Fixup is in progress!

Lots of holes & gouges in the walls, which have to be filled & smoothed before painting.











Paul and Jane Zilmer work on patching and cleaning the walls in the green classroom. (Can't wait for this color to go away!)


















Dana Pratt, Jane & Paul Zilmer look over furniture donated by Ray Pratt's employer, Busey Bank.




















Tape marking where the new door will be...














The new door is in!


















And now we have access from the front (where the shop will be) into the meeting room in back.















The landlord is closing in the openings into the adjoining spaces (4 doors and a window). Here the window has been filled in with drywall. You can also see that the nasty carpet has been pulled up (it was glued down), and the wall patching is in progress.



This doorway at the end of our hallway has been closed in. The shop is to the left, and the green classroom is to the right.

Before pix

Thanks to Norm Fadelle, we now have some "before" pictures of our space in the Lincoln Square Mall. Thanks, Norm! (Actually, the first one is from Paul Z, but the rest are Norm's.) Click on the picture to see it larger.


Here's the shop front from inside the mall. Nice orange paint! With stripes, even!

You can see there's a door into the back - there is a hallway with 2 classrooms (offices for the previous tenant). But no access into the space at the rear -- except by going into the adjoining space that we are NOT renting.








The main room in the back has black and red stripes - cool for the former school of cosmetology, I guess. And, it's a mess! You can't see all the old hair dye & other crud on the floor.

There will be a doorway at the far end to provide access into this space from the front - through one of the classrooms.






In this shot you can see one of the doorways into the adjoining space.

This space will be where our ecclesia meets on Sundays, and also where we'll have seminars.










One of the classrooms. Orange again! Plus a nice one-way glass looking into the adjoining space, and a carpet that is beyond hope.

We are committed!

On Monday evening, June 15, 2009, the members of the Christadelphians of Champaign County (CCC) ecclesia met, and unanimously approved going forward with a Bible Education Center in Urbana. The following day, the lease was signed with Lincoln Square Mall – and we were committed!

We have begun patching and cleaning the walls in preparation for painting, removing old carpet, etc. Mall management has committed to closing off the existing doors & window to the adjoining spaces by the end of next week. We are hiring a contractor to put through a new doorway from the front part into the back part of the space.

Lots to do! Very exciting!