The Foyer
The Worship Area
Meeting rooms
Kitchen
Rear View and Car Park
The Church!
Tuesday 25 March 2008
Friday 21 March 2008
Finished, on time and under budget!
Grand Designs, eat your heart out! At 2:00 pm yesterday, we received the keys to the building. It was finished on time and under budget. All credit to Mayway construction for this fantastic achievement. The first service is on Easter Sunday at 10:15 a.m., all welcome!
Between now and then its a case of getting all the furniture and fittings into the building from their storage spaces in various garages around the local area and setting up the PA, staging and chairs in time for Sunday.
Its difficult to describe the sense of excitement and accomplishment. The actual build time has been short, September 'til March, but the planning, praying, giving and fundraising has taken years. It is the end of a journey, but the beginning of a new chapter as St John's Church now begins to use its building to serve the local community to be a place where people find help, friendship and hope and come to have faith in Jesus Christ.
Watch this space for photographs and hopefully a video clip of the completed building.
Between now and then its a case of getting all the furniture and fittings into the building from their storage spaces in various garages around the local area and setting up the PA, staging and chairs in time for Sunday.
Its difficult to describe the sense of excitement and accomplishment. The actual build time has been short, September 'til March, but the planning, praying, giving and fundraising has taken years. It is the end of a journey, but the beginning of a new chapter as St John's Church now begins to use its building to serve the local community to be a place where people find help, friendship and hope and come to have faith in Jesus Christ.
Watch this space for photographs and hopefully a video clip of the completed building.
Saturday 8 March 2008
Finishing touches
The builders have almost finished on site, so its really been the turn of church members and their friends, families and acquaintances to put in place the finishing touches.
A team of painters have been on site this week, both professional (thanks to Babic and Son) and volunteer, to finish the gloss work and touch up the walls. The kitchens are almost complete (again, thanks to all the volunteers, and particularly to Steve Sparham) and the flooring has started. Tim Lovegrove and his team at Carpetright have been fantastic.
Work around the PA and computer systems is underway with Keith Ellis on site and others due to join him.
The builders have been working externally to finish the paving and the tarmac is due to be laid this week. Work on the final internal bits of plumbing will commence and the moveable screen to sub-divide the classroom will be fitted.
We are all looking forward to the first service in the building on Easter Sunday.
A team of painters have been on site this week, both professional (thanks to Babic and Son) and volunteer, to finish the gloss work and touch up the walls. The kitchens are almost complete (again, thanks to all the volunteers, and particularly to Steve Sparham) and the flooring has started. Tim Lovegrove and his team at Carpetright have been fantastic.
Work around the PA and computer systems is underway with Keith Ellis on site and others due to join him.
The builders have been working externally to finish the paving and the tarmac is due to be laid this week. Work on the final internal bits of plumbing will commence and the moveable screen to sub-divide the classroom will be fitted.
We are all looking forward to the first service in the building on Easter Sunday.
Saturday 1 March 2008
Three weeks left
Since the last entry nothing worth photographing has taken place but a lot of work has been undertaken. All the plumbing is finished and the building now has heat. The electrics will be finished in the next week but all the lighting is in place and functioning. the flooring to the wet areas has been laid and the other rooms will be started next week. From the photo you can see that the porta cabins have now been removed and the ground work is well under way.
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