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Sanctuary

This used to be the disco dance floor. This will become the santuary for the Rich Heart Baptist Church. The church members are doing and paying for all the work that is to be done on their sanctuary.


   
Santuary Pastor Egi is standing on top of the old disco light standards. All this equipment is being sold to help in the cost of turning a dance floor into a God honoring sanctuary.
   
sanctuary This is what the disco looks like now as it is stripped and ready to be put back together.
   
Fence One of the first things that was needed was to fence in the building to make it secure. This started the 2nd day of ownership.
   
fence To build a fence in Mongolia you start with bricks, these will be covered in cement and painted.
   
The fence was constructed on site, with a welding machine that came with the purchase of the building.
   
Balcony The second floor balcony is being changed to allow access to the south building from the outside of the center building.
   
Doors were opened in both buildings.
   
The floor of the balcony was reinforced, and a wall of bricks (3 layers thick) were constructed for the winterized walls.
   
balcony A view from the parking lot of the work being done on the balcony.
   
classroom This room used to be the Karaoke room. When it is finished it will be one of the rooms used for the Bible Instiute and English Class room. It will be used as the sanctuary until the permanent sanctuary is completed.
   
windows This is the way a window is removed in Mongolia.
   
windows All the old wooden windows are being replaced with dual pane, vinyl, vacuum windows.
   
windows All the windows on the top two floors have been replace.
   
walls Walls are being removed to make room for apartments.
   
toshin This young man is Tooshin. He is leading out in the work of remodeling the ground level floor into offices and classrooms. He has also recently been voted as a teacher at church.
   
yardsale Due to the previous use of all the furniture in the building it has been sold. The funds are being used to help in the remodeling of the building.
   
structure We have been blessed by a family who has helped us above and beyond our wildest dreams with financial help in the remodel of the building. With this help we have been able to do a lot of stuctural upgrades on the oldest of the three buildings. You can see the i-beam in this pictures. We have added metal i-beams to all four floors in the older wooden structure.
   
homedepot This is part of Home Depot Mongolian style. There is not one place where you can go and purchase everything that you need. This street runs for about 2 kilometers and has small vendors packed in every nook and cranny. You can plan on no less then 2 1/2 hours to make a trip to ZooAl. In Mongolian it means 100 families.