13 October 2017 This is how they set up a Distribution Center in Sierra Leone.  We have been hearing for over a year that we were getting one and it is finally here.  Everything came in crates.  Top picture you can see the white lady and she has been instrumental in getting our store.  The store is in the basement of the church building. 

 Brent was out and about talking to the guards, I had to have him in one of these pictures.  It is history being made here in Freetown. 

 Above is Crispin in front of some of the shelves.  He works at the Distribution center in our building right now as a volunteer.  They are going to hire someone to run the new store.  Below is another picture of the shelves as they were shipped in the crates and along the wall you can see boxes of garments waiting for the shelves. 

 This huge truck delivered the crates and then could not turn around in our compound.  He backed into the tree and broke it. 

 Then the driver pulled forward and took our a bunch of cement bricks along the roadway.  Some of the men started hitting the cement bricks with big hammers and moving them so the truck could turn around.  He hit the other side of the wall too and took big chunks out of it.  The really sad thing is all of those things were just fixed a couple of months ago.  He did something to the truck and couldn't drive it so he left it in our drive way for the day while it was worked on.  There was no other choice.  That happens a lot here.  Where ever a vehicle breaks down it stays until it gets fixed.  Sometimes it is in the middle of the road in traffic. 

Above is one of our care takers that is cleaning up the mess of the tree.  He used a machete to cut up the branches.