Tuesday was a busy day. The channels were still being pounded into the walls, both in the hallways and the offices. There is no power in the hallways or the offices on directly off the halls. Only Rev. David's office and the administration office on the other end have power. In the meantime, most of the staff has crowded into the administration office. Raja has relocated his own office, which includes the website servers and the video editing computers into the studio. He doesn't seem to care for the move, but he is now in a clean, organized room after we refurbished it last year.

Our Team began the day with paint and chisels. They started painting the lower half of the building's exterior while the hired painters worked on the upper half, dangling over the roof, standing on narrow ledges, and hanging from ladders made from branches lashed together.

Other team members worked in the women's bathroom upstairs, chiseling away the dingy old concrete tiles to make way for new ceramic tile. On the roof, contracted laborers scrubbed the office building in a repeat of last year's work on the studio.

Dad and I climbed up on the studio roof to inspect it. It was cleared and cleaned last year when we were here, but the specially selected "Elasto-bond" coating wasn't applied until long after we departed. I'm happy to report that the new coating seems to be holding. Our treated white roof is remarkably cooler than the untreated dark tile roofs that are so common here. We're confident that the office building will be substantially cooler when the work here is finished. The contractors we worked with have also been regularly clearing the debris off of the studio roof to prevent the problems that led to last year's work being necessary. It seems we've taught India about "preventative maintenance."