Yorito Construction Mission March 2007
The AHMEN team from the Westley United Methodist Church, Decatur, Alabama was in Yorito, Honduras in March and the following is a report. by C.D. and Linda Tripp.

Future Medical Clinic
Part of our assignment was to scope out a possible site for the construction of a proposed medical clinic in Yorito. Land, across the road from the front of the church, was a suggested site but the landowner was out of town and not available until April.
The Cruzadas folks are ahead of the game on this and have a suitable site in mind for this new clinic. They are offering, and suggest that the clinic be built, on the flat area behind Modesto’s church. This way, there would be no land cost and no property title to be prepared. We measured the lot at 50 ft. by 170 ft., which I think is adequate size for the clinic. An entry road to this site could be made in two different locations. There is a group of builders called Kingdom Builders who specialize in projects like this (two of our team members have experience with this, that might provide the management skills to build this clinic). I would recommend that concrete, tile, and/or sheet metal be used, as opposed to wood, for reasons that I will cover under the following comments.

Church Preparation for Team Living
Decisions were made by David and Harriet Kelly that the long-term goal for the upstairs of the church, is a team dormitory. The three small rooms at the back of the church (downstairs) are to contain the team kitchen. The soup kitchen will continue to operate out of Pastor Modesto’s new parsonage. We feel that this would tie-in nicely with the new clinic, if it is built, or continue using the down stairs of the church, if it is not built.
Accordingly, we started to prepare for repairing the floor of Modesto’s old living area: new bathrooms floors and walls upstairs, porch repairs, and kitchen expansion down stairs.
Supplies are hard to come by in Yorito, so we scoped our needs and went shopping. The first two saw mills in Yoro (there’s really no such thing as a “lumber yard”) turned us away at the gate as they were only selling export lumber. The third mill let us go through their cull area and agreed to sell some of it.
There was no way that we could we buy enough wood to replace all the bad flooring, so we bought enough to replace rotten joyces and beams, tongue and groove lumber. We also bought the first of replacement plumbing and some plywood, with the idea in mind that we would over-lay the existing wood flooring, making a base for the new bathrooms stronger than simply a one-ply floor. We could not find to buy siding or shower stalls.