Church Construction Update

Mel and I went over to see how the church building is coming along this afternoon. A few minutes after we got there, Vitaly and Leonid showed up. We went inside and had a look around. Here are a few photos:

View from down the side street. The roof is almost finished! Yea!
Back of church and 'yard'. Front of church. The steps still need to be built, but that will probably happen after the security fence is finished to help prevent
break-ins. Very exciting photos of (1) future utility room (2)kitchen (3)toilet room - one stall for men and one for women, so we were told today (4)Ceiling of sanctuary on main floor. The white lines are electric wire that I think will provide power for the lights. If that is the case, then there may be rows of lights which are not very far apart? Hmmmm. Notice the wooden poles holding the ceiling up while the cement dries completely, in the far lower left corner of the photo Vitaly going up the stairs from the basement to the main floor. This photo actually belongs between photo (3) and photo (4), but I didn't want to disrupt the number sequence of these beautiful photos. ;)

Ok, that's all of these I'm going to post right now. I'll do another post with photos from the 3rd floor and whatnot.

We were very excited to see the progress. Vitaly apparently announced to the congregation that we will be in the building in about 4 to 6 weeks. It will NOT be finished by any means, but we should be able to have services there according to him.

It will take teams from the States and time to complete the inside work. Painting, carpet, tile, linoleum, furniture and so forth and so on. The congregation realizes this. We are hoping that the church will grow numerically and that Ukrainians will be able to do a lot of the work themselves. But reality tells us that volunteer teams from the States will be a wonderful help along the way.

Better quality photos are located in my flicker account in the sidebar.