temporary bracing?
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Thats the trim for the windows and door. Youll
re-use it later.
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Tuesday

• Sifting the sand for the stucco is like a day at
  the beach

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sort of.
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Tuesday

• Next up is installing the chicken wire

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or poultry netting if you prefer.
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You stretch it tight and nail it in place.
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Tuesday
Moving the roof panels to the house is next and
its a BIG job
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Tuesday
And once you get them in place, you lift them
onto the house
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Everybody lift on 3...
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(Theres two people inside to catch the roof
panels.)
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Tuesday
Now that the roof panels are in place, the
decking and roofing go up and on
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Decking goes down first
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Then the tar-paper and the roofing material.
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Tuesday
Next up is drywall for the ceiling and installing
the roof soffit
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Tuesday

• End of Day Two

WOW! What a busy day! This morning there was
just a piece of concrete, and now there is a
house with walls and windows and a roof. You
have a lot of work tomorrow, but youll finish it
in no time.
ASSEMBLE WALLS
INSTALL INSULATION
LIFT WALLS ON SLAB
SIFT SAND FOR STUCCO
INSTALL WINDOWS
INSTALL CHICKEN WIRE
INSTALL BLACKBOARD
MOVE AND LIFT ROOF
INSTALL ROOFING
ELECTRICAL BOXES
DRYWALL CEILING
INSTALL WIRING
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Wednesday
Day three starts off with mixing the stucco.
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Stucco is a mix of sand, cement and lime.
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Loaded into a mixer
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by hand from buckets.
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Then you get it on the walls.
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Listen carefullyits important to do this right.
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The stucco goes from the mixer to the wheelbarrow
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to the wall.
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Wednesday
The stucco gets finished by texturing it with a
soft trowel.
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and youre done.
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Wednesday

• While the stucco is going on the walls outside
• the drywall is going on the walls inside

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The ceiling was done yesterday, so just walls
today.
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Wednesday
You finish up with a ceiling fan, light fixture
and wall plates inside, an exterior door and
lockset and a light fixture outside
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Wednesday
If its hot enough (August trip), the stucco will
dry enough in a few hours and you can paint the
house
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if not (Winter and Spring trip), the stucco
probably wont be dry enough to paint
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so you can stand on the roof instead.
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Wednesday
Finally, after 3-days of hard work, you dedicate
the house and give this family their home
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Wednesday
The last part of the dedication is driving the
final two nails, and placing the Casas por Cristo
plaque on the roof, declaring this to be a house
from Christ
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Wednesday
After the home is complete, you will have a
chance to sit down and hear about the history of
Casas por Cristo
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Wednesday
After cleaning the church, youll get lunch in
Juarez, and cross the border back to El Paso
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Wednesday
and meet at the Casas office to buy t-shirts and
souvenirs
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Wednesday
a quick dinner and one more night in the El Paso
church
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Wednesday
and youre ready for 12 hours of I-10
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PRAY
GIVE
DONATE
GO
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