WATCH THIS SPACE

This week, once the final permits are in hand, the contractors will begin work at St Mark's. They will bring in their trailer and their Port-A-Potties and various other materials and equipment. They will prepare the site, excavate for the building, and create the elevator tower. By late November they will probably be ready to demolish the wall into the church at basement level and at sacristy level, for construction for the new entries.
Here is a "before" view (thanks to our roving camera person Louis Stiller) of the back of the church. Watch this space (or drive around the back of the church every now and then) to see how things are coming along.

Immediately

Immediately is a rather ironic name for this blog. It is, as the explanation says, a word that the author of the gospel of Mark uses all the time, over and over again, breathlessly linking one unit of the story of Jesus to the next.

This blog is mainly meant to chronicle our two big "before and after" projects, the building of a new disabled access entrance and the building of a new tracker organ. Both of these are huge projects, brought about after a long process of reflection, planning and prioritizing and made possible by a generous bequest from a parishioner. The irony is that both of these projects, which have occupied a lot of the rector and vestry's time and both of which represent decisions made over almost a year ago, both of these projects appear to most people who don't go to all those meetings to be moving along not IMMEDIATELY but at a glacially slow pace. Still, we have drawings of both and time to chronicle the "before" state of things. Check by now and then (or better still get atom or rss feed so you know when something new is happening) and see how things are progressing. The rector's blog Things Seen and Unseen will morph into a more personal blog and this blog will become the parish news blog. Immediatelyl. Or perhaps more gradually...