The day has been spent transforming our church facility into a fantastic High Seas Adventure destination. It’s been hot but we’ve done a lot of great work. These pictures don’t do this justice, but we’re really excited for the transformation that will come in the lives of kids as they are confronted with the greatness of the Love of God.
If you’d still like to register kids we still have space for those who are elementary aged, but the slots are filling up fast.
When you don’t pay attentions things can really fall apart. We recently noticed our ITunes feed wasn’t working and probably had not worked for about a year and half. Well, it’s fixed now and though there were not many posts in 2009, we’re almost caught up for the whole of 2010. In the process only the newest material made it to ITunes so you may have missed out on a few things along the way. To compensate we’re adding a link to our Series on Revelation. Though it may not go directly to your ITunes account, you can track it down with the link.
If you haven’t looked at the Archive directories (MP3, OGG, Docs, Spx) recently please do. They are now a lot more useful than before. Why? Because now you can see the full filename in the filename column. That’s a great thing when you’re looking for an audio file. See our audio files all have the date in their title. In the past however all you could see was the first part of the filename eg. WNLA_AM_Servi. Now you can see the whole thing, like WNLA_AM_Service_Sun.Oct.25,2009ED.mp3. That happened to be Q&A Sunday, our most requested Sunday of the year. Another example would be WNLA_AM_Service_Sun.Jul.05,2009ED-Tony_Philips.mp3, when our excellent worship leader Tony Philips spoke back in July. You might have missed that week or you might remember something you need to hear again.
In any case this is a fix we should have made years ago, yes we’ve been podcasting since the early days (2004) of podcasting. It was really an easy fix, it just took a long time to figure out how easy it really was. Now that the Archive Directories are easy to read we hope it will be easier for you to access what you need from WNLArchive.org.
It has been a long year with limited posts to the WNLArchive blog page. However there have been a lot of audio files uploaded to our audio archive. If you’re looking for sermon audio from Whatcom New Life Assembly or Pastor Mike Rody, this is still the place to get it. Our MP3 archive is full and mostly up to date, so look and see what you haven’t heard yet. As always feel free to dig in, download and distribute any of the audio files you find here.
We’re moving ahead with our siding and painting project. We’ve accomplished alot in the past few weeks. Watch the video and see what we’ve done.
After last Saturday it appears we are half way sided. The weather wasn’t pretty but the siding sure looks good. We had a lot of help from a lot of people who showed up despite the rain and uncomfortable conditions. Here are a few pictures and we’ve included a link to a video we made.
What a day. We started our workday with 4 eager 
souls waiting in the parking lot before 8:00AM. That alone was exciting and probably a first in the 8 years I’ve been here. We started them out digging. Our first project was to take out our “grass garden”. Our front beds have been waiting for serious landscaping for about 2 years. In the mean time the grass grew with a vengeance. We’ve totally removed the grass about 3 times now. This time however we found the grass was not well rooted and it came out much easier than before. It seems persistance has paid off. Now we’ll lay down casseron, plastic and bark on top for a long lasting grass free bed.
Our primary goal for the day was to do siding. We did very well with that. We now have the North facing wall of the sanctuary covered in
siding. 
It was a very good effort from a lot of people. We have pictures of several here, though not all. One of the great things about today was that 6 or 8 people 
now have experience siding. That should make next weeks work day even more effective as we can set up several crews and do multiple wall sections at a time.
We had a great lunch, thanks to Gabi Bailey. Unfortunately there are no pictures. The potato salad and boiled corn were fantastic with hamburgers. We’re so glad Fred came. He was able to set up chairs and tables as well as shuck the corn. One might overlook that contribution, but for those that ate it was very much a blessing.
Once the grass was dug out, we moved the diging crew on to an all important job: Skunk Abaitment. Yes, for you who have not been here on one of those odiforous Sunday mornings when a frightened skunk has taken refuge under one of the cement slabs near our doors, skunk abaitment is a very important task. We have found concrete is the best method. We
especially appreciate the efforts of Jerry Holcom saw the project through to 
the end. As you can see in the pictures, a trench was dug. Rebar was pounded into the ground and the trench was fulled with cement. We’ve had some success with this method at the parsonage, except where the scunk burrowed out through the wet cement, and hope it will work here. 
Aparently some lucky little guy even got to write his name in the cement. Some kids get to do all the cool things. His dad would have never let him do that. Thank you Jerry.
All in all it was a great day. We’ll pray the scunks to try to break in or out tonight and we’ll start preping on Monday to so we can put up siding on the south side next weekend. Please join us Saturday, September 20 for our next siding party. We look forward to seeing you here.
-P. Mike
You often here the line “what a difference a day makes.” Today was the day for our facility. We now have new siding on the building. The old is gone (well, actually going) and the new has come at least in small measure.
We really appreciate Jim Fox for his long work day Saturday. I’m sure he didn’t want us taking his picture but it is here anyway. Thanks to Jim’s excellent
supervision, patience and direction, 
we were able to start applying the siding and what a difference it makes. I don’t think these pictures do justice to the transformation that’s taking place on our building. If we had been able to do the whole church overnight, some of our people would have driven right by not knowing it was there.
Others might have panicked at the drab color. I kind of like the color myself, though with out the smudges of caulk. and the impact marks from hammer strikes. This is just the color of the siding as it comes off the pallet. We have done nothing to it and it already looks pretty good.
The new horizontal patterm is very nice. The shingles really look great under
the windows. I hope everyone will be as pleased as I am. We have really been blessed to see this come about. There’s a lot of work to go still, but praise God for His provision. May we see an equal transformation in the many lives the many people we touch daily as a church.
This week we started more noticeable work. Saturday, Jim wrapped and trimmed a window on the north side of
the Sanctuary. It was somewhat of a proof of concept job. It seems to have worked well. Now we need to wrap the whole building (the part being resided) and trim all the windows. It is our desire to do this in a timely manner but we want to follow quickly with the siding. We don’t want to leave the building wrapped and unsided for a long period of time. Now we have to schedule capable worker and get the job done.
This week we used expanding foam to seal the gaps created by the lapboard laying over the channel siding.
It may not be very noticeable in our picture but you can see the old siding has a channel pattern that drops down behind the lapboard. It appears there is some yellow goo that has bubbled out. That’s the foam. If siding were installed over the channel and the gap left unsealed, it would create an inviting environment for various bugs and critters to build homes and nests.
If that explanation doesn’t make sense to you just go out and look at the white board and see the foam that fills the gaps at the bottom of the channels. Remember bugs and critters like to climb up from below so this foam will keep them out, like the cork in the top of a bottle. This will extend the life of our siding and the rest of the building.
In addition to the foam job, there was more work done on the “Z” metal flashing. This is a strip of metal that sits atop the lapboard and will eventually channel water out over the board and away from the inside of the wall structure.
None of this was highly demanding work, but it needed to be done and took about 12 hours of work.
If you are interested in volunteering for jobs of this nature, please speak with Jim Fox. He will be the one who knows what jobs are coming up and can be done with more or less training, experience or skill.
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