Building Update
Our New Offices
January 30, 2008
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It has been 3 months since the fire, and we are settling into our new workspace. Our offices are located in two new modular buildings located on a portion of our parking lots.Remarkably, these structures were constructed one month after the fire. We moved into them the first week of December with most rudimentary systems in place. The mobilization of efforts to get these structures up has been amazing.
A great amount of credit must go to Noralea Goodrow, Schumetta McLendon
and Chris Laubach. Schumetta - who served as our interim Children's
Ministries Director last year and this past spring began a new career
in architecture, did the design and served as liaison to the City of
Malibu for permits and other necessary paperwork.
The amount of work to put this together is daunting: new power lines
had to be erected, water mains run to the units, temporary drainage
tanks placed underneath, telephone, computer hookups - all of the
infrastructure of a standard office. (We think you will agree, they
look like a professional office!)
David Conrad of Systems Logic has worked overtime to rebuild our entire computer network from scratch. We are almost up to 90% of where we were - which is remarkable considering that the old system was built over time. We expect, when all things are settled to actually have a more robust system than before.
In addition to physical needs - there is the significant paperwork. The City's office needed permits, reports and other paperwork filed. We are immensely grateful to the city for fast tracking much of this initial process.
And of course, everything must be tracked for the insurance company - so Noralea and Kris Martin deserve major kudos for the extra hours they have logged.
Our next task is to erect a series of structures for the Preschool
on the lower Malibu Knowles lot. This process proceeds more carefully,
as they are units designed for our children, and we need to take great
care to ensure that we build them to specification. We are in close
consultation with several key players to put together an excellent
center to last the next few years.
Despite this amazing progress, we still have much to do. Our attention now turns towards restoring the functions and routines of our ministries... which have not really slowed down. We also continue to study our long-term solution for Sunday worship until the new building is built.
We also want to thank the following folks:
Mod Space - for construction of the Mobile Units
Brooks Furniture - for furniture rentals
Rich Campbell of Image 2000 - for quickly restoring our printing capabilities
Accura Telecom - for restoring our phone service
The amount of work to put this together is daunting: new power lines
had to be erected, water mains run to the units, temporary drainage
tanks placed underneath, telephone, computer hookups - all of the
infrastructure of a standard office. (We think you will agree, they
look like a professional office!) David Conrad of Systems Logic has worked overtime to rebuild our entire computer network from scratch. We are almost up to 90% of where we were - which is remarkable considering that the old system was built over time. We expect, when all things are settled to actually have a more robust system than before.
In addition to physical needs - there is the significant paperwork. The City's office needed permits, reports and other paperwork filed. We are immensely grateful to the city for fast tracking much of this initial process.
And of course, everything must be tracked for the insurance company - so Noralea and Kris Martin deserve major kudos for the extra hours they have logged.
Our next task is to erect a series of structures for the Preschool
on the lower Malibu Knowles lot. This process proceeds more carefully,
as they are units designed for our children, and we need to take great
care to ensure that we build them to specification. We are in close
consultation with several key players to put together an excellent
center to last the next few years.Despite this amazing progress, we still have much to do. Our attention now turns towards restoring the functions and routines of our ministries... which have not really slowed down. We also continue to study our long-term solution for Sunday worship until the new building is built.
We also want to thank the following folks:
Mod Space - for construction of the Mobile UnitsBrooks Furniture - for furniture rentals
Rich Campbell of Image 2000 - for quickly restoring our printing capabilities
Accura Telecom - for restoring our phone service
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
Greetings! We are so much encouraged to read on your website how the Lord has kept you all strong and firm, Certainly the loss is big but it is good to know and feel that the body of christ is strong - thank God for so many Malibu workes and friends who have taken up jobs to carry on the ministry of Malibu Church with such a strong committment and dedication. It is good to know that things are being set up to carry on the day to day work. Praise God.
We do pray that may God be with you all in your rebuilding work and provide all the sources and energy.
Prayerfully yours
Edgar Pace & Amos Pervez
Pakistan Christian Recording Ministries
David Villa, Faisalabad Pakistan
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
Greetings! We are so much encouraged to read on your website how the Lord has kept you all strong and firm, Certainly the loss is big but it is good to know and feel that the body of christ is strong - thank God for so many Malibu workes and friends who have taken up jobs to carry on the ministry of Malibu Church with such a strong committment and dedication. It is good to know that things are being set up to carry on the day to day work. Praise God.
We do pray that may God be with you all in your rebuilding work and provide all the sources and energy.
Prayerfully yours
Edgar Pace & Amos Pervez
Pakistan Christian Recording Ministries
David Villa, Faisalabad Pakistan