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• We made much progress this week clearing the site preparing for the ground breaking ceremony.
• We also had another week of the skip loader rental at no charge!
• Much time was spent on performing dirt containment and preparing for the grading.
• We bagged several hundred sandbags and repositioned the construction fence.
• Shane Manley, who is heading up the electrical underground project, is getting ready to start this project very soon.
• Tal Neumann and Kevin Castanon both spent time this week planning the onsite sewer relocation and trench layout. Both of these projects will be done by our great men, which will save us tens of thousands of dollars!

Site Clearing Update

• This week our mighty volunteers have worked on clearing and leveling the construction site. They have done a great job!
• We are approximately 85% complete and are expected to be done before our ground breaking ceremony on August 30.
• John Ellis also gave us several free days this week on our equipment rental. The equipment rental is $275/day!

Construction Preparation Update

• We had our material delivered for the underground electrical feed that we will be doing ourselves.
• Shane Manly is heading up this project and is doing a great job He and our volunteers will help us save over $5,000 in labor alone for this project!
• We also are moving forward with the sewer reroute. Our engineer came out and staked out the run and marked the site up so we can dig the trenches in the proper location.

Special Building Blessing

• Since we successfully recycled the required amount of debris in our demo project, we received a $3,000 check from the city for complying with their “green building” policies. PRAISE THE LORD!

God is truly showing His favor on our building program. He is sending us many blessings that we never expected.

• This week, we rented a skip loader and material separator screen.
• John Ellis, from Ellis equipment, gave us a great deal and donated 8 hrs of his time this week to operate the equipment.
• The Lord has brought us many volunteers this week to operate the equipment.
• The site is leveling out and we are in the process of weeding through all the dirt to remove the concrete and debris.
• We had some lighting on the temporary power poles installed for night time security and safety.
• Richard Lazo had a meeting with Joey Abrot, Pastor Abrot’s brother, who is providing the steel for Bethel Baptist’s new building. We are looking forward to see how the Lord may use Joey to help us on our building project as well.
• Richard Lazo also had a pre-construction meeting at LBWD to coordinate the main sewer reroute with the inspector and city engineer, and we are expected to pull the permit for this work next week.

We praise God for each blessing we have received in our building program. We especially praise the Lord for Richard Lazo and the great job he is doing. Please continue to pray for wisdom and God’s blessing on our building project.

Praise the Lord for the great men of Pacific Baptist! Many men have come out and the clearing effort is over half way complete.

• Our truck drivers, Ivan Esquivel, Oscar Torres, Sam Bonotan, and Daniel Lopez have helped us save thousands of dollars by driving our dump truck for us.
• In the last few weeks our men have broken, loaded, and hauled over 500 tons of concrete—that’s 1 million pounds!
• We have had an average of eight men come every day. A day hasn’t gone by without the Lord sending us hard working laborers.
• Hansen concrete donated three loads of base for free. We used this concrete to make a new truck entry onto our construction site.
• Temporary power is being installed today. We are just a few weeks away from removing the Edison poles.
• John Ellis from Ellis Equipment in Signal hill has agreed to assist us with our equipment rentals as well as volunteering to come to our site and give much of his own time to help operate the equipment.

We had a bid meeting with several companies that will provide us temporary power for our site.

• The bids came back and ranged from $56,000 to less than $8,000.
• Praise the Lord for Jeff Clark of Temp Power Systems as he will help us save money and work with us on this project.

We especially thank God for our dedicated group of men who have been working hard at removing, breaking and hauling the concrete.

• They have removed over 500 tons of concrete and debris.

A lady came by who needs several truck loads of dirt mixed with concrete to fill up her swimming pool.

• This is a blessing because there is much dirt mixed with concrete on the site that needs cleared that requires a lot of hand labor to separate.
• We do not have to separate it any more because she wants it mixed together.
• The best part is that she lives around the corner on the 33rd Street making it a very simple hauling job.

Our structural engineer friend, Fred Nour, has agreed to stamp and sign a collection of drawings that needs to be submitted to the Long Beach City Planning Department.

• He is working with us to save money.
• Donna Rallonza, Bobby Fabros, and Gerry Maranaan are working on our drawings, and Fred will stamp them for free.