NEW EAGLE MOUNTAIN TABERNACLE UPDATE

Lots has been happening up at the work site. The building is now completely roofed and the all of the sheet rock has been hung. Now that the roof is on I'll have to stop calling it a work site as it feels more like a building now.

The sheet rock guys were amazing. They hung that sheet rock with the speed and intensity of a nascar pit crew, and they maintained that pace all day. They managed to hang all of the sheetrock in one day. I was impressed.

The night before the sheetrock guys came I saw these switches on the wall and wondered if they worked. Out of curiosity I flicked a few switches and was rewarded by the lights overhead coming on.

Wow!

It's really coming together, huh? The sheet rock guys are going to return this Saturday to tape and texture. I'll try to get some good action shots of that for you.

Keith is looking into possibly buying a scissor lift like one of these. How else would we change the light bullbs? I'm not climbing a ladder up there!!!

NEW WORSHIP CENTER UPDATE

I apologize for letting so much time slip by between updates. Thanks to God for all that has been completed up at the building site. In summary, the steel supports have arrived and been installed. Much of the roof and insulation has been installed and a lot of progress has been made on hanging the sheets of fiberboard on the exterior of the building.

They brought in this crane to lift and move all of the heavy steel.

That's a lot of steel dangling overhead, hardhat-shmardhat! If that sucker comes down, you better be right with the Lord!

Keith has fallen in love with this lift I think. The contractor has kindly allowed us the use of it after his guys are done with it for the day, and Keith has been busily using it to cut dead limbs throughout the camp as well as hanging fiberboard to the outside of the building.

It seems much bigger in person with all of the wall panels in place. It's going to be a really big space.

They got all of the steel pieces up.

These wire straps are what hold the insulation up under the sheets of roofing.

Here's what it looks like with the insulation installed

Before the building is completed there will be porches and walkways on the side of the building. Keith has been constructing the porches in the maintenance building, and here you can see he's already installed a part of it to the side of the building over the door.

I'll try and get you another update soon.