Month 3 - September 2015

The timelapse video from last month is now ready to view. This one includes the floor going down and the steel going up so exciting things:

The Steel Goes Up

Next photo from Roger: "Too much rain for my normal angle - the worship area begins to take shape"

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Steel Arrives

The build is coming along rapidly now. The steel is starting to go together and will be lifted early next week. Roger will be there to take photos and the next time-lapse video will be ready early in October.

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Month 2 - August 2015

Work has been carrying on on the site despite the recent weather. Here is the timelapse video from August Unfortunately a few days went missing at the end of the month where I tried to squeeze two months out of one set of batteries.

Rebuild update September 2015

As many of you have probably seen, our baptistry has been built!
The structure is clearly visible from Merland Close. It is a great and important stage in the build, and, indeed, in the life of our church.

Here are some of the things the Bible says on baptisms to guide us in our prayers for the rest of the building project.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Matthew 3:16 ESV / And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” 

The layout is also taking form giving us a good idea of the size and floorplan of our church. The wall to the right of the baptistry marks the boundary of the worship area. The diagonal wall at the front of the picture below will be the new rear lobby

We will keep you updates with progress on this blog. 

Next week we will have an interview with Ian Ford, 

360° Tour

There has been a lot of looking forward recently. We're looking forward to our new building and have recently launched a new website. While it's good to look forward it's also nice to remember where we've come from. On the new website you can take a 360° tour of our old building as it was in February this year.
http://www.merlandrisechurch.org.uk/360

Month 1 - July 2015

It's already been a month since the old church building was demolished. While it may feel that progress has slowed, the groundworks have been progressing well. Watch the last 30 days in 30 seconds below

Demolition

If you've been past the Church Building lately you will have seen that it had now been demolished. We're really excited about what this means for the future of our Church in this community and we're really looking forward to the building that's to come and the wonderful things that God will do there.

To record the process we have a time-lapse camera in place on the site and below is the first video from the camera documenting the demolition of our current building

The next phase is now slower but we'll add more videos as we reach further milestones.

Rebuild Update September 2014

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Rebuild Update Mar 2014

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