March 18

Our building preparation is coming along great! We are doing our best to save the Lord’s money in every way possible Richard Lazo is doing a great job negotiating prices with many different companies that will provide material and in some cases, labor.

  • Tal Neumann helped the church purchase a Bobcat. This will save us thousands in rental fees and when we are done with it, we can turn around and sell it.
  • Richard Lazo had a great meeting with the company AMS. They informed us that they will charge 1/2 the price they offered a year ago.
  • Richard Lazo met with the fire alarm company in Los Angeles that Charlie Zalzos works for. His company will give us a large discount and allow us to use our men to work with them.
  • We also have received a new P.A. Audio/Visual proposal that is projected to save us tens of thousands of dollars in our sound design.

We are making significant progress with our demo preparations.

  • We had a meeting with the city’s historic preservation officer who confirmed that we are on track to getting the demo permits by the end of April.
  • On Saturday Tal Neumann and Kevin Castanon started the demo of the amphitheater, and also removed the light poles from the basketball court.
  • Our first official workday will be on Saturday, March 28, in preparation to demo the houses and level the basketball court/play area.
  • We need as many men as possible to come and work, and ladies to cook as well.

Please be in prayer for our pre-construction projects, building, and our May 1st Executing Together Banquet. Pray the Lord will do a work in your life and provide at least $1,000 for you to give on banquet night. For some this may be a struggle, but for others, this may not take much faith. If you know that this amount won’t stretch your faith, ask the Lord to show you an amount that will cause you to depend on Him. He wants us to show we need him each step of the way.