30th June 2010

OK - you can breathe again!!!!!!

Yesterday afternoon Bishop Rubin had a meeting with Bill van Dongen (our Churchwarden), regarding other parish business, and passed on all the submission documents and plans which he had signed. We are on our way!

Now we need to get the docs to Angela (the architect) so that she can prepare them for the Muncipality (the plans need to be coloured in).
Over the weekend Mike Jahnig will sign the engineering sections.
And then the whole lots goes into the Municipality for approval.
There are varying stories about how long approval takes, but apparently permission to start the earthworks can be given quickly.
Now we lots of prayer please!

Meanwhile out on the site things are happening fast.
Peter Berkely is doing a great job moving forward with the preliminary stuff - ordering the storage and accomodation containers and supervising the three youngsters who are clearing the grass and scrub from the building site. We have bought a new 'Springkaan' - a three wheeled industrial mower which chows through the undergrowth with amazing speed - and with this and the bush-cutter the site will soon be cleared.
Peter also discovered that heavy-duty paving blocks were being sold off at a local development site at a fraction of their normal cost, so bought 400 sq. metres of them ... it all makes savings!
Rob Wacher is erecting the electric fence and has reached more-or-less the half-way mark.

Financially, we are so humbled as folk drop off cheques and make deposits into our bank account.
How the Lord is blessing us!
Please pray that we keep our eyes on Him and that every cent is spent in the way He wants it spent.

Please keep the Project Team in your prayers - John Cook, Angela Plekker, Peter Berkeley and Keith Duane.