As Pastor Shinya said at last Sunday’s service, we hope our new building will be used 77/24/365.  The Church has been designed with easy access for our congregation as well as community groups.

The community service room will be accessible from North Fifth street and will feature one-time, disposable numeric codes for easy entry without loaning out keys for each use.  Groups may have access to the community service room only, or Atrium and restrooms as well.

There is a sink and storage cabinet in the community service room and cabinets in the Atrium which can be used for coffee and snacks before and after services.  No foods or beverages will be allowed in the Sanctuary other than water.

Concrete next to the building where bike racks will soon be installed was finished on Friday.   

Work continues on internal finishing, many of which are referred to as “tennant furnished”.  These are projects completed by contractors hired by SJ First and installed after general construction is completed or nearly completed. Pictures of these projects below were taken on Friday.

Audio visual systems in the Sanctuary supplied by Zamar and other locations of the building as well as networking system hardware installed by Ageeva are two examples.

Security and network wiring is being supplied by PSS Electronics.

Kitchen equipment is another SJFIRST-driven project.

Below are a few other pictures taken Friday including our recently-installed Cross, the pre-school hallway, quiet space at the top of the second floor landing and second floor western conference room.

The cement was poured yesterday for the playground.  Finishing work continued into the afternoon. This is the view from the roof. 

Our construction team has been meeting weekly since the beginning of the project.  We are fortunate to have such a dedicated team, and one that has kept the project moving despite hurdles along the way.

From the left, Marc Morgan, SBC project manager; Larry Smedley, SBC site manager; Paul Hocket, CEO of Vitae Archtitecture, Cindy Mandly, SJFIRST Director of operations, Dan Shore, owners prepresentative, Anthony Cirinelli, SBC project engineer

Here are pictures of Sanctuary with AVL light bar installed and first of two speakers mounted.

In an un-related picture, the cabinets for the second floor break area are now in place.

The forms are being laid for the playground.  Here are initial pictures.

With the completion of the large Cross the two smaller crosses were also installed and are now lighted.  The larger cross will be lit once we obtain our Temporary Certificate of Occupancy (TCO).

The glass railings are now installed on the second floor balcony overlooking the atrium. 

The crane arrived at Church to install our Cross on Friday October 18th at 736am  The cross was placed on the top of the Church tower 8:46am.

The pictures below show the sequence of events that took place on Friday.

The first picture below was taken this morning, the second one around noon.This last picture was taken October 22nd.  The new cross is framed by city hall and the construction camera on the 11th floor.

On Wednesday the Eurobau team delivered the first sample of the Art Glass that will be used in five sanctuary windows, three transom windows above the Santa Clara entrance, also referred to as “the quiet space”, the cross tower, and eventually the front doors.

The sample was a half size panel from the sanctuary.  Here is a picture of it close up and two more from in the sanctuary.  This was half size and only a test sample.

The pictures below depict the approved windows as they will appear in the quiet space transom above the Santa Clara door, sanctuary and tower.