Gidwood Chapel Christmas Photos -- December 2009

Took the photos and forgot to put them on the website.  Here are two of the better ones, taken by our Superintendent Dave Beckett.

Work team from Raymond, MS -- July 11-25

We're excited to have a team from Raymond, MS (led by Rev. Mike Sahler) come join us again this summer.  Pastor Jim Doepken knows Mike from visits at Forrest, MS and a wonderful visit with the folks from Raymond last April.  They were up here last Summer with friends from outside of Hattiesburg, MS.

Welcome aboard, Raymond folks.

Three Work Teams Confirmed for 2010

June 19-26 -- MONROE, INDIANA TEAM

June 27- July 4 -- B.U.M.P. MISSION TEAM FROM OKLAHOMA

July 4 - July 11 -- Zionsville UMC, INDIANA TEAM

Late January Update on our Building Process

It is truly amazing how much WAITING is involved in construction, particularly when you're trying to be faithful with your money and don't necessarily want to pay top dollar, even if that's the person who can get it done the quickest.  As many of our readers know, we finally got our water line put in at the very end of October of 2009, over a year after we thought it would be done.  The company that did it blessed us greatly and we are thankful.  However, it took a long time finding anyone who would be willing to do it for us.

Well, winter is in full-swing and our slopes are white and our ground is frozen it looks like we're about two weeks away from getting power to the building.  The electric line was put in during December.  It's all a matter of inspections at this point and we're trying to get our state inspector to work with the municipality of Anchorage.

We have been in dialogue with an electrician from Zionsville, IN to come on up and do a lot of our electrical work for/with us.  We'll have to use diesel heaters as we don't have boilers going as of yet.  We're hoping to get the proper electrical wiring to our boilers and air handlers. and then get the following done in terms of fixtures and switches: offices, then the sanctuary, the bathrooms, the narthex, the library, the fellowship room, the classroom, the kitchen, outdoor lights.  How this will work depends on what our electrician friend thinks.

We hope to contract out the hanging of the remaining sheetrock.  It's a big job and needs some special skill considering how high some of it is.

If you'd like to send up a work team, please let me know.

Peace,

Jim



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