The Buildings Arrive!

What a day this was. The first ever "concretables" in Palm Bay Florida arrived by truck to the church thursday morning just before noon. The night before a crane that looked like it could go up about ten stories arrived. Click the image to have a look at this monster.






Pastor Gary told us that they were going to let him run the crane. We told him, "Cool! But remember to put the quarters in the left slot and not the right slot".

Pretty soon, the first truck arrived with the first part of the one of the buildings. There would be six pieces of the main buildings, and at least three others that you'll see in a later picture.





The paper covered the inside of the building so the inside was protected from anything during transit. The most interesting part of the operation was the harness that they brought with them to control the lift of building. It consisted of three girders connected together by cable. A better picture is below. The kids from the school sat outside the main sanctuary and watched. They got a kick out of it.




Then, came time to lift the building up!



This was an amazing sight. All this work would only take them about four hours to do. Truely amazing.



Now, here a funny thing happened. The actually picked up the wrong peace here and set it down so that it was wrong end first. Look at the three pics below.



It's supposed to be rounded at the top, not trapezoid! Doh!



But they got it fixed in the end. Now all we gotta do it... Get the electric hooked up, get the fire alarm installed, water(?), landscaping, supplies, studentededed... or rather, get the students in the new buildings and we're done! Praise God!