facility renovations

I just wanted to take a moment to update you all on what has been going on with our church facility. We have had many updates and repairs over the past couple of weeks. If you need a reminder of some of our damage, here is the link to the post with pictures of some of our damage.

Here are a couple of updates...

Two trucks...a U-Haul from Henderson Bible Church and an 18-wheeler from Gospel Literature filled our gym with supplies. We have everything from clothing, toiletries and food for New Orleanians to cots, tools and cleaning supplies for work teams. Good stuff.



Matt Tayloe called me a couple of weeks ago. Calvary Chapel New Orleans is an active and vibrant church that is fairly new to the New Orleans area. They wanted to help us out by purchasing some of the items needed for our kitchen. They bought a fridge, new shelving , a new gas grill and a couple of mini-refrigerators for members to use. You can see the fridge and the shelving above.



Grace Fellowship Church in Johnson City, TN also bought some new appliances for our kitchen. They brought down a double oven, a full fridge, a full freezer, an ice maker and a couple of other miscellaneous items. These new kitchen appliances have been wonderful as we house work teams.


On to the repairs....

Remember the holes in our gym? Well, the first makeshift work team of members of our church and Community Bible Church in Baton Rouge were able to pop the siding back into place. No more holes...and much easier to fix than we expected.



Grace Fellowship also sent down a small work team this past week...and they got a lot done on our facility...including a new fence on one side.


Pleasant Valley Evangelical Church in Niles, OH took on a number of projects. They got some of they guys from Grace Fellowship Church as well as some of the teens from Calvary Church in St. Louis to help them. Here they are...

Our tractor shed is now a full-fledged work shed. It was cleared out two weeks ago by David's Church in Millersburg, PA. The three work teams teamed up to put down a concrete floor and fill it with tools. Now we only need to build in some shelving...


The old portable building is also being used to house supplies. It now has a new roof, a new front door, a new window AC unit and some new exterior walls. Slap some paint on that baby and it'll look good!


The big project that the boys tackled was cutting down the peaks on our main building. The storm blew many of the shingles off of these peaks. We knew that we did not want to reroof unless we did the whole job. Well...it's almost done! The peaks are cut off...new decking...new felt paper...we only need to shingle it now. Wow.


On the inside of the main building...the missing shingles caused some water damage in our nursery. The teams worked to repair the nursery. We could sure use that room on Sunday morning ASAP.

So that is what is going on! We'll keep you posted...