First Night for the Edge

Here is a picture of middle school youth group last night...awesome night!!

We Made It!!

We did it...of course, with God leading the way! On Saturday, we got the building ready to hold our first weekend of services. And it was awesome! There was an excitement and a joy to be in our new space. Here are a few highlights....

• The expression on the elementary children's faces as they entered into their new space
• The service of volunteers throughout the new space...serving coffee, teaching children, leading worship, welcoming people at the doors
• 151 people in our first service....1634 people worshipping for the weekend
• Throughout the weekend, it was just seemless....smooth services as if was a typical Sunday
• HS youth walking into their own space on Sunday night....not having to borrow space anymore  

Thank you, God, for providing this tool to Jacob's Well and to the Chippewa Valley. We are humbled by the thousand people giving thousands of hours in this project. You're presence has been evident from the first day of this project through this weekend. We can't wait to see how you will use this new space.

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!

Article in the Newspaper

We have been so blessed by the media coverage. They are really supporting us by sharing our story in this community. Staff writer, Christena O'Brien from Eau Claire's, Leader-Telegram, ran an article about the project and interviewed one of last week's leaders Ed Wills from Mt. Brook Baptist of Birmingham, AL. Awesome!!

Click on link. Leader Telegram Article - June 19th

Praise God!

Last night's service was amazing. the trusses should be up by the end of the day. AMAZING progress. Go God.

First Truss

6:30am trusses fly.

Prayer Request

First trusses are Up. Praise God. Pray for safety and low winds.

Prayer Requests

Less wind. Safety as we put up walls and trusses.
Less rain.

Praise God for all the rain that missed us yesterday.

Amazing day.
Crane work tomorrow

Praise God

The weather has missed us. Storms seem to be going north. Keep praying church. The work is going very well. About 30 JW folks working with about 100 folks from BFC. Go God! Display your glory.

Many People working on the slab today. Pray the rain stays away. Pray for great organization and for people to work efficiently. praise God! Pictures coming soon.

THE FIRST WALL IS UP!

We are building walls today. Way to go JW volunteers and BFC advanced team.

BFC has arrived

BFC has arrived. Steam led by Jim and Bill with 4 others showed up at about 4:15. Showed them around and they got busy. Cool thing is about 6 of our people pulled up one by one around 5:00 and dove right in to help them!
We are off and running!

BFC Arrivals

The first BFC people are coming today. Jim Griffen's team due in today. Here we go.

Pray for great weather, saftey in work and travel.

Pray for God to be glorified!!!

Check out the pictures to the right of this post. Concrete! Way to go photo Team!

Way to go to all the logistics team! Things look great!.

Thanks to all the advanced volunteers! We are ready just in time. God has already begun to answer our prayers. Go God!!!

We are ready for BFC!

We are ready for BFC!

PRAISE!!

Due to unexpected giving to the Decades Project this past week, we are now at only $180,000 left to reach our financial goal by August! That's less than 10%!! This is one of the greatest ways that God has shown up in the hearts and unity of His people. Woohoo!! Please keep praying for the rest of the finances to fall into place.