Missions Building - A Year Later

It has been almost a year since my last posting. Along the way several have asked to have the pictures updated. Since last February we have completed the western reception and administration areas. There are now four offices, a registration area, a break room, two bathrooms, a classroom, and a meeting area.

It took a combination of camp staff, volunteers, and some others who came alongside to help frame, wire, sheetrock, paint, plumb, carpet, tile, and install stuff so we could move the offices and registration into the Missions Building. It also set up the Great Room to fully host the recreation and worship activities of the youth camps. The family conferences as well as Friends of Wi-Ne-Ma Day also enjoyed using the full building in 2011. We were able to move our offices into the Missions Building in July. We have found it very helpful to be in closer proximity to support the activities in Camp.

We do still need to complete the large restrooms. If the timing works out we hope to finish those in 2012.

Even without those, however, the building is proving to be a wonderful asset for the Camp as we seek to serve our guests, campers, and other friends who come to Wi-Ne-Ma Christian Camp.

Thanks to so many people for their commitment to this project. We look forward to its full completion even as we are enjoying its usefulness right now.

Mezzanine Meeting Area

Mezzanine Rest Room

Mezzanine Class Room

Entry/Reception Area/Registration Window

West Entrance

Registration Window

Registration Work Area

Office Hallway

Angie's Office

Ester's Office

Leroy's Office

As you can tell from the office pictures we are all moved in and have lots of projects going at this time.

Walls and Sheetrock

The crew along with the help of several volunteers from Newberg Christian Church have been working towards putting up sheetrock on the walls in the western administration and reception areas. The Mezzanine level is being taped, mudded and sanded. The lower level has about two-thirds of the ceiling sheetrock installed. The pictures show some temporary lighting. Thank you to all who have taken some time to come over and help out.

Mezzanine Work Room

Mezzanine south hall way and work room.

Mezzanine open area looking west.

Mezaanine open area looking east, toward the Great Room.

Mezzanine, northwest office.

Entry Level, Administrative offices.

Entry level, looking the other way in the administrative offices.

Entry Level, Registration Window to be.

Entry level, south hallway into the main reception area.

Reception area, looking toward the administrative offices and registration windows.

Bare Rooms

Calling this post "Bare Rooms" because rooms are finally starting to emerge in the west entrance and administration areas. We got to the point where significant visual changes could be seen. With a lot of work over the past few months from the Thursday boys, work party from Adventure Christian Church in McMinnville, camp staff, and other volunteers the walls are going up making rooms out of empty space. Here is what it is starting to look like.

Mezzanine Room looking south.


Mezzanine Room looking north.

Mezzanine Level, north hallway, office on the left.

Northwest Corner upper office.

Looking north to south on the Mezzanine level.

Entry Level, office wall. Still another wall to come where the caution tape is.

Looking north to south across the reception area.

Back on the Mezzanine, southwest room.

Looking south to north on the Mezzanine Level.

Southwest room on the entry level.

Another view of the soutwest rooms, entry level.

Entry Level Reception Area Bathroom.

Looking from reception area into northwestern offices.

Mezzanine Level Bathroom

Mezzanine Southwest Corner Room

Framed

Work has been moving on the Missions Building project since the summer camping season concluded. Friends of Wi-Ne-Ma Day gave a big boost to the project as we started working in earnest on the remaining areas. The electrician has been in to run a number of the remaining circuits. The black paper has been installed over the mezzanine area allowing the rooms in the upstairs level to be framed in. The Fire Alarm plan is being reviewed and after the fire alarm system is installed we can start working on the downstairs and the bathrooms that will be part of the western end of the building.

Timely financial gifts and timely workers have made this possible as we look forward to having our offices and some restrooms in by the next camping season.

Framing in a storage and equipment room on the Mezzanine level.
Finally, through with the black paper covering the insulation. This has been one of the most tedious jobs in the process. But, it looks great once it is done!

Putting up the strandboard backing on the Mezzanine Level.

One of the upstairs rooms framed in.

Looking from the inside out.

A closer view of the black paper project and preparation for framing a room.

The summer camping season is drawing to a close. The summer youth camps are concluded. We still have Family Bible Conference, Singles Retreat, Septemberfest, and Friends of Wi-Ne-Ma Day before we come to a pretty full fall for retreat groups.

We haven't had much of a chance to do a lot with the Missions Building. But, there has been a bit of progress. Good news is that the stairs have been put in on both ends of the mezzanine. And, they have passed inspection. Other pictures are of work in the west and south entry ways.

Next up in September is to get the septic tanks put in which will allow us to proceed with plumbing and bathrooms. We also need to have some electrical work done as well as the conferences being over before we can start on the west end offices and mezzanine.

We are looking forward to Friends of Wi-Ne-Ma Day as giving a good donation boost for us to be able to continue on this winter as we have time now to get working on these other areas.

The Missions Building was a wonderful asset to the various programs this summer and we got a taste of how much more it can do once it is completed.

Thanks for following along.

A view of the steps.
The mezzanine ready to run some wires.

South entrance.

West Entrance

The Great Room set up for a youth camp.

Has It Really Been This Long Since My Last Post

I have been gently reminded that there have not been any recent pictures put up of the progress in the Missions Building. We have had a number of volunteers in since the insulation was started. It took quite a while, but finally all the insulation in the Great Room was put up. Then the even more tedious part of covering the insulation with black paper (held up with tape and wire) really put the finishing touches on the room. Below is a picture of the room set up for 1st Jr. High Camp so you can see how the room turned out.


In other news we have had a volunteer couple in -- Marv and Jan Bullock, -- who, along with friends Hal Stewart, Frank Barnett, and Greg Gleason have built the second set of stairs, and have been working on the two entrances. The other pictures below show how the west entrance looks as it is being cased out. Their plan is to work on finishing this part of the project by staining the wood.


It is really looking sharp.


We have been registering the youth camps in the Missions Building and really appreciating the space. Next up in the project is to get some wiring done in anticipation of framing the west end administrative areas.

We are hoping for a drier fall so we can more easily dig in the septic tanks and start working on the restroom portion this winter.


Thanks for your continued interest and support for this project.

The stairs that Marv built. Going Up.

The stairs that Marv built. Going down.

Inuslation going up in the Mezzanine.

The rest of the insulation in the mezzanine.

Looking out the West Entrance Windows

Looking back up toward the Mezzanine

West Entrance, Looking South

The great room set up for 1st Jr. High Camp.