Domenico Marinozzi blessed and inaugurated the church and the missionary house at Gassa Chare, the new Provincial capital, a large village that is still under construction and is expanding. The mission stands on a hill in a superbly panoramic and very windy position. Our first three missionaries, after living for many months in a shed made of metal sheeting that served for everything because there was nothing else, now have a nice little house built in wood and mud with four small rooms, a small kitchen and a bathroom. Fifty metres below it is the church. This is a large hall for religious services, catechesis and for other purposes, with three smaller rooms beside it to house guests.
Lighting is provided by candles and water from a small aqueduct.
Next to the missionaries' house, another house is being built for some young boys and catechists. The missionaries have planted many trees all around. The valuable activity of the nuns who work with us above all in the care of children and women, as well as in evangelisation and catechesis is beginning. Good catechists and translators are urgently needed and indispensable. Construction is well under way on a house not far from that of the missionaries at Gassa Chare where the catechists and some boys that are thought to be suited to becoming themselves catechists or trainers will be able to live.