adelaide place baptist church

Over the past few years at AP we have shared a giant Christmas card and used the money saved to buy chickens, goats, bicycles and other useful stuff for people in developing countries.

This year we’re doing something different. We’re going to buy a brick-making machine for Reuben N’gwala, a Tanzanian pastor who worshipped with us while studying in Glasgow for three years.

Reuben N'gwala

The brick-making machine will help Reuben to build accommodation at a Bible College in rural Tanzania, upgrading the living conditions for the students. The machine presses bricks from a mixture of earth and cement, reducing the amount of cement needed (ratios of around 1 part cement to 14-18 parts earth), enabling the bricks to be made on-site, reducing the energy needed to manufacture the bricks (they are cured, not fired), and enabling the buildings to use less mortar as the bricks are shaped to be interlocking. Overall the machine should reduce building costs by over 20%. The machine can continue to be used by Reuben’s team for other building projects in the area, generating much-needed income.

Making interlocking bricks

We’ll post here how we get on!

There seems to be so little time to stop and ask the BIG QUESTIONS. Questions about God, about our world, about our purpose and our future. At Adelaide Place Baptist Church we are taking some time to ponder, and we’d love it if you would ponder with us.

See our What Matters? event page.

The Southside Housegroup have just started a short series looking at how we can apply biblical principles to our response to Climate Change (better term: Global Climate Destabilisation). You can follow our discussion on a dedicated web page.