tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19730731256993278382011-07-30T17:24:41.778-07:00Emmanuel Presbyterian Church's construction project takes work from members. Here's what's needed next.Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17455669622864348868noreply@blogger.comBlogger1481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973073125699327838.post-26322509499611998472009-11-09T17:02:00.000-08:002009-11-09T20:20:13.081-08:00

Emmanuel's new facilities were filled to capacity with people who came out for a musical evening of singing and playing in honor of Doris Frederick and in support of Dr. Lori Mercer.Doris was a recent head of the church's Mission and Outreach Committee, a church elder who had served on session, and a woman through whom Christ's love and love of life shone minute-by-minute. Highly organized and

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This series of 38 photos takes about 76 seconds to track construction from the same point of view ... pretty much ... as the architect's sketch of the front of the building. It starts the day we moved the organ and piano out of the sanctuary and ends Sunday, Oct. 25.Remember, if you can not see the photos on the blog, you may need to install a new version of Flash on your computer. This is

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The first big fellowship event in our new fellowship space involved lots of kids and parents and pumpkin pieces. This starts with a few photos of the outside of the building in nearly its final form. Only the cross and the brickwork around the awning support remain unfinished outside, I think. Then, there are a few shots of pumpkin carvers, and the treats they got. Each pumpkin carved received an

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On Consecration Sunday, the sanctuary was filled to overflowing with old friends and new families. The folding rear wall was opened so that all could be seated. Pastor Steve welcomed the congregation to the future of Emmanuel. Deb and Liz reported on the highly successful open house the previous day. Corey Schlosser-Hall, executive presbyter of North Puget Sound Presbytery, gave an energetic

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Visitors, neighbors, family, friends and church members surged through the brand-new doors of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church Saturday to be welcomed by friends and by loved ones, and then given informal tours of our new and rebuilt facilities.The steady stream of visitors got a steady stream of cookies, cakes and breads, plus various refreshments. The kitchen pass-through featured a thank-you

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Warren spent most of Friday afternoon up in the air on scaffolding washing the inside of the windows in the clerestory. He also suspended a cross from the east window of the clerestory. This is the cross that for the past year has hung every Sunday on a banner in front of the congregation. Then, he went even higher to replace a porcelain fixture holding a naked bulb. He installed a spotlight

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And then they got up and worked all day on building projects. There were 13 diners, including the two cooks, Frank and Dave McC, at the first monthly Men's Fellowship Breakfast in the new building. Among those chowing down on pancakes, sausage patties, hash browns, scrambled eggs, coffee and orange juice in addition to the cooks were Warren, Bill, Bob, Earl, Jim, Erik, Lee, Dave S., Clair, Larry

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When Sydney and I arrived at the church on Tuesday about 5:15 p.m. for a meeting, we found that the front doors now have four double-glass panes in them, which, I found out later, Warren and Bob J. had installed that day. Sue caught some photos earlier in the day as the windows went in.After the monthly men's fellowship breakfast on Saturday, plans are to assemble a crew to tackle completion of

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This is sort of a "best of" gallery tracing the demolition and reconstruction of the north side of the church building. There are 59 images. But they go by in about 2 minutes. It's roughly one photo every five days of roughly the same view if not from exactly the same position. Pretty much in order, watch for foundation, floors, walls, clerestory, roofing, windows, doors, water line, fire main

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It was a quiet construction week at the church. Larry finished putting up shelves in the nursery, preschool rooms and in the broom closet outside the kitchen, among other things. He also hung a whiteboard and bulletin board in the room that will be used by the preschool, by the Sunday school and for lots of meetings.Meanwhile, fancy new multiline phones were installed in the church and school

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We have now held our first Sunday worship and education in the newly rebuilt sanctuary, fellowship hall, offices and classrooms. After service, there was fellowship, plus the Worship Committee met, the stewardship campaign directors conferred on a video and the Youth Choir rehearsed. I caught some but not all of the happy happenings in the accompanying photos. Our music in worship included hymns

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On Saturday, many congregation members gathered to prepare the sanctuary for our first Sunday worship in the new building. Construction tools and materials, plus a scaffolding, were being stored in the room or had been moved there as the rest of the building came into use during the week. Earlier in the morning, Kendra's senior project blood drive had set up in the fellowship and entrance area.

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It's getting really close to our first service in the new building this Sunday. There's still a lot of work to be done to get ready.It would really help to have a crew at the church at 10 a.m. on Saturday to move chairs into the sanctuary. It will take about six of us to get it done: three to get the chairs down from the attic (it's very cramped up there) and three to move them and set them up in

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The fellow in the first four photos was with one of the groups that is already using our building for night meetings. He waited outside to direct those arriving to the right room for the meeting.Earlier Monday, Warren hung the light fixtures in the central gallery of the clerestory, as well as on both sides near the offices and the entrance to the sanctuary. The uplight was installed down the

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Sunday was our last worship service at St. Brendan's Catholic Church gymnasium during our exodus for reconstruction. Next Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009, we will once again worship in our own sanctuary.Sue took these photos. The congregation gathered, sang its last "First Hymn" in St. Brendan's, heard Liz thank Larry and Mary Anne, and Jane, who opened their homes once a week for choir practice. And Jane

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The most noticeable thing that happened on Friday was that the folding wall that used to hang in the narthex was rehung between classrooms two and three. Larry, Paul and Lee spent an hour or so on it. The job turned out to be easier than had been feared.

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Clean up continued outside. Inside, departments started to get organized.Rebecca Kaake of the Puget Sound Blood Center and Kendra Davison of Emmanuel checked out plans for blood drive in the entry area of the church on Saturday, Sept. 26. It will be Kendra's senior project for high school graduation.The next day will be our first Sunday worship in the new building.

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After all of Tuesday's excitement of moving the mobile units out and getting the organ and piano back, Wednesday was less exciting. But Sue was there and caught some of the action in these photos, which are all hers.Larry mowed the lawn, and Lee fertilized the new parts. Larry hooked on to an underground power cable for the mobile units with his truck and pulled it out. Paul, Larry and Lee spent

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Two big events in one day as we get ready to worship in the new building. Most visible is that the MobileMini crew arrived -- two days early -- and took away the mobile units. Larry, Paul, Warren, Bob J. and Bill were scrambling all afternoon to unhook ramps, water, sewer and electricity. The preschool unit was moved out late in the afternoon. Still lots of cleanup to do.Sue was there. Here's her

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Connie prepared a lovely table in the fellowship area with coffee and cookies for the parents of students on the first day of preschool in the new facility.The crew of Warren, Larry, Paul, Bob J. and Dick spent much of Monday tearing down the stairways and ramps that an even-larger crew had spent a couple of days building more than a year ago. Much of the lumber involved may find its way into

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The preschool opened today in their wonderful new classrooms. Pastor Steve and Rena' were both moved into their new offices in the main building over the weekend. The pastor has a lot of unpacking to do today.Lots of construction related equipment and supplies continue to occupy space in the various storage areas and in the middle of the fellowship area. Dozens of small projects remain to be

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Here are some pictures from Saturday at the construction site. The preschool rooms were all ready for their students to arrive on Monday. The sanctuary was pretty much cleared out. The restrooms were nearly finished (a few partition doors were still needed). And deconstruction continued on the mobile units.

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The city of Bothell's building inspector signed off on our occupancy permit late Friday afternoon, allowing the preschool to open on Monday and Pastor Steve and Rena' to move the church offices out of the mobile units and into the church.Besides all the grins in the photos above you'll notice that there is still a LOT of cleaning up to do. Stop by this weekend if you can. Marvel at what God and

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Sue's photos and report from Thursday:After the carpet job was complete, Judy Kuiken vacuumed the whole area on Thursday. Then the pews, communion table and pulpit were moved back in. Bill Sharp had taken the crosses home to clean and renew their finish, and had reinstalled them on Wednesday. They look wonderful, and are now back in their place of honor. Thursday, Warren put the "crash bars" on

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Sue's photos and report from Wednesday: I was at church on Wednesday while they installed the new folding door. The panels are quite heavy. Once the men were finished installing them Paul got instruction on how to open and close them. It's not something you can just pull across as we did with the folding door in the former narthex, which now is being used in the classroom wing.Bill came by to

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By shortly after noon on Tuesday only the school office and some storerooms were without carpets. The carpets went down in the sanctuary during the morning. It looked like the cutting and fitting there could take much of the day.Meanwhile, there was much activity in the preschool rooms all morning with teachers and assistants getting the lay of the land.Larry and Paul were everywhere installing

Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17455669622864348868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973073125699327838.post-21236342439959653352009-09-06T20:30:00.000-07:002009-09-08T21:04:09.511-07:00

On Saturday, Sharon the preschool director, her dad and some parents and their children were busy assembling new furniture for the classrooms. Very exciting. There was a good showing for Work Party day. Just about everything on Larry's list was accomplished. Lots of tools, buckets, boxes and spare supplies were moved from the sanctuary into storage rooms or the fellowship area. The sanctuary

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As Rena' said, "We need your help this Saturday, Sept. 5, at 9 a.m.! We'll be completing work that needs to be done to the church sanctuary." Not much notice here, but as the new construction has moved along -- carpets were going down in the new areas Thursday and Friday -- lots of tools, boxes, materials and other large things too big to put anywhere else -- were moved into the sanctuary until

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Sue took these photos and gives us this report from Tuesday at the construction site: Warren [was] sponging and putting the leveling stuff on the floor near the entry. ... Since he is now working in the main area of the building he has to do it after everyone else has gone for the day. He was up there until after 9 p.m. Tuesday night. This group of pictures includes ... the toilets and wash

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So, Warren is putting out the call for window -- and wall -- washers. The bulk of construction, the sorts of things that get globs of dirt on windows, is over. Now is the time to remove those globs of dirt and films of grime from all the first floor windows, inside and out. Please bring your Windex and towels, and go to it! There are ladders of all sizes available at the church.Also, almost all

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Early Friday, Larry and Mary Anne hurriedly shuttled between Home Depot and McLendon's finding outdoor lighting fixtures for the classroom wing, the kitchen and offices. It took two roundtrips, Mary Anne said, but the results look great.As the week ended, lots of doors had handles, the preschool playyard fence neared completion, the kitchen was ready for finish painting, some sinks were installed

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Sue got the call Thursday morning to run over to the church construction site where the crew was pouring, tamping, rolling and burning a smooth, solid transition from the new concrete plaza in front of the church to the old blacktop driveway. Her photos show the crew doing a fine job and doing it quickly.Says Sue: I almost missed them. The asphalt was already in place but they were still

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These are miscellaneous things that have happened early in the week.The toilets were delivered. The sealing of the kitchen drywalling is done. The bathrooms were unwrapped after painting. You can now see the difference in the decorative tile used in the men's and women's rooms. The access to the crawlspace under the classrooms by the back door was finished with a door and box (and there's that

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Sue has been busy again gathering evidence of progress on the church construction. These photos show work on improving the entrance to the areas under the buildings, plus drywall mudding in the kitchen, and delivery of chips for the preschoolers.

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Certainly, a lot has gone on at the church the week ending Friday, August 21. The final joint material for the front awning arrived. The outside fire alarm was installed. Drywall was going up in the kitchen, as was the pass-through counter. Warren was running wires for the organ speakers over the sanctuary entrance doors.Painting was everywhere with lovely pastels emerging here and there among

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Painters spent the week ending Friday, August 14, getting ready to paint. Everything that was going to be painted next week was covered or wrapped or taped. There was still some sanding going on. Meanwhile, the Emmanuel crew had been been busy.Temporary hollow-core doors replaced raggedy sheets of plywood at the main entrance. Counters for the sinks were built and installed in the restrooms. All

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Sue caught a couple of shots of the hydroseeders at work during the second application on the remaining bare spots on Wednesday, August 12. This is the truck the stuff came in.Here, it's almost finished being spread on a bare spot in front of the main entrance.A little closer look.

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Most everything that won't be painted is covered in plastic or paper: windows, doors, cabinets, vinyl floors, tile, alarms, switches and so on. Rooms have been neatened up. Dick and Judy spent all morning Wednesday tackling the mess that the sanctuary has been. They tossed junk and moved the good stuff into organized, covered piles away from the walls. Larry and Paul moved old, but still usable

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The front of the building just keeps getting closer to that "architect's rendering" we are so familiar with. On Friday, Bram had all the crossbeams up on the awning supports in front of the main entrance. And almost all of them were fastened down tight.Larry finished putting up our "house number" on the front of the building. Inside, Guy had pretty well finished installing baseboards all over the

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Well, the first two numerals in our address are up on the front of the building. The other three sit, ready for painting, on a stack of privacy partitions that will be put in the restrooms.Bram has been working on the awning crossbeams. He's moved them underneath the main beams and drilled the necessary holes for inserting the large lag screws that will connect the crossbeams to the two main

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Some of the crossbeams went up for the entryway awning over the weekend. Several more still need to be raised, and some that are up need to be fully screwed down. Nonetheless, it is a very visible sign of progress. Less visibly, on Monday Bill replaced the eight old cracked panes of glass in the hidden side windows behind the altar with new, clear glass. That finishes the glazing work in the

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Doors provided opportunity for photos on Friday, starting outside, with construction of the frame for the doors to the utility basement underneath the restrooms.Inside Warren's brother, Guy, was installing the door frames and hanging the doors that had been delivered earlier in the week. In the photos below you will see a door for the main offices, which also has its trim in place, and a few feet

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On Tuesday, Warren spent much of his time putting down ceramic tile on the floor of the men's restroom. These tiles were about a foot square. Other tiles that will go on the wall are about an inch square. Others, even smaller and multi-colored will be used for decorative borders. In the women's restroom, a vinyl backsplash was installed on one wall.Meanwhile, outside, Coles sanded and stained the

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It was exciting to see the cabinets hung in the preschool rooms on Friday, among the first of the finishing touches on the new building. The first was probably the vinyl flooring, which also has been installed now in both preschool rooms.Several more visible signs of progress are expected this coming week. Coles has readied the cross beams for staining and placing on top of the big beams

Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17455669622864348868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973073125699327838.post-28718096618195098592009-07-20T23:52:00.000-07:002009-07-23T00:28:37.187-07:00

Last week, lots of dirt got moved one wheelbarrow full at a time as 14 yards of topsoil were placed around the construction site. It's a sign that the outside work is almost finished. Thanks to Larry and Paul the grounds are as clean as they have been in months. In the process, they replanted several shrubs that had been disrupted by the construction work but which are, amazingly, still blooming.

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Warren wants everyone to know that this Sunday after service, he and Steve will give an update on where construction stands and then be available for questions. The project is at the point where there are likely to be many concerns regarding money, what it can buy and who will decide.

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The welder showed up Monday morning, July 13, to fasten the steel support posts for the awning beams to the metal plates in the concrete piers out in front of the new entry way.These photos take you on a quick tour around the front of the building with its new look.Here are some detail shots of the [UPDATED 8/26/09] welders earlier in the morning taken by Sue and the resulting supports. Also, the

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After church, Sunday, July 12, a crew of Warren, Steve M., Bram, Larry, Lee and Paul finished raising the two main beams for the front entry awning. We had rented a hand-cranked lift to get them up in the air. First, Steve and Warren built a wooden support for the outward ends of the beams. The welders wouldn't arrive until Monday to install the permanent metal supports. Then, Warren trimmed the

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On Saturday, July 11, a work crew showed up at the construction site ready to hoist some beams into the air to support the roof/awning over the entry way to the new building. Among the first things accomplished was the moving of one roughly 27-foot long by 15-inch high by 6-inch thick beam from the parking lot to the entry way. With six guys lifting, it was only extremely heavy.Steve M. figured

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... were delivered to the church construction site this afternoon. It all has to be shoveled into wheelbarrows and moved to the landscaping beds around the church. There it must be raked smooth. Larry, Coles and Mary Ann got started on it Monday afternoon. But, says Mary Ann, you really can't tell from looking at the pile. So, if you can shovel nice fluffy topsoil, move it in a wheelbarrow or

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Wednesday, Warren, Coles and Larry plus the concrete finishing crew completed the entry way slabs, the sidewalk around to the kitchen and Pastor Steve's back door and the sidewalk along the parking lot blacktop.Sue captured it all.

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On Tuesday, Warren and crew were halfway through pouring new porches and sidewalks around the building. Forms had been removed from some of the porches and were ready to be removed from about half the sidewalks so new forms could be built for pouring the second half of the concrete.Rebar was in place for building some steps down into the utility basement.Larry and Paul were working on a bit of

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Sue, once again, was on the scene to capture two great action sequences as, first, Warren, Coles, Larry and Paul helped pour the slabs for the entryway, and, second, began work on the sidewalk behind the kitchen and offices.

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Emmanuel is planning another work party at the construction site at 8 a.m. Saturday, July 11. We will be working on the entry way canopy and various other things on site. Any questions, contact Steve Meyers.Please, click on COMMENTS below this item to let us know if and when you'll be able to help. Warren and Steve will be checking to see who to expect and when.

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Strobe lights, alarm boxes and smoke detectors -- all part of the fire prevention system -- were beginning to be installed on Monday. Much of the mess from several weeks of drywall installation was being cleaned up while the final shipment of sheets of drywall, mainly for the kitchen, arrived and taping and mudding continued in the sanctuary.Construction of a French drain to catch runoff from the

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A french drain needs to be dug by hand this week in the old playyard area, since the ground there will slope toward the building, and the water that drains off it needs to moved into the storm drain system. Steve M. is talking about a work party on Saturday, July 11 (two weeks from yesterday) to build the awning at the church entrance. More on that later.By the end of this past week, the terrain

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Sue was as busy documenting yesterday's goings on as Warren, Coles, Larry and Paul, plus the concrete crew and the painter, were lifting, pulling, pushing, dumping and rolling.The photos show the pour direct from the truck for the piers that will support the front awning. Before that the crew used 5-gallon buckets to carry material to build the curb around the fire protection plumbing out near

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Sue had her camera out Thursday at the construction site and shot photos of the forms for the classroom porches, the main entry, a big gravel pile, and work on the third wall of the entry to the utility basement.

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Sue was over at the construction site Wednesday and captured these series of photos of Warren and Coles breaking up the concrete and blacktop entryway in preparation for new concrete under the new outdoor roof. She also caught the beginning of the work to take down the old lamppost.

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At midweek, several of the forms had been built for concrete pours later in the week, including a curb around the new fire protection plumbing out front and porches for several doors. Larry and Paul and other helpers were replanting shrubs around the foundation of the Matthews Education Wing. Inside, the tail end of the drywall crew was slowly but steadily taping seams, applying mud, sanding and

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Warren announced in church on Sunday that he expects construction to be complete in about six weeks. On Monday, he was recounting the dozens of things he needs to order and install between now and then -- light fixtures, plumbing fixtures, tile, laminate for walls, vinyl flooring, carpeting, interior doors, woodwork and on and on. And that doesn't include some furnishings, cabinetry, shelving and

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Most noticeable from the street is the growth of the lawn. It is really greening up well under the ministrations of Larry and his crew and some warm damp weather. On Saturday, a crew was just finishing building forms for a concrete curb around all that new fire protection equipment near the street. Warren says the crew will be building forms for lots of sidewalks around the building in the coming

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There are four to five dozen rose plants in the Emmanuel rose garden. Here are photos of those in bud or bloom on Saturday.

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I stopped by the church construction late Saturday to find that the new planting bed near the entry to the parking lot had been finished. Timing is everything!It was quiet on the grounds, but there were signs of progress all over the place as I've documented in the photos below. Outside doors were framed and painted. And inside work was moving along on the drywall.

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Erik is organizing a second landscaping work party to get the remaining trees and shrubs we've purchased into the ground out just south of the entrance to the parking lot. Some of the smaller plants, in particular, are beginning to look quite stressed. On Saturday, we'll need folks with shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows and the like. They will create a planting mound, move the plants behind the church

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Sue stopped by the building project on Sunday afternoon and grabbed a shot of the back of the fellowship area, which now has drywall covering that pink and yellow insulation. Down the hall, the walls have been sealed covering the "mud" that covered the joints. She also took several photos of the condition of the sanctuary at this point.

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Just a couple of quick shots of the ever-lengthening lawn. Tom and Linda Avery were just finishing up the Saturday evening shift of watering chores.

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By Thursday evening, painting of the new building's exterior had been completed, except for some final touches on the doors, especially the one in front. The slide show walks you around the building. Note that at least one window in the clerestory opens, and that Larry, Bram and Dick have planted azaleas on the east side of the sanctuary wing.There are a couple of photos to prove that the grass

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Sue was busy with her camera on Wednesday, catching several exterior shots with the newly painted siding, the recently planted lawn and a rhody in full bloom.Inside, work continued to install drywall on the front wall and to tape up interior windows before the walls get painted with a sealer coat. In the men's restroom, there's another fine mess of vent pipes.

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Painting has begun on the outside of the new building. Three different colors are being used, starting on the bottom with sort of a soft charcoal gray, moving up to a much lighter gray/green on the upper walls and with a creamy tone on the clerestory and the "bay" windows and front facade.Also, the watering program on the new lawn is well under way. Larry and a huge crew of helpers -- 14 at last

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Pastor Steve sent out this email to the congregation this morning. Keep those hoses and sprinklers coming, please. And we're looking for an hour of your time each week watching grass grow -- and a little more.Dear Members & Friends of Emmanuel: As Warren Weber announced – the mountain has been moved! But it has been spread over our grounds to level our lawn area and hydro-seeded. Now we are

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On Memorial Day, there were three crews working at the construction site. Outside, a team was starting to caulk all the places where the siding met windows or walls or roof or pipes. One worker appeared to be cutting pipes to length for installation the next day.And a large crew was finishing up installation of drywall in the classroom wing.You might want to take a look the blog entries Drywall,

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Putting up drywall sure changes the look of a place. No more raw wood and see-through walls, but large expanses of white. Note that there is siding on the long walls of the clerestory.The drywall crew was about half done with installing insulation and drywall in the Matthews classroom wing when a small contingent visited after Sunday services.A lone laborer with a rake was getting the larger

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On the Monday after the great planting of ought 9, I remembered to get a picture of the southern planting bed that I had skipped on Saturday. This was the first bed planted on Saturday morning.At the same time, Warren was out driving in circles in the newly spread dirt to smooth it out with a heavy wire drag.Most of the newly planted trees were staked along the north edge of the property.Larry

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Crew members started arriving just before 8 a.m. Saturday for a day long work party that Erik and Warren had organized. Erik had specified and ordered the plants, which the city had to approve. Warren had 40 yards of topsoil hauled in. Erik had outlined two planting beds -- both on 104th Avenue Northeast -- one by the sidewalk just south of the big church sign and one at the north corner of the

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The trees and shrubs have been delivered. There are more than 18 cubic yards of nice topsoil waiting to be spread in planting areas. Two planting beds and several spots for treees have been designated. We start work at 8 a.m., but come anytime. It will be a beautiful day to do yardwork. It is unlikely we will run out of things to do before it is time to go to the Adult Fellowship Potluck at Lee

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As the work week drew to a close, crews were busy preparing to put siding high up on the center structure, installing lighting fixtures, running still more pipes for the fire sprinkler system and moving dirt. There were probably a few other things going on, too.Warren, with some help from his brother, has moved the two big mounds of dirt. The larger was created when the new foundation was dug.

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Warren just started yesterday to fill in the low spots in the front lawn with dirt from Mound Emmanuel. He also pulled out the remaining stump and roots from the old weeping willow that used to grow near the cross. The williow was diseased and fell over in a winter windstorm. Paul and Sue were working on the fence around the school mobile unit. The children weren't exactly trying to escape, but

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Sue was busy taking pictures yesterday. She caught Vitaly and the crew putting up siding, Larry reinstalling downspouts, the tangle of electrical conduits terminating in the pantry, and the HVAC sheet metal in the school office storage room.

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Well, once again the crew observed a casual Friday dress code as they installed siding around the south end of the building. Electrical, heating and ventilation work continued apace inside and underneath the building. After the others had washed up for the week, Warren was up on the roof. And Dick was going around in circles out in the yard.WORK PARTY ALERT: This is a reminder that Saturday, May

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The new siding went up all along the front of the building on Thursday. Sure, there are a few spots, most noticeably the front of the clerestory, where it hasn't been installed yet, but it is there for the most part.Exhaust fans have been installed in the restrooms. There are red caps on the fire sprinklers to protect them during construction. Red plastic electrical boxes have sprung out all over

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Paul and Larry spent much of the early part of the week stripping the old siding off the sanctuary building. A lot of that time they were laboring in the rain. Sue caught them here about 10 a.m. Wednesday as they began work on the third section of the south wall behind the rose garden. You can see the rain soaking them.Larry handled the ladder and the crowbar, while Paul kept tension on the long

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Larry and Sue teamed up for a look at what's been going on underneath the floor. With Sue's camera, Larry scooted himself along the floor in the crawlspace under the sanctuary, which may provide better working conditions than rolling around in raw dirt but the ceiling really is a bit low for my taste. When Larry was done under there, he and Sue went over to the utility basement. This is a little

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The application of the siding turned the corner from the back of the building on May 1 and started moving down the facade. Today's photos show that. Also, there's a photo of an odd pipe sticking out of the north wall between the doors for the pre-school classrooms. Warren tells me it is the pressure relief valve outlet for the secondary water heater installed under the Matthews wing. Without this

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There is a lot of work going on at the construction site now with workers everywhere you look. So much is going on, this post will have three slideshows with it. The first focuses on getting gutters and downspouts installed all the way around the building. This should help to dry out the building further. Getting the roof on helped, but rain has been running off the roof and back under the

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The youth group and a friend or two joined Warren and Connie in the old sanctuary on Sunday night to bring down the old back wall. I've yet to see photos of the process, but have several below, which were taken late Monday afternoon, of the excellent results. I'm told that several young men and women of the church really gave it their all.The electricians installed the exterior switchbox outside

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One big new thing got started and a lot of little things moved along during this past week.The big thing is that the siding has started to go up. The framing crew started in back and will work around to the front, first covering up the bare plywood sheathing, then moving on to replace the siding that is now on the sanctuary building. After it is installed, it will be painted. Some painting was

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As both Warren and Steve warned us, the honeymoon is nearly over. The progress from now on will be in the details. Much won't be visible from the outside or even inside unless you look closely. The ramp to the classroom building from the main fellowship area nearly is finished. The steps have been completed. No more big ditch: it is all filled in now, although to find and fix the intermittent

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Once the six-inch main was placed in the trench, it was covered and smaller lines for general water use were placed on top, along with conduits containing the various wires needed to control and protect the valves and meters in and near the street. Meanwhile, toward the end of the week, the electrician began installing electrical conduits and switch and outlet boxes in the new building. The

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Suddenly, Tuesday, the church grounds looked like they had suffered an attack of a giant mole. Golddiggers created the trench from 104th Avenue Northeast to the front of the building and then around to the north side. It will hold the water pipes and the electrical conduits necessary to keep them operating properly. First down were the six-inch cast-iron pipes for the sprinkler system. Well,

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On Saturday, April 4, several congregation members helped clean up the relatively finished portions of the classroom wing, the offices, kitchen, restrooms and nursery. Executive Presbyter Corey Scholosser-Hall of North Puget Sound Presbytery was coming on Sunday to inspect the progress. Those sections are nearly finished in terms of the basic framing. It turns out that he also brought the good

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Lots of activity at the construction site on Monday: Golddiggers were installing the anti-siphon valve in the concrete vault dug into the grass between the administration module and the sidewalk.Steve's crew was getting ready for the final framing-in of the new roof connecting the sanctuary to the clerestory in the front of the building. The plumbers were working in the main restrooms. The

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By Saturday, Warren had nearly all the shingles on the back half of the new roof connecting the old sanctuary building to the clerestory. He and Vitaly were getting ready to put sheathing, tar paper and shingles on the front half. Check the photos at the bottom of this long post.Under the roof in the new narthex, the framing around the old front door to the sanctuary building is no longer helping

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Late last week and early this week two major projects were visibly under way. So was a third but it was mainly in the crawl spaces, so we don't have any photos.First, we were out in 104th Avenue Northeast Monday and Tuesday digging a hole for big valves that will control the water supply for our sprinkler system and separately for our faucets and toilets. Sue got a lot of these photos. Oh, in

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Although a lot had been happening -- or was about to happen, it was quiet Saturday, March 21, at the constuction site. Here are some exterior views of the building and one lone gardener.

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On Friday, Warren spent much of the day papering and shingling the south side of the clerestory roof. The following slideshow focuses on that, and moves along quickly. The last few photos from Sue, you'll notice, were taken about two hours later than the main sequence. Warren has worked his way to the peak of the roof.Meanwhile, down on the ground Vitaly was working on two big new windows in the

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Lots of windows, actually. Warren says that nearly all the windows in the classroom wing, plus the windows in the offices, were installed Tuesday. Here are Sue's photos.The plywood roof sheathing went on the clerestory Wednesday. That means Warren can start putting the tar paper and shingles on that high roof. He's excited. More of Sue's photos:Speaking of the clerestory, the big windows in the

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The windows had been delivered on Monday, and installation began. Both these photos are from Sue.From DeliveredWork on some of the roof was delayed by the snow.From Delivered

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Several hardy souls converged on the construction site Saturday morning -- some of us a little later than the others -- to speed up demolition of the north wall of the sanctuary building. It is no longer supporting much of anything. The wall, however, had no intention of going easily. Despite persistent attacks with crowbars and pry bars and hammers and saber saws and sledge hammers, some of it

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Sue was busy taking photos at the construction site from 9:30 to 10:30 or so Wednesday morning, March 4. The crew was lifting the trusses for the clerestory into place. Deb and Paul were there to help supervise.The initial sequence in the slideshow below shows the first set of trusses being lifted from the ground and set into place on the clerestory walls. Once the trusses are in place, the

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