PBC Building Updates

It’s here! We are moving quickly on the demolition of the construction area.

• The block walls around the site have been torn down.
• Jim Skaas gave us his backhoe to use throughout our project for free and also agreed to operate it—this will save us thousands of dollars.
• The construction fence has been installed.
• The salvage efforts of the houses have worked out better than we anticipated. This is saving us much money on dumping as well as meeting the city’s green building ordinance.
• We are in the process of finding a good dump truck for our construction.
• Many men have come to help with the clean up of the demo.

Please continue to be in prayer as we move on in our demo, grading, and soon construction of our new building.

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!