Team,

The amazing truss news arrived Tuesday morning mid our morning worship time. A bit emotional for me to say the least.  A long awaited gift from above!  

We accomplished so much this week getting ready to install the roof trusses and doing more plumber demo work.

We rented a heavy duty breaker to break up the men’s room floor. We shoveled and dug out the broken concrete and hauled it away.  We then cut out all of the buried abandoned heating pipes.  We are now ready for the plumber. 

Next we unbanded some of the trusses and began the long talked about but little understood curve that needed to be cut in the trusses.  A template was made and we cut 9 trusses. Then added the soffit extensions and curved end facia.  It’s amazing how you can bend wood!  These were placed on the conference room roof.  

We then attacked building a double truss for the rear of the building.  Put plywood on it and built the soffit extensions.  All of this work was necessary to be done in preparation of the big truss install day. 

The gigantic telehandler we rented arrived on schedule.  A much need piece of equipment to lift the trusses and plywood.  

The old septic tank was removed, new plumbing installed and a new larger tank was installed. 

The concrete crew began their footing dig which is really wide and deep.   They should finish the digging on Monday.  Concrete to follow.  

The new temporary wall was painted and we made covers for all of the large holes in the floor for safety reasons. 

It was great working along side the Mission Builders team as they taught us a lot about construction.  It’s a terrific group of people to work with. 

None of the building process would be possible without your continued dedication.  Putting in long days and going home exhausted.  

Let’s keep building!

Thanks
Steve

Team,

You accomplished a lot this past week working side by side with the Mission Builders. 
More interior metal walls were built in the rear classrooms.  More electrical circuits and fixtures were removed.  Two truck loads of metal was hauled away to the recycler and it paid over $250.  And like every day there is always sweeping up debris and hauling the debris to the dump.

The plumber located one of the sewer lines in the new bathroom and we cut out more of the concrete floor and dug down to expose the pipe.  The plumber also located the sewer pipe in the warming kitchen and we dug down and exposed that pipe as well.

We had a big turn out of volunteers this week (Tom, Mike, Dave, Brian and Steve) so we attacked the work necessary to install the raised roof section above the new conference room.  We cut back the rubber roof, removed the itchy insulation panels,  removed all of the plywood and cut off the ceiling joists.   Next was the raising of the large front wall up on the roof, which really slid right into place.  Many hands made the job easier.  Next we tackled installing the rear roof wall which was certainly not as heavy as the front wall.   Things are starting to come together. 

Like always the work couldn’t be done with out our dedicated volunteers who give up 4-5 days a week of their time to build our church. 
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Thank you for all that you do.

Steve