The New Home of Amazing Grace Community Church

    Amazing Grace Community Church will celebrate its 6th Birthday in September. For the past 3 years the church has been looking for a building in the North Lethbridge area to purchase and turn into its new home.  They almost had a place in the spring of 2015, but due to the Canadian building codes - the purchase fell through. That ended up being a blessing in disguise. This Spring, 2016, we found an old furniture store on the main street right in the heart of the neighborhoods we serve that was for sale at a price that would allow us to remodel.  
    A group of investors who believe in the mission of Amazing Grace Community Church and the Amazing Kids program agreed to finance the purchase and remodel of the building until such time as Amazing Grace CC is incorporated and can secure their own bank loan.  
    Howard has been spending his summer supervising the many volunteers who have been helping with some very messy jobs, and we have been rewarded by uncovering beautiful brick pillars and hardwood floors. We are hoping that they will be used in the final decor of the building!
    What follows is a time-line of photos showing where we are in the process. Our regular Tuesday, Thursday evening demo times of 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm and Saturday mornings from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm. 
    We do not know when the remodel will be completed - but we will for sure keep you updated. We ask for your prayers that the building remodel will be smooth and finished before Christmas.

Furniture Store to Church! 

In some of our demo we found out that the building
used to be a hardware store. 

This space will become our worship area.

That wall will be opened up to become the stage and storage area.

The storefront areas will become stairs to the basement
and then bathroom areas.

  

Upstairs will become classrooms and downstairs will be
the kitchen and serving area.

  

The side building will become the pastors office,
welcome area, stage and nursery rooms. 

The side building was a storage unit facility in its most recent life. 

The kitchen, with our furniture elevator that will not
be able to stay but we are using it now.

The only bathroom for now - it will disappear later on in demo.

Upstairs rooms. 

View down on the worship area from the classroom area.

View of street windows from kitchen area.

Always wearing masks during demo of walls and carpet.

After removal of all 4 layers of flooring we found the maple hardwood!

A load going to the dumptruck!

  

Mystery legs removing drywall from ceiling.

Ceiling on the floor.

Carpet coming up, two layers of tile under that.

After removal of drywall, we had to remove all of the
remaining nails....at least 9000.

Putting our all into nail removal.

The old heating coming out - new mechanicals will be coming!  

On the way to the dumptruck.

Piles of stuff ready for the dump truck. 

Insulation or cotton candy?  (there was both that day!)

Guests from the states helping with drywall removal
- drywall and plaster layers.

We were given the gift of free use of dump trucks
- I think at least 12 loads have been removed.

Panaroamic view of building waiting for new electricals, plumbing, and walls!