Hooking up to the power!

Painter painting...

New storage area...

Before...

After.

New exit lights...

New electrical panels.

Ashlyn and her daddy!

Not bad for my first shot in over a year!!

Watch out Tiger Woods!

Our new little friend along for the ride...

That was a short visit!!

Today our electricians came to work on our electrical panels in the basement and also the fellowship hall!

For almost four months we have been without power in the fellowship hall. The Flood of 2008 drowned the two panels in the basement and consequently power was cut off. Remember when I was about to pull my hair out when the circuit breakers kept turning the power off to our command center? This happened because we had a string of extension cords coming out of the fellowship hall area and plugging in to the new sanctuary wing.

This morning I was excited to see Tracy and Brian get started on restoring power to portions of our unused and unfinished ministry facilities in that part of the buildings. The two panels were replaced in the basement mechanical room and new electric lines were run to the new storage area that is adjacent to our new platform in the fellowship hall. Once again...signs of progress puts a big smile on my face! Tracy told me that he will be finished with this project tomorrow evening. I can't wait to turn on a light switch in this area or plug in a tape player in a newly restored outlet. Sounds a little funny...but when you've been in my shoes it will make you shout to have power available once again!!

Painting in the three soon to be occupied areas (fellowship hall, overflow room, library and new storage space) should be finished up either tomorrow or Saturday. Then my sound guy will be coming to finish his work on the new sound design for our new stage. Then the carpet installers are set to come early next week to lay down the carpet! Wow...this has been an amazing transformation for these ministry areas from what they used to be before the flood! Thank you Lord for the improvements we were able to make!

Since my daughter had a half day of school today I thought I would surprise her with a trip to the golf course for 18 holes. She really enjoys playing with her daddy and we have a great time when we get the chance. This is the first time in over a year that I got out the clubs!! We invited Terry to play with us and we all had an enjoyable afternoon. We even had some great shots...plus lots of duffers too!! What do you expect? It's golf!!

Tomorrow night we are scheduled to go over and help Seventh Street Church of God. We have a good-sized group to bring some encouragement and assistance to their flooded-out church.

Our church was recently featured on K-LOVE, a Christian radio station. You can find the interview and story, "Back After The Flood," at their website: K-LOVE. (You will click on the next page link to Only on K-LOVE...it will be on that next page!)

One more thing: This past Tuesday while I was conducting our staff meeting we had a surprise visit from an A/G missionary who was driving through on his way to Louisville. He felt the Lord told him to stop and encourage me with his visit and also write out a check for our Flood Fund. Now when was the last time you had a missionary do that for you? A sign that God is with us and meeting our needs!

You can join the growing team of individuals and churches who are helping us to get back into our complete regional worship center facilities. Click on the online giving link @ www.columbusfirstassembly.org Thanks in advance for your gift of support!

Going to enjoy the rest of my half day off...hard to take a full day anymore these days!

Love to all.

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