P&B Online / Pensions & Benefits USA Church of the Nazarene

Our eagerness to serve masked our lack of experience and know-how. Here we were—ten members of a Work & Witness team in a foreign land with the responsibility to set about 2,400 square feet of porcelain floor tile. After a quick training session, a couple of guys on the team set up the cutting station. The rest of us divided into work groups and began laying out the plan for each of the rooms. We quickly discovered the rooms were not square—not even one corner formed a 90-degree angle. What amounted to a small variation the length of a 12-inch tile could be more than an inch at the other end of the room. We saw up close the fact that small things can make a big difference… MORE