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.

RA Racers

OK, these aren't construction pictures. But I think people would like to see this too.
The county wide RA racer event was held at FBC Maypearl this week. They set the tracks up in the parking lot this year. It would have been a little crowded inside. That's why we're building the new building.




Here are all the trophy winners. The boys had a great time and hopefully learned from the spiritual applications.

Mens Breakfast

The men of the Church met at the new building on Saturday morning to share breakfast and fellowship.I can feel my arteries hardening.

The food was good and prepared by experts.

Someone has to be first in line. That day it was these two.

We sat on the "bleachers" to listen to the presentation.

Mr. Ellis spoke and gave his testimony. A good time was had by everyone. If you're a man you need to be at the next breakfast.

Tuesday, April 8

They hung the OSB in the main room. I believe it will be covered in carpet. Since this is also a gym, they wanted something stronger than sheet rock. One of the "big boys" decided to test the strength one night and ran into the wall. They say he bounced off nicely.
They sheet rock is in place above the a/c units as a fire break. If we hadn't done that we would have had to have sprinklers above the suspended ceiling as well as below. Drywall was cheaper than more sprinkler heads.
The electrical wiring is in and ready for drywall. The phone and data lines are also in place.
The frount staircase up to the walking track is half in. Jason was there when I took these picture and said we are now waiting on the sprinkler company to run their pipes and for the a/c company to run their duct work. After that is done we can hang drywall and put up the suspended ceilings.