Cooking for 15 Extras

Candy Miller and the families of Grace prepared three meals a day for the 15 worker that came to help us.

Remodeling the Entry for the Wheel Chair Lift

This entrance had to be completely remodel to accommodate the wheelchair lift that would latter be installed behind the white door in the center. The Stair were reversed and made narrower as well as restroom in the fellowship hall in the basement were modified to give additional room for the lift.

Framing for the Wheel Chair Lift

Casey Kelly is working in fellowship hall as the new entrance is being framed in the background. This basement is a daylight basement which is 3 feet below grade which is just one of the reasons we needed the wheelchair lift

Moving Window for New Platform and Pulpit

At the suggestion of evangelist, Dr. Bobby Brown, who had built a church in a barn in Alsip, IL the auditorium was redesigned with to pulpit on the north side of the building. This has proved to be one of the best decision that we made in remodeling the building. See latter pictures for the result

Dr. and Mrs Bobby Brown

Dr. and Mrs Bobby Brown are missionaries to the Military and supported by Grace. Bro. Miller has hosted the Browns for Revival meeting in the churches he has pastored since 1977.

Fellowship Hall 1999

The Basement of the new building had become a catch all for building material, used furniture, discard nursery supplies, and lots of dust and debris, but over the next five years that would all change, The dry wall on the far wall was at this point nearly 12 years old with no paint and had become yellowish brown with age. One of the jobs that Pastor John Smith, of Piney Grove took on put on the "mud."

Work on Framing New Stairways

Pastor Miller and Don Parks had gotten the Stairway torn out and widen and had began framing before the Men from Piney Grove arrived. The men are seen here on the first day of construction planning the finished project. This would be the new entrance to the fellowship hall.

Framing for Auditorium Looking West

Pastor and Don had the partial walls and framing of Pastor's office done when the Piney Grove men arrived. Here the men are preparing to enclose the opening over the entrance to the Fellowship hall.

Auditorium Looking North East

What Was Left Behind

Auditorium Looking West, The platform is framed and sheeted, the insulation is installed, their is material left over. This was taking the day of the departure of the Men for Piney Grove.

In all they were able to complete the following rough-in projects: The Stairway, The Wheelchair lift shaftway, the platform, moved three(3) windows from behind the pulpit and place in new locations, all the conduit and breaker boxes in the basement to the receptacles in the auditorium and all the plumbing in the restrooms and stubbed a run to the kitchen.

In Just Four and half days.

and supplied the material as well!

Fellowship Hall

Much still needed to be done!