June 12, 2007 by Al Hammer.

Today Spirit of Faith was working on improvements to the entryways such as:

Freshening up the paint:

Doing some landscaping:

And then inside:

Putting up blinds in the Sanctuary:

and moving some chandeliers:

They were suppose to re-carpet the lobby areas and the Fellowship Hall today, but ran into a snag on the quantity of carpet needed. So the plan at the moment is to carpet the lobby area and the downstairs hallway this week and do the Fellowship Hall probably next week.

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June 11, 2007 by Al Hammer.

The subcontractor is moving quickly on progress with laying curb and gutters on the Montgomery Road improvements along with those along the realigned New Cut Road up to our entrance.

This part of the work should be finished next week.

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June 11, 2007 by Al Hammer.

I was up at the job site today and the mason had been there and determined the plan of action for starting the masonry walls tomorrow.

With these walls going up and the structural steel within the next week scheduled to start going up, we should begin to seem more definition to the building parameters.

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June 7, 2007 by Al Hammer.

The chairs arrived and were put out partially today to see how things were going to work:

The lower parking lot received a fresh new coating today and will be striped on Friday.

Same with the front upper parking lot:

On Friday they will coat the balance of the upper parking lot and re-stripe every thing.
The “104 Lobby” was carpeted yesterday along with the hallway along the coat racks leading from the “104 Lobby” to the Main Lobby. The Main Lobby and the Fellowship Hall will be re-carpeted on Monday.

This Saturday some of our Tech Team will be meeting with their folks and testing out the Sound and visual systems. Hopefully we will be using the new sound system this Sunday.

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June 7, 2007 by Al Hammer.

I know, I know! Last week I told you that they were not going to take the pews out and bring in chairs. Well that was as of last Friday. Saturday we heard rumor to from Spirit of Faith that may change AGAIN!

Sure enough on Monday we got word that Spirit of Faith had decided to remove all pews and would be bringing in chairs.

Spirit of Faith gave the pews to Sharon Bible Fellowship in Lanham, Maryland.

The moving crew brought in dollies:

They ramped them up into a total of 5 tractor trailer loads:

And the Sanctuary seemed a little open and airy:

Spirit of Faith continued the process of removing the organ speakers and painting:

Also, new light fixtures were put in the Narthex area.

Also today they started the patching process on all of the parking lots:

I also found out today that the chandeliers hanging above the Amen Corner and the Choir Loft will have to come down entirely in order for the projector systems to work properly. We will have to work on proper lighting for the Choir area particularly.

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