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By Rod and Sherry
Boyd
Additional
construction teams are needed for 2009!
August 2009... 40% of the
third story has now been blocked and necessary bond beams. The
fourth story floor will be poured the first week of September and the
roof will be finished by mid-October in order to prepare for the next
two teams:
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October 10-18, Eastridge
Assembly, Issaquah, WA
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November 1-15, Portland
Christian Center
Please pray that sufficient
construction offerings will be given to complete the work!
June 2008... Final
"preparations" have been completed for the two teams arriving:
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June 20-28, Eastern Washington--Pasco Faith Assembly; Central Assembly, Yakima; and Stone
Church, Yakima
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July 18-26, Christ's Church,
Double Springs, Alabama
These teams will finish laying block
on the second floor, pour bond beams and begin laying block on the third
floor. However, their construction offerings will cover only about half of what is
needed. Can you help?
Please write us at
Panorama@Boyds.org or send your offerings to:
Jireh Project
7795
Assemblies of God World Missions
1445 Boonville Ave.
Springfield, MO 65802
May 2008... Construction begins
again at the Jehovah Jireh Good Shepherd School. Preparations are
underway for the Faith Assembly Pasco building team that will arrive to
Panama on June 20th.
The next phase will include:
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Welding c-channel flooring
system, corrugated metal and pouring concrete for third story floor.
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Placing the third story columns
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Finishing block work on second
and third stories
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Welding crossbeams, c-channel
and corrugated metal for the fourth story flooring system.
Project Background...
The Jehovah Jireh
Good Shepherd School was founded in 1997 in an old house next door to
the church. There were just 35 students that first year, kindergarten
and first grade. The school has added a grade each year and now offers
preschool through ninth grade. Of the 25 schools in Panama, Jehovah
Jireh has the strongest church-school relationship. The pastor,
director and growing congregation are committed to the ministry of the
school.
All of our teams
that visit Panama know this school. We always include a stop. It’s the
one without walls on the hill. But things have changed! The church is
working on finishing the sanctuary!
The church and
school are strategically located in the community of Pedregal on Tocumen
Way, the highway between Panama City and the international airport.
This suburban community is one of the fastest growing areas of Panama,
with hundreds of new, inexpensive tract homes. The pastor and
congregation are keenly aware of the unique opportunity to reach out to
this community.
The school has
consistently grown in spite of very humble facilities. Each year we’ve
tried to help them extend the roof and put up more walls to “carve out”
new classrooms. Today there are more than 350 children and youth who
are receiving a quality Christian education. But those 350 children are
crowded into 10 classrooms. There is such a potential for growth, but
no classrooms.
It’s time for an
extreme makeover! We need to tear down the old house and replace it with
a new 40’ x 65’ 3-story building. We need your help! We need at least 6
MAPS construction teams to come to Panama in 2007 to work on this
project. Our goal for 2007 is to finish the first two floors of the
building and put a roof over the third floor. When finished, the new
building will double the capacity of the school!
We hope you will
consider this important need. Construction costs continue to rise. We
estimate the cost of the project to be $100,000. Can you help? Please
write us at
Panorama@Boyds.org or send your offerings to:
Jireh Project
7795
Assemblies of God World Missions
1445 Boonville Ave.
Springfield, MO 65802
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Blocking is now 40% finished on third floor (7/25/08)
Cross beams and 4th story flooring system (c-channels
and corrugated metal) finished 6/17/08
Third story floor poured the end of May '08.
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Promo Video
Below are links to the 4-minute promotional video for
the Jehovah Jireh School Project.
Click on the link to play the file. Right mouse button click over
the link for the desired size to save the file:
Medium 10.6 MB:
Play or Download*
Small 3.2 MB:
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*Right mouse button click
over link, "save target as..."
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