Category: Update

We have had a great week in our pre-construction/demolition preparation work. Many men came out on Saturday and worked very hard to complete our projects. We are now in the process of salvaging and selling many items from the demolition area.

• The chain link fence has been sold and removed.
• The basketball hoops have been sold and removed.

Here are some current updates:

• The staff are still situating themselves, but are completely moved out.
• The new church copy room project is on its way. The wall is framed and new cabinets are being installed.
• The kitchen at the Daisy house is complete. This project is wrapping up, and we are now demobilizing and cleaning up.
• Our construction fence is scheduled to go up this Monday!

Praise God for His favor. Please continue to pray for our building.

Praise God for continuing to bless our pre-building planning as we get close to breaking ground! Within the past week God has sent us two great money-saving blessings:

• We saved $10,000 as our concrete company decided not to charge us a dumping fee.
• We were told by our architects that we must have a very difficult and expensive foundation for our new building. We would not be able to do this job ourselves. Praise the Lord that after our soil was re-tested we got great results and were told that we would be able to have a conventional foundation and do the work ourselves-saving us hundreds of thousands of dollars!

Thank you for being faithful in prayer for our new building. God is answering in a mighty way. Please continue to pray. Also, Don’t forget that our new Executing Together building commitments begin THIS SUNDAY JUNE 7th. Pray that our church will be faithful in keeping their new commitments.

Thank you again for your faithfulness!

Neighbor’s House Project (for completion of terms and conditions for our approval)

• Lori Neumann helped us to save a couple of hundred dollars by finding great deals on the new trees that we will be planting on the parkway.
• John Rose did a great job a couple of weeks ago and cut down the existing trees that needed to be replaced.
• The block wall should be complete this Saturday.

Main Patio Project (for more room for our church until we are in our new building)

• The taping, mud, and texture is complete.
• The ceiling is ready for paint.

Girls Dorm Project (for the girls to live in as we will be demolishing their present dorm)

• Timothy Esposito, Miguel Guevara, and Rathana Sin have done a great job at completing the girls dormitory. All we need to do is lay some carpet, and it will be ready for the girls to move in.
• The new kitchen and bathroom area is on its way. The ceiling joists are in, and we are framing and running the electrical this week.

New Sunday School Patio Project (for more Sunday school space as we prepare to build)

• The new Sunday school patio has been raised.
• We will put a roof on it and it will be ready for us to use.

Bro. Board’s Office (for Bro. Board to move in as his present office will be used for more space during construction)

• This office is nearly complete.
• It just needs a few finishing touches.
• Larry Robertson has done a great job tackling this project.
• Bro. Board should be ready to move in next week.

Demolition (clearing the area for the construction of our new buildings)

• The asbestos is scheduled to be removed this Wednesday in the two houses and garage.

Praise God for the many men and ladies who worked and cooked at our pre-construction work party on March 28th and April 4th. Our NEW BUILDING is closer than ever because we have made significant progress on our pre-construction projects.
Here is a brief update on them:

• The drywall for our patio is now complete.
• The brown coat of stucco for our neighbor’s wall is complete (for terms and conditions of our NEW BUILDING.
• The sheds and soda/candy machines were moved to provide a play area once we begin the demo of the basketball area, and construction of our NEW BUILDING.
• The new girls’ dorm that they will move into once we begin the construction of our NEW BUILDING is underway.
• The new patio on the corner that we will be using for Sunday school space during the construction of our NEW BUILDING had the concrete poured, stamping finished, footing completed, and fence constructed.
• Richard Lazo has a meeting scheduled with the engineers in Atlanta to help find our MEP (construction) drawings. When he is out there he will meet with Bro. Shumpert to begin planning to get more volunteer labor. It also looks like Bro. Shumpert can get us our new carpet rolls at a 50% discount.
• As we think of the preliminary preparations and actual construction of our NEW BUILDING, we are so grateful that the Lord is working in a mighty way through our building campaign. There have been so many testimonies of the Lord working and providing thorough our church family. Many, many people will be able to give even more than they ever anticipated because they had that little faith as a grain of mustard seed.

As the banquet is less the three weeks away, I encourage you to pray and ask the Lord to continue working through each member in our church. Ask the Lord to do a special, supernatural work in your life personally in regard to giving at least $1,000 on the night of the banquet, and at least $20 weekly. The Lord has already provided this for many. To all of us, please pray that this banquet would be a tool in your life to stretch your faith and that you would give for our NEW BUILDING what the Lord wants you to.

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.