Two Blogs This Week! - This is #2 of 2

There are two blogs posted this week, so if you did not see the 1st one yet, be sure to look at it also!

If you think we have run up the white flag and surrendered, that's not the case!

When the wind is blowing, you will see that the white flag actually is the emblem for the Evangelical Lutheran Churcn in America as shown below the picture.

The flag is temporary until the steeple arrives later this summer!

The worship platform is set with wire reinforcement mesh and is ready for a concrete pour.

Other sections of the worship center floor will be poured in multiple sessions due to the slope of the floor.

The shiny metal sheets used for the roof and the floors are cut to fit with a circular cutting blade, a noisy and tedious process.

And speaking of these metal sheets, workers are busy filling in the floor sections of the lobby outside the worship space.

This is a view across what will be the lobby on the upper level outsde the worship center.

And speaking of lobbies, this view is from inside the main lobby on the lower level looking towards what will eventually be the front entrance. If you can imagine the glass and brick and trimwork, you get an idea of what a grand entrance this will be!

As we end this week, the skeleton is just about complete. We hope that this picture generates some excitement and anticipation in all of your as we really start to see the majesty of this building. Skeleton done--next week we start adding "flesh"!

The gentleman in the picture on the left is somebody that most of you will never meet.  But you own him a lot This is Al Barr who is the site superintendent for Edifice Construction. He is the guy who is juggling a thousand details and pulling them all together to deliver a first-class building to us. Al has been the superintendent on five or six other church jobs, and the most wonderful thing about him is that he not only likes his job....he has a passion for church building! And on top of that, he's a nice guy! If you get the chance to cross paths with Al, please take time to thank him for the great job that he is doing on our new building.
















If it has been a week or more since you have been on the church campus, the new building looked like this last tme you saw it. Around here, however, you can't turn your back for very long because things change very quickly!

Early this week, "things" started popping up on top of the roof.

And in the space of two days, the workers raised and assembled 92 pieces of steel to form the base for the steeple.
























































At midweek, more steel arrived. But we have gone as high as we are going at least until the steeple arrives. So instead of up, we now are going out!

The big yellow crane was moved back, and construction began on the rest of the building.















This part of the building will contain the lobby outside the worship space on the upper level and the front portin of the youth area in the lower level.





























By posting time for this blog, progress was zipping along nicely on the parking lot end of the building. This part of the construction is fairly straightfoward with mostly straight beams and 90-degree angles.


We expect some concrete floors in the worship space next week!