PRAYER LIST

Here is a list of items that you could be praying for, as you can see it is in order of priority. As prayers are answered I will highlight them. Thank you for your on going prayers.

1. Building permit.

A. Submit plans to city for review and permit approval

B. Pay building permit fees.

2. Site work and underground.

A. Rough grading and dirt work for building pads, fields and amphitheater.

B. Underground utilities – electrical, gas, water (Cal Water), sewer and storm drains, etc.

C. Irrigation well improvements and irrigation system.

D. Concrete curb, gutters and sidewalks.

E. Street and parking lot paving (partial).

3. Administration building.

A. Building pad completion and compaction.

B. Concrete slab poured.

C. Framing, truss set and roofing.

D. Rough installation of electrical, plumbing, HVAC, gas, alarm, etc.

E. Windows and doors.

F. Stucco exterior and drywall interior.

G. Utility finishes, built-ins and interior details

H. Paint and finish work interior, color coat exterior.

I. Flooring and finish work.

4. Landscape and maintenance building.

A. Begin landscape planting and final irrigation of Cherry Avenue, lovers Lane and around administration building.

B. Build maintenance/storage building.

5. Existing campus renovation.

6. Ministry sports field.

7. Amphitheater.

EXCITING NEWS ABOUT THE NEW PROPERTY

If you have been keeping up with the goings on for the new property lately you'll notice that not much has been published about what is going on, that doesn't mean that things are not happening, and we are working on ways to improve the communications to you. Look forward to great things happening very soon.
Now for a update on what is going on. Last time I mentioned the California Watering Ordinance was causing some delays in our moving forward, well we have had a numerous meetings with our landscape architect and have now have a landscape plan that will meet the requirements of the ordinance and not make our campus look like a desert.
One of the issues with the ordinance is the amount of water we will be allowed to irrigate all the landscaping and where will that water come from? We have been working with a pump company to determine if we can use the existing ag well that is on the property for all our landscape irrigation needs. It turns out that our well is usable and that it will produce a conservative 250 gallons per minute but that volume is insufficient to meet our total needs. The amount of water that we will have available also effect the overall design of the irrigation system and subsequent cost. With the help of our landscape architect and Dennis Whistler, our architect, we brainstormed ideas and came up with a plan for watering that we can use the existing well volume, at least for several years but it involves getting the city to allow us to water 6 days a week instead of 3 days per the cities watering ordinance. Many of you are probably aware of the odd address, even address watering schedule in the city.
We have had a letter drafted and submitted to the city for several weeks asking for a variance to their watering schedule or allow us to establish a second address for the site. We have yet to hear back from them. The letter indicates that the original use of the property was for about 150 single family homes to be built which would have both even and odd address that would allow for 6 watering days of all the properties. As a single entity, the church would not use as much water as 150 homes but only has one address and that would limit us to 3 days to irrigate all the landscaping. Our current well would not be able to meet that watering schedule to keep everything alive and growing, thus we would have to drill a new well at an expense of around $75,000.00. This would a "hardship" for our church.
I am asking you to pray that the city will allow us a variance or that we can have a second address for the property to help save our resources. We have seen God working in this move all ready with the planning committee and the city council, we know God will listen to our prayers.
Thank you for your prayers and I will have more in the near future.
Jim Wood

New Campus Prayer Summit This Saturday

Church leadership has set the date for a new campus prayer summit. The prayer summit will be held on January 8, 2011 at 8:00 am in the sanctuary. The summit will be attended by the Elder board, the Deacon board, the NCCT committee and the pastoral staff. The purpose of the summit is to collectively pray for the new campus project and to seek God's wisdom with regards to the new campus. It is important to the leaders of the church to hear from God as we proceed in expanding His kingdom. Please pray for the Prayer Summit and the leadership of the church as we seek to hear from God this Saturday.