Last Fall the Lord gave us a place of oour own on the seventh floor of the building you see here ... "can somebody find me a Shirpa?"
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The Great Commission Center
Last Fall the Lord gave us a place of oour own on the seventh floor of the building you see here ... "can somebody find me a Shirpa?"
Zai Met Zou, Hallelujah!
In Chinese, Zai Met Zou (spelling may be wrong) means "Praise the Lord!" This quotation from the 150th Psalm is the favorite song of the sister in the middle, behind Irene. Purple sweater grey blazer.
The Work Begins
This little girl is the landlord's grand-daughter. He's excited because he wants her to improve her English. They live one story above us, on the eighth floor ... with no elevator!In any event, we went to look at this place on a Saturday, and I asked Immanuel to tell the landlord we'd make a decision and then if we felt the Lord was granting us favor we'd meet him the following Saturday.
As it turns out Immanuel called me on Monday, and asked me if I thought we should agree to lease the place. I told him yes, but I wouldn't get paid until Saturday. By the time the day was over we had a place to meet.
That Saturday we also talked about how to make the place suitable for the larger meeting. If you notice the very first picture, as well as the one on the far right of the top row, you'll notice we are standing in a hallway, between two rows of offices -- eight in all.
On our way out we stopped on the fifth floor, where there is a record company which has the same corner as us. No one was in the office, but strangely the door was open, so Immanuel walks right in like he owns the place, and I follow. I notice they only have the four offices on one side of the room. The rest is a wide-open space.
We agree that this would be a good arrangement for us. All we'd need to do is tear down the walls on one side, and we'd have the same configuration. We just have to find a contractor to do the work.
Week Two
O.K. a tribute to Chinese ingenuity and drive. The first week we talked about taking down the interior walls on one side to give us a bigger meeting room.
In my mind that meant a project that would take at least a month or two.
Look gain at the hallway where we were standing the previous week. Then look carefully at the floor tiles ... notice anything?
In my mind that meant a project that would take at least a month or two.
Look gain at the hallway where we were standing the previous week. Then look carefully at the floor tiles ... notice anything?
Monday, February 26, 2007
Evangelist Shoes
Man! I wish you could see these more clearly. The day we started to clean up the GCC Immanuel shows up with these amazing "spats" Orange toes and last; with a turqouise racing stripe across the instep ... briefcase in hand. I snapped two shots without paying attention to the focus, so a lot of the detail got left out ... but man, oh MAN!!!
Week Two Part 2
These pictures show a little more detail than the ones in "Week Two Part One." In the bottom center picture you can see a line running parallel to the wall. Yes, that's where the other wall was, the week before. In the picture from the previous week you see me standing in a hallway with the landlord, and his wife and granddaughter. The line in the floor shows just how narrow that hallway was.
You can also tell from the last picture, here.
The other amazing thing is the guy who did this work -- by himself I might add -- only charged us 500 yuan to tear down the wall and haul away the trash, and another 150 yuan to paint.
The pictures that follow are from a couple of months later -- after we finally "settled in."
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