RAs Meet at New Church

Wednesday night the RA boys met out at the new Church for an archery exhibition presented by Keith Mack.
He is showing the boys a long bow here but he used a compound bow for the demonstrations.We learned some archery terms during the presentation. If you'll notice, one of the shots missed the mark a little high. He did that on purpose. The term used for missing the mark is "sin".
Look close at this picture and you'll notice that he just put an arrow through the middle of a ping pong ball.
Josh helped with this demonstration. They put a balloon between two bags of sand. He shot it with a 30-30 and the bullet didn't pop the balloon. They then added 2 more sand bags to the frount and shot an arrow at the balloon. The arrow went through 3 bags and popped the balloon.
Last he shot an apple off Nathans head! Just kidding. He replaced Nathan with a foam head before he shot.
Good thing he did too. The arrow is going right through the eye of the dummy. Of course he did that on purpose to make a point.
Nathan was glad he got replaced. There was a lot of good shooting and some good spiritual application to what he had done. Hopefully the kids learned a lot.

Tues, May 27

All of the walls are up surrounding the upper deck.
The men were working on installing the horizontal bracing between the studs. If you can see the men in the picture above it will give you some perspective on how tall those end walls are.
A lot of the sheet rock is up in the classroom areas. This is the adult classroom hallway.

Upstairs Framing- May 15

After a discussion about who was going to get up on that scaffolding 30 feet off the upper deck (plus the distance to the concrete below that), it was decided that we should hire a crew to do that job. Good decision! As of last week they had most of one end up. Those are some tall walls!

Sat, May 10

I know it's been awhile since the last update. We've been busy with baseball and getting a senior ready for graduation. So here is what's going on.The sprinkler system pipes are up. The nozzles will be installed once the suspended ceilings are up.
There are a lot of pipes running through out the building.
The a/c ductwork is also going up. The crew still has some more work to do before that project is finished.
More of the a/c equipment sitting in the youth room.
We had some sound deadening material donated so Jason has had his men installing what they got.
The ceiling has been painted black so it will disappear above the suspended lights. The first pictures I took of the ceiling were just black. This one has some of the end wall in it so you can see the contrast.