drumroll please......
WE HAVE A CHAPEL!!!
(well at least the room for the chapel is finished and ready to be filled!)
The week before Fr. Thierry arrived, we slaved way to get the chapel painted and cleaned. This is no simple painting--first you have to scrape off the wallpaper like substance from the walls after dousing with water, then you have to re-gibbs (or re-cement and seal) every surface of the walls, but especially where there has been damage to the walls, and then sandpaper all the surfaces to make sure the paint goes on even, and then paint it first white, and then another color you can choose (we only had blue donated to us...but it was fortunately PERFECT!).
so these were us in the Gibbs/Sand-papering face
and voila!! a heavenly chapel!
On the Wednesday of that week, a former Heart's Home missionary and good friend of Monika's, Uli, came to Vienna to spend some time, look at a few things around the city, and then join us on a retreat Fr. Thierry would be leading us through the first two days of his visit. Thanks to her dedicated help the whole day on Friday we managed to get the painting finished, the windows washed, and the floor cleaned of all the grime, gibbs, and paint.
as a little reward and thank you to Uli, Monika brought a projector home on loan from the school where she works, we set it up against the one white wall left in our living room (specifically for a projector wall...yes, we are praying for a free or really really cheap projector to make presentations or show movies for cultural and art evenings), and watched the documentary on the life and art of Sean Scully (an Irish artist recently awarded by Heart's Home at the annual Gala in New York City to raise money for Heart's Home. Oh and of course....to accompany the movie we ordered a few pizzas in with a plethora of coupons and discounts Monika had been storing up! What a treat!!!
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