Pico Project Update

One of our goals at Pico Escondido is to continually improve it. From the start, we have invited work teams from the US to come help us make Pico Escondido and excellent place for meet Jesus and grow in their faith. Each year we identify our top priorities for projects, and those projects that have enough tasks that are appropriate for volunteers we complete with work teams as we are able. It is fun to see progress, not only for Pico staff, but for the volunteers who have worked on these projects and people who regularly come to Pico. This Spring I was speaking with the director of a Christian school in Santo Domingo that has multiple retreats at Pico every year. He told me that one of the reasons he loves coming to Pico is that while many facilities he has visited steadily degrade year after year, Pico continues to steadily improve. Below I will paste some sequences of pictures of projects from this year to show how they have progressed. We had 173 work team participants in the March and April, two small teams last week and next week, and then we will have about 150 more people come in June. Most of the projects we started in March we hope to finish between now and the end of June to once again present a "new and improved" Pico Escondido to five weeks of outreach camp participants in July and August. Stay tuned for more pictures.

Enramada (Dining Hall) Improvements

Starting demo work to make way for new roof columns

Wall Going Up

Roof Columns Going In

Siding Being Prepped

Siding Being Installed

Almost Done!

Parking Area Improvements

Clearing and digging first footer

Starting walls

Blockwork done and base coat of stucco on

Amphitheater

First Aid Hut

Old Rock Work Removed

Walls Started, Sidewalk being Repaired

Walls Almost Done

Walls Done, Ready for Roof Forms

Giant Swing Gazebo

Benches Getting Installed

Benches Sanded

Benches Stained

Door Installed

Thanks to all who worked on these projects!