We're just starting to fill in the pieces of this ministry.  Check back here regularly for updates, pictures, and progress reports.

If you would like to come down for a week and work on these buildings and help move us forward toward our goal of opening in the Fall of 2008, contact us at our Office email. 

This side of the page has the older pictures showing the first stages of work.  The inside was gutted thanks to the hard work of a crew from Villiage Church of Christ.

This is what it all looked like before their hard work.

April Update

Northlake Church of Christ from Atlanta blessed us with an awesome crew who painted the outside of the building, cleaned up underneath, and even tore down a chimney for us salvaging the brick so we can recycle it.

We've started work on the duplex (double) next door to the church building where we'll have classes some day.  We've got it gutted and have begun pulling up the rotted flooring.  Much of the damage is from the leaking roof that still needs to be dealt with.  However, the picture in the middle is what's left of the bathroom floor after years of ignoring leaks.  Let this be a warning to all who expect their leaking tub and toilet to heal itself!

March Update

March was a busy month.  We reframed the office area, widened the doorways, tore out the ceiling, took out the fence between the church and the future classrooms, cleaned up the yards, towed a car out of the back yard, completely rewired the building, and reroofed it.  "We" being Carrollton members and many wonderful folks who sacrificed their time, and resources to come down and help expand the borders of the Kingdom. 

Below are some pictures reflecting some of these efforts. 

We took off the steeple to replace the deck under it.  But Shane, "I used to be a roofer," Hines from Highland Hills Church of Christ is building us a new one and will bring it down when he gets hungry for another shrimp poo' boy. 

We tried to save the ceiling but finally had to concede and pull it out for the electricians and future HVAC folks. The fact that it rained like the days of Noah after we got the roof stripped off but before we were felted in also contributed to the decision.  You can see all the new wiring and boxes Mark Smith and his crew put in for us.

In late December we were blessed with six men from the Village Church of Christ in Arkansas.  This was the second dumpster the men filled to the brim with debris from the church and the duplex next door.

With the help of a wonderful crew from Tennessee, two years of growth was cut away from between the auditorium and the duplex next door.  And, yes apparently there is a small back yard behind the auditorium as seen below.

This gives a better idea of how much work we got done in one day.  Still lots to do, but folks from Highland Hills Church of Christ in Tullahoma rock! We wore out one weed whacker and a banker...