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Following nearly two months
in plan review and back-check, the plans drawn by Architect E. Jack Christensen and his associates have been approved by the City of San Jose. We rejoice in this milestone albeit a painfully slow process. However when coupled with our own due-diligence in our planning and revising of plans, we realize a project like this just doesn't happen over night. The construction may actually take less time than the planning for it has.
This is a fairly typical process. We mere mortals are just not used to waiting and working through it sometimes. I applaud us all for our patience!
We now focus on the important things that have and continue to occur: The congregation has collaboratively devised a plan from an idea. We have developed with full buy-in by our members the need to have a support method, which is Christ-based in Forward in Faith. We realize that the Forward in Faith campaign is much more than a fund-raising effort and we have been richly blessed by it's action in the congregation. We have circled personnel to carry the plan forward. To this point, through the project and as we move further forward in our Christian unity, we will do so as God has so richly blessed us! Forward in faith!
Looking forward in the building process:
1. We have just completed an environmental assessment for the building.
2. We will be issuing bid packages to four qualified general building contractors in the coming weeks.
3. The bidding contractors will have their bids returned to us by 1/19/16.
4. During the next three weeks, we need to make sure Luther Hall is unloaded of left over furnishings wall and window coverings and other material.
As mentioned earlier in the Forward in Faith newsletter, I will have established a list of things we ourselves are able to remove or lightly demolish from the building. (A debris-dumpster will be ordered as required.)
5 One of the first things the General Contractor will do is to enclose the building and that portion of the property with a chain-link construction fence.
Once the fence is in place, the building will be off limits to all our campus user groups. I encourage us all to remain vigilant in prayer for this project, personnel and the resolve and growth of our congregation in the efforts necessary to proceed.
Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think." (Ephesians 3:20)
Wayne Hokanson
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