We have to be out of the old church building by Tuesday, so today was designated as moving day for everything besides tables, chairs, songbooks, and anything else essential for services and Bible classes. Tomorrow morning will be our last time to meet for services in the old building, and then in the afternoon everyone with cars will help take the remaining items over to the new building.
It's been very exciting over the past month to see all of this come together. The members of the congregation and even many "friends and visitors" have put many hours into getting the old building packed up and the new building ready to move into. A large number of us met this morning to do last minute projects and cleaning before the furniture was brought in. I was gladly surprised to see a couple people who come only to special Bible studies or activities and not to services stop by to check on the progress and to encourage us. One woman even brought us coffee.
Here are some pictures of the work being done at the new building over the past few weeks. (Note: Some of the pictures look fuzzy and have specks because of the dust in the air when the picture was taken. With walls coming down and old wallpaper being removed, there is a seemingly never-ending supply of dust and dirt filling the building.)
The new building. The first floor used to be a bar, and the two upper floors were apartments. The blue garages also belong to us, but we are continuing to rent them out like the previous owner had done.
Ingrid painting one of the classrooms.
Jana removing wallpaper from above the window.
A wallpaper-removing party with Stefan working on the floor tiles.
Stefan and Rüdi chiseling away the stubborn floor tiles.
Rüdi and Aaron removing the old linoleum from the stairs.
Jim trying to remove the old sink in one of the bathrooms.
Sergej hanging wallpaper in the kitchen.
The garbage we accumulated after the first large group workday.
The new kitchen doorway created by Ralf and Rüdi last weekend.Stefanie happened to walk by as I took the picture.
This is the area that used to be the bar. Last weekend there were still walls standing between those supports. This new large room will be the assembly room for church worship services.
Another view of the new assembly room. The window on the right used to be in the kitchen at the back of the bar area.
Mark and Elsa recycled shelves from the old church building to createthese new ones that fit the slope of the roof.
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Great pics! I'll put something in the bulletin and on Summit's web site. What part of the work in the building did you work on?
Love ya!
I helped remove wallpaper in the large worship assembly room, in one of the hallways, in the kitchen with the new doorway, and in the room with the shelves Mark and Elsa made. You wouldn't believe how long it takes to remove several layers of German wallpaper. Then I helped paint the room with the shelves and another one. I've also done cleaning throughout the building.
By the way, after Jana left I finished scraping the wallpaper from the underside of the top of that window. I was the only one short enough to be able to stand in the window itself to reach it. Sometimes it pays to not be so tall. :)
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