Construction and building work at Casa Semear

It´s been more than three years since we started building a missionary house in the backyard of Casa Semear. This house will serve as living space for long-term and short-term missionaries who come to work with us at the community center. We can finally tell you that we´re in the final stage of this building project!

Starting the building work in 2010

At the end of 2010

The missionary house in 2011

2012

June of 2013

In the beginning of June, a small group of young people from a church in Pennsylvania, USA, came on a mission trip to Brazil to help us out with the finishing touches of this big building project. They worked really hard during a whole week and were able to finish all the external painting work of the missionary house. The results are great! 

Thank you, Bill, Jessica, Olivia and Annie, for your hard work and dedication during your time at Casa Semear! We also want to thank Delton and Seu Luiz who supervised the group and worked as hard as they did!

Final result!

Thanks to a very generous donation from a church in Holland, we´ve already started furnishing this house. It´s been wonderful to see God provide everything we need to improve the structure of the project and we´re very grateful to Him for giving us the opportunity to create a nice living space, so we´re able to receive well the people who are willing to come work with us and serve the kids and families we attend at Casa Semear. 

                          The bathroom totally equipped and ready to be used

                          Working hard to finish the kitchen and living room too

The new bunk bed ready to be used

But the building work around Casa Semear doesn´t stop at this point… There are still many other things to do! Our next project is focused on turning the concrete backyard of Casa Semear into a nice playground area for the kids to enjoy. In the neighborhood where these kids live, there´s not even one park, square or playground area where they can run around, play and meet each other in a space properly developed for them, so it´ll be really great to be able to offer them at least a small playground area to safely play in at the community center.

We´re also planning on doing some building work in Casa Semear´s main kitchen area. We would like to improve and enlarge the kitchen structure and create a big, well equipped kitchen that will not only serve for preparing food and snacks for the kids´ program, but will also serve as a good place for giving cooking and baking classes and workshops for moms and women from the community.  

              Seu Luiz working hard to put two new windows in the kitchen walls

So there are many challenges still ahead of us and we know that we depend on God´s provision in order to one day see all these desires become reality, desires that are focused on better serving the kids and families God has put on our path.

Last but not least, we would like to share with you some of the things that have been on our hearts, things we´ve been praying for and we would like to ask you to join us in prayer for Casa Semear, for the lives of the kids and families we work with, so the Kingdom of God would grow:

• Pray for God´s provision for Casa Semear. As we´ve already mentioned, we have many challenges ahead of us and we´re going to need the finances in order to go on with the building projects.  

• Something we´ve been continuously asking God for, is a bigger team! We urgently need more people willing to join us and work full-time together with us at Casa Semear.  

• Pray for the lives of the more or less 80 kids and teenagers who are participating in Casa Semear´s program. It is our biggest desire to see their lives being totally transformed by God´s love! We can see small changes every now and then, but we would like to see so much more! Pray that God would work in their lives and hearts so that they will come to truly know Him! 

May God bless you!

The Casa Semear team