Upcoming Work Nights

Here are the next work nights....

Friday Night 6-9pm
Saturday 8am - 2pm (lunch at noon)

We'd like to finish the classrooms completely this weekend...that means putting on the base now that the carpet is on, cleaning, touch up painting and maybe installing carpet in the elementary theater. It's fun at this stage of the project to see rooms completed!

No need to sign up....just show up.

Thanks to all who came out this week. We completed the carpeting in the hallway!!!

More Carpet Today!!

Carpet in the classrooms is now complete!!! Way to go, Saturday Team!!

Work Days this week

We have two last weeks for work days. We're cleaning the site, putting in carpet, putting on outlet plates and other finishing touches. Here are the times volunteers can come out.

5-9pm Tuesday
5-9pm Wednesday
6-9pm Friday
8-Noon Saturday

Fun Day!

The team of 8 volunteers who showed up today and worked hard. The parking lot is almost completely cleared and ready for blacktop. The garage is now all organized and the building has been cleaned up. Much work was done in the student auditorium and now ready for the contractors and week night volunteers to continue with stage construction, electrical and sound install.

Also, the site is ready for carpet, bathroom fixtures, and cafe area countertops.

Great day on the site!

Work Day - Saturday

I am organizing a work day on Saturday to clean up in the building and our future parking lot. Greg hopes to have the parking lot paved in the next couple of weeks. If you can help, shoot me an email (patrick@jacobswellec.org)...or if you can't commit now...just show up. I'll be on site from 7am-11am on Saturday.

We'll have both regular work crews this week.....tonight and tomorrow night.

The stage and the tiered seating are being built today! It really addes a new dimension to the auditorium!!

Thanks Saturday Crew

Greg was thrilled this morning when he told me about the progress the Sat. morning crew made. Much of the BFC trailer is packed up and lots of building clean up and other projects were accomplished! Thanks to all who came out to help!!

We'll have more work nights and Saturdays as we get closer to getting a date on the calendar of when we'll host our first service.

By the way, did you see the tower this weekend?? It is finished....and it looks great!!

Sat. Morning Work Crew

Hey JW! We are looking for help on the building site tomorrow (Saturday) between 7am-Noon. We would like to get the BFC trailer organized and packed up. What a resource those tools and equipment was to use. We haven’t had a specific construction clean up night in several weeks, so the the building is in need of some clean up. Greg, our construction manager will be around giving direction. Just show up at the site in the morning even if it only for a couple of hours.

While out there, you'll get to see the progress....children's theater lighting, interior doors all over the place, the two connectors are being worked on, and front tower has window frames in them!

Thanks to anyone who can help.

Site News

Time to fill you in on the project....it has been too long.

First, and foremost, we have amazing people at Jacob's Well. We have had three weekly work nights for the past 4-5 weeks. These teams have just taken the orders Greg has provided and worked as hard as they could to get work accomplished. These teams have been crucial in getting sod laid, stages built, acoustical wall treatment designed and installed, light fixtures hung, along with many other project or clean up needs. Thank you to the leaders (Rick, Rick, Roxann) and all those who have served on those teams.

Here are a few updates on the building....

• Retaining wall is complete around the back half of the building. They will continue working on it as they make their way to the front
• Sod has been delivered and laid behind and around the side of the building
• Tower to be finished? We have had some delays but hopefully this week the tower will be complete
• Most of the interior doors are hung (Thanks Gary!!)
• Cafe area ceiling and walls have been painted...looks great!
• Floors have been scrubbed and cleaned in back half of the building in prep for carpet

We'll try to get you some fresh pictures of the progress in the next week or two.

Couple of prayer requests....please pray for the arrival of the carpet and the chairs. Once we know the delivery of both, we will be able to lock down our date for the first service!!

Retaining Wall

We are putting up our retaining wall. The pictures you see here are near the back corner of the new addition. This wall will wrap around the side and front of the building ending at the front tower. Lots of wall. Dan, Jeff, and Paul are working with our landscaper. They are making great progress today!

JW Volunteer Week

Wow, this week has turned into a big Jacob's Well work week. We've had volunteers from Jacob's Well every day and night this week. Over 70 volunteers have been on site. Several weekly work groups have formed in the evenings. If you want to join any of them, they will be working on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday next week. Call the office for details.

Also this week, we've made great progress with our telephone and data cabling. A team from Georgia had put in long, long days installing the cabling. These guys are saving us thousands of dollars with the work they are doing. The will be taking off tonight making the 17 hour journey back to GA. A big thanks to Kyle and his crew.

Lawrence Corley has been on site this week, inspecting the progess and giving us feedback on how we can finish the project in the most cost effective, timely way. Lawrence always provides great insight during his visits. We are grateful for his trip this week.

Last but not least, we had some great news on the giving for the project. Over $43,000 came in this week really narrowing our financial gap. Praise God for how He shows up!

Evening Work Crews

Tonight's Crew: We had our first post-BFC work crew tonight. It went very well. We scraped and swept the floors and put down paper to prep for the painting. We also cleaned up some around the site. Thanks to the volunteers who helped out tonight.

The following dates are the work nights on the schedule. Come anytime from 4-9pm.

Tuesday, Aug. 16 (tomorrow)
Tuesdsay, Aug. 23
Wednesday, Aug. 24

Week F Team

Happy 4th of July!

Welcome to our teams from Texas! Today, we have on site groups from two different churches.

49 people from Parkside Baptist Church from Denison, TX (north of Dallas)
16 people from First Baptist Church from Cedar Hill, TX (south of Dallas)
Over 10 people from Jacob's Well are working alongside the Builders For Christ teams.

Besides working on the building project, the teams brought some of their children, and they are doing VBS activities with them. It's going to be a fun week.

All Star Kitchen Team

This week we've had a bunch of volunteers step up and help in the kitchen. Frank Jury has been our kitchen leader this week. He and the supporting cast have done an outstanding job preparing meal for the construction volunteers. Way to go, Frank and the Kitchen Team!!

Check out the link on the right side of this page for new pictures...Construction Photo Gallery for some up to date building pictures.

Week B - Update

We are grateful to see the weather break today...rather nice out there actually. We are having a great week. 15-20 local volunteers have been on site each day. People are coming to work hard and are determined to accomplish the tasks for the day. We've had 7-8 experienced carpenters or roofers each day leading the way. Here are some of the interesting things I've seen or heard:

• Seeing the guys on the roof sweating off 5 lbs.


• Tara climbing a ladder securing the roof to the building frame with hurrican clips. Go Tara!


• Tina razzing our construction manager, Greg. (Don't worry, Tina, he deserves it)


• Watching people who didn't know each other's names at 7am by 10am working together to put up a wall. Awesome work!

Thanks to the tradesmen who have served on site themselves or had some of their crew on site. Your leadership has been invaluable. We know how precious your time is. And thanks to those who didn't have a lot of construction experience but have made up for it with a heart to serve and eagerness to learn something new. We would not have made the progress we did without your efforts.

Look out behind you

JW Volunteers Working Last night

JW Volunteers Working Last night

JW Volunteers Working Last night

JW Volunteers Working Last night

JW Volunteers Working Last night