Dec. 1- Pix

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Dropping Down and Putting Up

Construction continues to make progress, and my level of anticipation is high.  We hope to use the Nursery for the first time this Sunday at both services.  The Grand Foyer has a ceiling and heat...or so we hope.  You should be able to enter via the main entrance off the parking lot, but if not, the old office entrance will be available so you don't need to travel around outside.  Even Mary and Joseph have found a new location by the church sign as they await the birth of Jesus.  We plan to decorate the sanctuary on Saturday, December 17th following a class on Christmas Bow making.

(Paster Hedin)

As ususal, we start our photographic tour outside.  We looked out one of the windows of the foyer towards Lincoln Ave. (after all, it's starting to get kind of chilly out there) and we see workers preparing the walkway from the Lincoln ave into the Grand Foyer.

At the left, we get a good view of the cedar siding that another crew is working on.
Next we head to the basement, and instead of a large room, we see a hallway with several good sized rooms off of it.

Sexton Ash  informs us that he extends the wall on Thursday, making individual rooms for use during Sunday School.  Then on each Monday, he pushes the walls back to make one large room for Scout activities.

It's great to have that flexibility.

 
Here we peek into one of the rooms.
As the tour continues, we now move into the Grand Foyer and see that they're in the process up putting up the grid that will support the drop ceiling.  Pretty soon, all those pipes and ducts will be out of sight, out of mind.
This explains how the workers get up there to put the ceiling in place--scaffolding.
A close up view of the ceiling.  Hmm...We wonder what's going to happen down there by the stained glass windows.  We assume that that little alcove will have a higher ceiling so the full window is exposed.  
We found Ash, our Sexton, hard at work in the basement. Ash was gone on vacation for a while, but everybody's glad to have him back.  

 

 
In and amongst all the construction, we still put up some Christmas decorations.  We won't a little construction get in our way from celebrating what's really important--the coming birth of Christ.