The Beacon May 2012

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Christy Reynolds

The Miller Family–Pastor Terry, Tammy, Brian, Devan, & Brannon–have moved up to Rhode Island to minister with us. Pastor Terry will serve as our associate pastor, and Tammy will serve in various ministries including music, discipleship, and teaching. Together they will work with our teens. Their sons Brannon & Devan will help with music and audio, as well. They will be a tremendous blessing to this ministry!! (Brian and Jonathan are headed to work at Trinity Camp in AL for the summer and then to Southeastern FWB College this fall.)

At our church outing to Wilson Park, we played volleyball, flag football, whiffle ball, and other games as the little kids played at the playground. Some of the folks just enjoyed sitting and talking togher. A picnic lunch of charcoal-girlled hot dogs, pasta salad, chips, cookies, and salad & fruit made the day perfect!

 

Tommy & Sue Goodfellow from Gateway FWB Church are here to help again! We are VERY thankful! What a blessing!

 

Stone work is almost complete. Tile is all laid, awaiting the return of Gary Wilson from Lynchburg, VA for grout and carpet completion. Ceiling tiles are hung and trim is getting put up. We are so thankful for your continued prayers for safety for our volunteers and professional workers and for warm, dry weather!

 

Special Thanks To Gary Wilson for coming to help with flooring!

 

Praise God for His faithfulness to provide for every need! Prayer Requests:

Excavation

Plumbing

Electrical Work

Finish carpentry

Flooring

Paving

Church Furniture

Fence & playground

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Church Outing to Wilson Park

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Christy Reynolds

We had a great time after church on Sunday, May 6, 2012!  Grilled hot dogs, chips, macaroni & regular salad with yummy cookies and krispy treats was our picnic lunch.  Then we played volleyball, whiffle ball, and flag football.  Although the afternoon began overcast & chilly, the sun came out and we all warmed up after a while.  What a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon!

 
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May Progress

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Christy Reynolds

God is so good!  So much is being accomplished.  Every day it seems He is providing in ways we couldn’t have imagined!  Please pray for the following to be accomplished this month:

  1. Stonework finished.
  2. Flooring finished.
  3. Trim work finished.
  4. Electrical work finished.
  5. Kitchen installed.
  6. Bathrooms installed.
  7. Heating, AC, and Sound System installed.
  8. Excavation finished.
  9. Parking Lot and lights installed.
  10. Landscaping done.

Thank you so much for continued prayers!!!  Please continue to pray for good weather and safety for all the workers!

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5/1/12 Vestibule tile so far. Color: Sahara Beige from Surface Solutions
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5/1/12 Lowe's delivery--more tile and grout
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5/1/12 Gary, Brian, & Hannah laying tile in the fellowship hall

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5/1/12 laying tile--not pictured, Brannon also helped!
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5/1/12 Luke cutting ceiling tiles; Peter & Anna installing them
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5/1/12 Lunch time! Mary Miller brought sausage & pepper grinders with her famous marinara!!!! What a treat!

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5/4/12 Tabetha brought chili for lunch--yum!
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5/4/12 Meeting of the minds--Tommy Goodfellow and Gary Wilson
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5/4/12 Lunch break. Whew!

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5/4/12 The tile in the fellowship hall--being "fellowshipped" on already.
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5/4/12 View from road
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5/4/12 view from road--the last of the stonework to be done is seen here.

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5/2/12 Christy, Tabetha, & Michaela laying stone
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5/2/12 Hannah & Brannon laying tile, Gary ordering more. :)

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5/5/12 look at that beautiful floor!
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5/2/12 Christy, Matt, Tabetha, Michaela
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5/2/12 Brannon & Hannah at work

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5/3/12 Fellowship hall getting tiled
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5/4/12 Luke tiling

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5/4/12 Carpet in auditorium, window frames from fellowship hall
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5/4/12 carpeting and workstations . . .
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5/4/12 Travis & Pastor Bill talking about electricity

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5/4/12 Hannah tiling the ladies' restroom
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5/4/12 Brian tiling the fellowship hall
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5/4/12 Brannon tiling the men's room

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5/4/12 Bob & Tommy hanging the storage room doors
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5/4/12 Sue Goodfellow counting tiles for Gary
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5/4/12 Anna, Matt, & Michaela

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5/4/12 Christy & Tammy laying stone
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5/4/12 Anna, Peter, & Michaela at work
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5/5/12 Tammy, Matt, & Michaela

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5/5/12 Jonathan Miller home from Southeastern Free Will Baptist College helping clean up
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5/5/12 Matt, Tammy, Christy, & Michaela
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5/5/12 Brannon & Pastor Terry at work

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5/5/12 The Millers on lunch break: Brannon, Jonathan, Devan, Pastor Terry, & Tammy
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5/5/12 Fellowship hall tile
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5/5/12 Gary on his way to the nursery bathroom

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5/5/12 Women's restroom
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5/5/12 Gary starting on the nursery restroom
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5/5/12 hallway tile

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5/5/12 Pastor Terry painting the door frame
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5/5/12 Frank & Hannah cleaning up
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5/5/12 Pastor Terry painting the door frame of a SS room

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5/5/12 SS room carpeting
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5/5/12 Hannah cleaning up the SS Wing hallway
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5/5/12 Luke cutting tiles

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5/5/12 Pastor Bill sanding the stairs for the carpeting
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5/2/12 Fellowship hall in progress
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5/2/12 Fellowship hall tile

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5/2/12 Brannon Miller cutting tiles
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5/2/12 stonework
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5/2/12 Stonework

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5/5/12 Men's Prayer Breakfast before the work day
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5/7/12 Reynolds family picture
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5/7/12 Gutters being installed

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5/7/12 Gutters
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5/7/12 Gutters being installed
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5/7/12 Michaela & Matt sifting the sand for mortar

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5/7/12 Lunch break!
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5/7/12 Carrie soaking up some sun during lunchtime.
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5/7/12 Gary & Carrie chatting

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5/7/12 Matt, Carrie, Tammy, Michaela, Hannah, & Christy trying to finish that wall
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5/7/12 Filling in the gap
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5/7/12 Filling in another gap

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5/7/12 The exposed wall spots are getting smaller!
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5/7/12 Jonathan & Brannon laying tile in the SS wing
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5/7/12 Pastor Terry and Brian painting window frames for the fellowship hall

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5/7/12 Tommy Goodfellow laying tile in the Sunday School wing
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5/7/12 Bro. Tommy cutting the tile
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5/7/12 View of church from front

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5/8/12 Jonathan Miller putting the last tile in, or so he thought!
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5/8/12 Lenny, the electrician, putting up one of the chandeliers.

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5/8/11 Installed chandelier.
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5/8/12 Gary Wilson preparing the floor for the last tile
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5/8/12 Tommy Goodfellow taking over preparing the floor for the last tile.

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5/8/12 Gary and Tommy putting the last tiles in.
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5/8/12 National Grid guys installing the electric pole. Yay!
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5/8/12 closing in the gaps!
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5/9/12 Preparing for the sidewalks
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5/8/12 Sidewalk prep

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5/11/12 Sidewalks!
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5/11/12 Sidewalks
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5/10 & 11/12 Closing the gap!

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5/11/12 Will we ever be glad when this wall is done! :)
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April Ham Fellowship

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Christy Reynolds

After our worship service, we enjoyed a delicious ham dinner, and chicken, too.  Yummy sides like homemade baked beans and green bean cassarole, anitpasta salad and gourmet cupcakes, an Allie’s doughnut cake, and much more.  We really love food, but we especially love to sit together and fellowship.  This is also our first fellowship with the Miller family.  Pastor Terry Miller has moved up here with his family (wife, Tammy, and sons, Brian, Brannon, & Devan) to join us in ministry as the Associate Pastor.  Praise the Lord!  We are so thankful to welcome them!  They will work with the teens, assist in discipleship and other ministries, teach Sunday School, and serve as musicians (pictured are their boys in our newly formed “bluegrass band” playing the offertory with Frank Garzilli on Mandolin and Billy Reynolds on guitar.  Brannon plays bass guitar and Brian plays banjo.)

 
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Youth Fishing 2012

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Christy Reynolds

The guys took all the kids fishing, and this year they caught 5 fish!  Yay!  Afterwards, some of them stayed at the pastor’s house for a game of flag football.

 
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Mid-April Progress

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Christy Reynolds

Thank you for your continued prayers for the following to be accomplished this month:

  1. Stone work complete
  2. All the doors hung (they are almost done!)
  3. All the paint done (all but the trim is DONE!)
  4. All the trim work put on and painted
  5. Drop ceiling hung (it’s hung–just needs the tiles in after the vents are installed)
  6. Floors installed

And please continue to pray for warmer days (God is answering that prayer, as well!  Today was 80 degrees and BEAUTIFUL) and safety for all the volunteers and hired help.

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4/16/12 Pastor Bill and Bro. Terry spraying the frames for the doors.
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4/16/12 Gordon Johnston and Tommy Goodfellow installing the men's restroom door to the vestibule.
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4/16/12 Electricians installing lights!!! Yay!

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4/16/12 Electricians installing lights
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4/16/12 Norman Hargraves putting up a stone
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4/16/12 Shirley Hargraves installing a stone

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4/16/12 "We put these up!"
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4/16/12 Martin Glasser installing a Sunday School door
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4/16/12 Martin checking the door

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4/16/12 Michaela working at her spot. Christy's spot was under the window and then to the right.
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4/16/12 Abe Glasser & Chris Kairnes looking over Abe's work.
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4/16/12 Chris & Gordon almost have that wall done!!!

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4/18/12 Carrie Vallee, Christy Reynolds, & Paula Kairnes laying stones.
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4/17/12 return vent in Sunday School hallway
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4/17/12 the box for the return vent

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4/17/12 Abe Glasser and Michaela Reynolds working on the wall
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4/17/12 Martin Glasser, Chris Kairnes, Ray Warner, & Matt Gedeon on the job
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4/17/12 Pastor Bill putting up trim on the auditorium baptistry door

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4/17/12 Auditorium doors from vestibule
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4/17/12 Tommy Goodfellow and Gordon Johnston hanging a fellowship hall door!
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4/18/12 Paula putting up stones

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4/18/12 Carrie & Jake Vallee at work
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4/18/12 Jake Vallee helping Pastor Bill with cleanup, and Phil the Heat/AC guy
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4/18/12 Pastor Bill putting up trim on the auditorium right emergency exit

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4/18/12 Jake Vallee putting up a stone
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4/18/12 Good job, Jake!
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4/18/12 Ray Warner showing Jake how to sift the sand for the mortar.

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4/18/12 Get the rocks out of that sand! :)
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4/18/12 Michaela on the job
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4/18/12 Vents

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4/18/12 Electricians installing lights in fellowship hall
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4/18/12 Nora Crain laying a stone
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4/18/12 Billy Crain putting up a stone

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4/18/12 CJ Crain putting up a stone.
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4/18/12 Mason Kairnes picking out just the right rock
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4/18/12 Mason and Michaela at work

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4/18/12 Chris Kairnes putting up the last stone of that wall!!!!! YAY!
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4/18/12 Tommy Goodfellow leading our Wednesday night Bible study
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4/17/12 Sue Goodfellow taking pictures at the church

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4/18/12 Vents
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4/18/12 Electricians working in the fellowship hall
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4/17/12 Gordon Johnston & Tommy Goodfellow hanging a door

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4/17/12 Getting it right
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4/24 Hannah & Christy Reynolds, Chris Kairnes working on the wall
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4/24/12 Michaela Reynolds, Hannah, Christy, & Chris

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4/24/12 Brian Miller putting up ceiling tiles in the fellowship hall
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4/25/12 Christy getting the mortar mixer ready for Michaela to make a batch
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4/25/12 Christy, Brannon Miller, Matt Gedeon, Brian Miller, and Chris Kairnes working on the stone wall

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4/25/12 Getting the stones up
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4/26/12 Brian Miller stapling the carpet down in the auditorium
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4/26/12 Brannon, Matt, & Chris FINISHING that wall!!!!!!!!! (yes, I'm excited about that!!!)

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4/26/12 Gary Wilson from Lynchburg, VA laying the carpet with Brian Miller
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4/26/12 Gary & Brian getting it down
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4/26/12 Color: Jungle Green. A little dark green, a little dark blue, and a tiny bit of the same color as the wall.

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4/26/12 Gary & Brian in the back of the auditorium
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4/21/12 Michaela, Christy, Hannah, & Frank laying stone on the Sunday School wing side (roadside). Chris around the corner on the scaffolding.
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4/21/12 Sarah Reynolds putting a stone on

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4/21/12 Mom giving it a little more oomph
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4/21/12 Nice work, Frank!
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4/21/12 recessed lighting installed

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4/28/12 Matt, Christy, & Michaela working on the wall.
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4/28/12 Finishing the wall!
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4/28/12 Working on the Sunday School wing front

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4/28/12 Christy & Matt working where Brannon, Michaela, & Hannah left off yesterday
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4/28/12 Michaela setting her stone just right
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4/28/12 Gary laying the starter row of tile.

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4/28/12 Brian Miller laying tile
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4/28/12 Frank, Luke, & Hannah cleaned up for the tile laying
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4/28/12 Christy, Tammy Miller & Devan Miller laying stone

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4/28/12 Christy, Tammy, Devan, Matt, & Michaela working on the front Sunday School wing
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4/28/12 Brian, Gary, & Hannah laying tile
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4/28/12 Gary showing Hannah how to space the tiles

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4/28/12 Brian pressing down the tiles
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4/28/12 Luke cutting ceiling tiles
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4/28/12 Luke working on ceiling tiles

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4/28/12 Tammy & Christy the "Speed Queens"
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4/30/12 Anna Gedeon hanging ceiling tiles
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4/30/12 Luke Gedeon cutting ceiling tiles

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4/30/12 Chris Kairnes finishing the corner
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4/30/12 Peter Gedeon sifting sand for the mortar
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4/30/12 Lenny and Mark hanging the outdoor fire alarm roadside alert

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4/30/12 Matt & Michaela hanging stone
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4/30/12 Anna & Brannon hanging stone
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