Visit from Friends

May 30, 2007 by Al Hammer.

Today I had the pleasure of giving Pete and Shirley Adams the tour of the construction site. Shirley’s family are long time/charter members of Glen Mar Church. They now live in Florida and were up for a visit.

Today on the site they put up some of the interior door frames getting ready for the mason to come next week when he will begin working on interior masonry walls.

They were also working on the Montgomery Road entryway. This picture shows the additional dirt they are taking from the road work and putting in the stockpile which will eventually be used to backfill the lower level of the below grade walls. The Montgomery Road work should be done and cleared within a couple of weeks from today. Then they will move on back to work on the upper part of the road which will intersect with the current New Cut Road.

Work continues at the current site with finishing the painting of the Lobby. Painting of the Sanctuary began and will probably be ongoing through the end of next week. The sanctuary walls will be the same “Blond” as the lobby with “Navajo White” trim. Although painting in the Sanctuary will not be finished this week, everything will be back in place enough for us to have our regular worship services this Sunday.

As I understand things at the moment, Spirit of Faith will NOT be doing any major renovations to the Chancel area (as we were originally told) other than new carpet and we will be working with them to make the chancel railing more portable. Spirit of Faith will not be using the chancel railing and want the space opened up. Much of the time that works fine with us, as well. But there will be those times when we will need the chancel railing and will want to make it available when needed.

With in the next 2 weeks Spirit of Faith will be laying new carpet in the Sanctuary, removing all the pews and putting in chairs. They will also be installing new video screens and projectors above the Choir area and the Amen corner.

Thanks to everyone for their patience and flexibility last week during the installation of new sidewalks and the painting of the Lobby areas which made for some interesting and challenging traffic flow issues.

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