Shaping up

Although we missed our original (quite ambitious) target for getting the shop open, we're getting very close to being ready!

All the carpet is glued down. The water-damaged wall was replaced by mall management, and has been painted. Installation of vinyl baseboard is about 40% done. Most of the doors have been re-hung. Much of the furniture is now in place. We've priced and stocked the displays with the Bibles we'll be selling. Our introductory Bible course (God's Master Plan, developed in South Africa) has been reformatted for US paper size and printed, now awaits folding. T-shirts featuring the Good News of the Kingdom of God logo have been ordered. Some marketing materials have been prepared. A data model and usage scenarios have been provided to those who will develop our student-tracking software.

As you can see, the shop area is just about ready to go!














The classrooms are ready for students to sit down and start studying!
















Jane prices the Bibles. We've included some Bibles in languages other than English. (Extra credit if you can identify all the languages shown!)
















This week, with God's blessing, we will: complete baseboard installation; get 175 signs printed, which will be placed (at no charge!) in all the buses in the Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Transit District; get some signs printed for inside & outside the shop; develop a work schedule for the volunteers who will staff the shop. And a bunch more things both in the BEC and on the administrative side, most of them small in themselves, but there's still a lot of them!

Our main thing now is to have everyone back in town! We've had several gone to Bible Schools or on overseas trips. But, with God's blessing, in just over a week we will be open for business!