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| − | Working on this project has been an exercise in faith. I started out doing this project by myself, not knowing when it would be completed. Instead of panicking, I just had faith it would work out. I | + | Working on this project has been an exercise in faith. I started out doing this project by myself, not knowing when it would be completed. Instead of panicking, I just had faith it would work out. For 3 weeks I went through the routine of taking my daughter Megan to practice for Theater Orangeville production of "Treasure Island" (she is female lead). I would work for 2 hours in morning, go home, then return for another 2 hours at night. During those 3 weeks, it went from searing heat in morning at beginning of August to simultaneous chill/heat in morning towards late August. Many times when sanding (especially in the evening), I would ask myself, "what am I getting myself into? What in heaven's name have I done?". But like Sandra preaches in her sermon about a promise (covenant), I cannot let anyone down, especially since I knew of the importance of this and I knew the required work when I started this project. It would be nice to have help, but if I have to do this myself, so be it, because I like the people at this church... |
| − | # To improve appearance of church (i.e. doors are the "window to the soul" and the "first impression). | + | I guess that I took-on this project for several reasons: |
| − | # To give a sense of Westmininster's renewal at the start of the year and encourage participation. | + | |
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| + | # To improve appearance of church (i.e. doors are the "window to the soul" and not a second time to give the correct "first impression"). | ||
| + | # I wanted to do something to "spruce-up" the appearance of the church. It is beautiful, but unfortunately some parts have a very "tired" look. | ||
| + | # I would like to redo the front entrances, but let's face it, that is a BIG, BIG project, so let me do something smaller (although it is big), and that will at least move in right direction. | ||
| + | # The finish on the doors were not only "going-going", but had "gone" in some places, and needed to stop / correct the damage. | ||
| + | # To give a sense of Westmininster's renewal at the start of the year and encourage participation (what one person can do). | ||
Now that I finally see the project gaining momentum, I see my faith was truly rewarded! | Now that I finally see the project gaining momentum, I see my faith was truly rewarded! | ||
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| + | Nice words from people including Dona Henderson, Margaret Boggs, Chuck Heron, Sandra, Tom and Lynne (to name a few). | ||
| + | Also felt a connection to someone that I believe goes to Al-anon. I don't know name, but he has a mustache and sometimes wears a hat. He was very supportive of me almost on a daily basis. In fact, I think he knew me by name, but I didn't know his, and I don't think he goes to Sunday service (I found that quite interesting). He appreciated how much work I was doing, and offered to help if I got tired. In fact, we started talking and found out he drove a cab in Kingston where I grew up. We determined the wealthy owner, Mark Greenwood, was someone that was in my grade 5 class! I want to show him a picture for verification... | ||
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| + | Too bad many people are afraid to volunteer. If you keep an open-mind, you will be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams. You just have to keep the "nose to the grindstone", and not expect it to come right away - it will come to you... I guess that ties in the act of faith - a practical application perhaps... I've gotten to become close friends with Earl Williams and his family. I'm certain a lot about learning about a person is when working with them. We had lots of time to do that when working on the computer lab. | ||
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| + | Also, although I thought I was pretty handy, when you learn to listen, you can learn so much from professionals, or people with more experience. I had always thought that I could volunteer with "Habitat for Humanity" to learn more building skills. Although this is still a great endeavor, I only need to look to Westminster to gain many of those skills! Again, it came to me in time... | ||
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| − | ''<font color="blue">Wow, first door urethaned. I feel as if I could cry for joy! (I feel a major milestone has been achieved). Showed various church members that were present for running club or clothing sale... | + | ''<font color="blue">Wow, first door urethaned... I feel as if I could cry for joy! (I feel a major milestone has been achieved). Showed various church members that were present for "running club" or "clothing sale"... |
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| + | Encouraged with look of urethaned door, decided to return to church at 12:30 pm to take a picture and post to WIKI... | ||
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| + | '''Wednesday September 1st, 2010''' | ||
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| + | Tom Smith dropped by in the morning, and asked what he could do, I thought that was very nice... | ||
| + | I showed him that he could start sanding door #2... | ||
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| + | Finished Door #3 tonight. Trying to match bottom (weathered) portion of door with top was really a task - it didn't give up without a struggle that is for certain... | ||
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| + | '''Thursday September 2nd, 2010''' | ||
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| + | Decided to resume sanding for door #2 this afternoon, but it started to rain. That's OK, I had run out of sand-paper anyways... | ||
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| + | '''Friday September 3rd, 2010''' | ||
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| + | Decided to sand in the evening since sun did come out in the late afternoon. | ||
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| + | Interesting that days can go by, and practically "invisible" to people and traffic on Broadway, then today three events in short segments: | ||
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| + | * The Viponds (sp?) walked by and took a look at the doors. | ||
| + | * Female motorist stopped to take pictures of church. | ||
| + | * Person came up to ask if we needed restoration work at top of church (gave card and said church was beautiful). | ||
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| + | Sometimes I get a honk from a car, but have no clue who it is.. | ||
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| + | I am still "chipping away at it...". Hope that the weather is consistently nice this September... | ||
Murray | Murray | ||
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| + | '''Sunday September 5th, 2010''' | ||
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| + | Had several congregation members comment on the church doors... that was nice. | ||
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| + | Including a compliment and also asking "I guess you get people offering advice", which I appreciated, since they would appreciate that I don't need advice from experts, but people to help out! :) Easy to give advice when looking and not participating... I'm guessing that's the real meaning of the saying "Everyone's an expert"... ;) | ||
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| + | I will see if the weather clears up this Monday (tomorrow) to try working on the door in the evening... | ||
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| + | '''Sunday September 12th, 2010''' | ||
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| + | A solid group of congregation members were looking and commenting among themselves regarding the doors. They didn't notice I was there and it made me happy people are taking notice and realizing this improves the look of the church... It was early, and both doors were closed which I guess made them pause, and take notice and discuss...<br /><br />:) | ||
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| + | '''Sunday September 26th, 2010''' | ||
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| + | <span style="color:blue">This "Refinishing the Church Doors" project was mentioned in church meeting. I didn't expect that, but cool!<br /><br />What I believe was more important was the "tie-in" to use of WIKIs (a modern tool to help solve modern and complex problems). As long as this tool is used within proper "rules" (I could see certain areas overseen by facilitators, etc) then this tool should be powerful for this church.</span> | ||
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| + | '''Friday October 1st, 2010''' | ||
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| + | ''Finished the fourth and final door!'' Hard to imagine that I started near the beginning of August. It took nearly the entire month of September to complete the fourth door due to the weather, scheduling, wedding bookings, etc... The latch on the fourth door is not working correctly, so I filled out a Property report (for the first time) to have that repaired...<br /><br />The only task remaining is to finish sanding the refinishing the wooden strips (which are in my garage, and can be completed any time before it started to get cold.<br /><br /> | ||
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| + | '''Saturday October 2nd, 2010''' | ||
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| + | <span style="color:blue">I completed the project. I sanded the wooden strips in my garage last night, and urethane them this afternoon. The wooden strips give the door a more "complete" look. I have asked Brian H (and family) to take pictures of the doors, so I can post on the WIKI for information/historical purposes. There are some metal screws holding the wooden strips, but they can easily be replaced with brass screws in the not-to-distant future...<br /><br />QED...<br /><br />This is Murray Saul saying <i>"Over and Out..."</i></span> | ||
Latest revision as of 17:45, 2 October 2010
Tuesday August 10th, 2010
Here is e-mail that I sent to Sandra regarding interesting benefits associated with this project...
Hi Sandra,
This evening I started to sand the church doors. It will be a slow process, but it will get done. When I stopped sanding the doors and was removing rust off the iron railing, a man in a backpack stopped and mentioned how nice the church was, he was taking pictures of the church in the morning and was going to come back to take some more in the evening light... I said, "the doors will be finished when you come back..." ;)
It is nice sometimes to focus on the little things that help out the church...
Murray
Friday August 27th, 2010
Working on this project has been an exercise in faith. I started out doing this project by myself, not knowing when it would be completed. Instead of panicking, I just had faith it would work out. For 3 weeks I went through the routine of taking my daughter Megan to practice for Theater Orangeville production of "Treasure Island" (she is female lead). I would work for 2 hours in morning, go home, then return for another 2 hours at night. During those 3 weeks, it went from searing heat in morning at beginning of August to simultaneous chill/heat in morning towards late August. Many times when sanding (especially in the evening), I would ask myself, "what am I getting myself into? What in heaven's name have I done?". But like Sandra preaches in her sermon about a promise (covenant), I cannot let anyone down, especially since I knew of the importance of this and I knew the required work when I started this project. It would be nice to have help, but if I have to do this myself, so be it, because I like the people at this church...
I guess that I took-on this project for several reasons:
- To improve appearance of church (i.e. doors are the "window to the soul" and not a second time to give the correct "first impression").
- I wanted to do something to "spruce-up" the appearance of the church. It is beautiful, but unfortunately some parts have a very "tired" look.
- I would like to redo the front entrances, but let's face it, that is a BIG, BIG project, so let me do something smaller (although it is big), and that will at least move in right direction.
- The finish on the doors were not only "going-going", but had "gone" in some places, and needed to stop / correct the damage.
- To give a sense of Westmininster's renewal at the start of the year and encourage participation (what one person can do).
Now that I finally see the project gaining momentum, I see my faith was truly rewarded!
Nice words from people including Dona Henderson, Margaret Boggs, Chuck Heron, Sandra, Tom and Lynne (to name a few).
Also felt a connection to someone that I believe goes to Al-anon. I don't know name, but he has a mustache and sometimes wears a hat. He was very supportive of me almost on a daily basis. In fact, I think he knew me by name, but I didn't know his, and I don't think he goes to Sunday service (I found that quite interesting). He appreciated how much work I was doing, and offered to help if I got tired. In fact, we started talking and found out he drove a cab in Kingston where I grew up. We determined the wealthy owner, Mark Greenwood, was someone that was in my grade 5 class! I want to show him a picture for verification...
Too bad many people are afraid to volunteer. If you keep an open-mind, you will be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams. You just have to keep the "nose to the grindstone", and not expect it to come right away - it will come to you... I guess that ties in the act of faith - a practical application perhaps... I've gotten to become close friends with Earl Williams and his family. I'm certain a lot about learning about a person is when working with them. We had lots of time to do that when working on the computer lab.
Also, although I thought I was pretty handy, when you learn to listen, you can learn so much from professionals, or people with more experience. I had always thought that I could volunteer with "Habitat for Humanity" to learn more building skills. Although this is still a great endeavor, I only need to look to Westminster to gain many of those skills! Again, it came to me in time...
Saturday August 28th, 2010
Wow, first door urethaned... I feel as if I could cry for joy! (I feel a major milestone has been achieved). Showed various church members that were present for "running club" or "clothing sale"...
Encouraged with look of urethaned door, decided to return to church at 12:30 pm to take a picture and post to WIKI...
Murray
Wednesday September 1st, 2010
Tom Smith dropped by in the morning, and asked what he could do, I thought that was very nice...
I showed him that he could start sanding door #2...
Finished Door #3 tonight. Trying to match bottom (weathered) portion of door with top was really a task - it didn't give up without a struggle that is for certain...
Thursday September 2nd, 2010
Decided to resume sanding for door #2 this afternoon, but it started to rain. That's OK, I had run out of sand-paper anyways...
Murray
Friday September 3rd, 2010
Decided to sand in the evening since sun did come out in the late afternoon.
Interesting that days can go by, and practically "invisible" to people and traffic on Broadway, then today three events in short segments:
- The Viponds (sp?) walked by and took a look at the doors.
- Female motorist stopped to take pictures of church.
- Person came up to ask if we needed restoration work at top of church (gave card and said church was beautiful).
Sometimes I get a honk from a car, but have no clue who it is..
I am still "chipping away at it...". Hope that the weather is consistently nice this September...
Murray
Sunday September 5th, 2010
Had several congregation members comment on the church doors... that was nice.
Including a compliment and also asking "I guess you get people offering advice", which I appreciated, since they would appreciate that I don't need advice from experts, but people to help out! :) Easy to give advice when looking and not participating... I'm guessing that's the real meaning of the saying "Everyone's an expert"... ;)
I will see if the weather clears up this Monday (tomorrow) to try working on the door in the evening...
Murray
Sunday September 12th, 2010
A solid group of congregation members were looking and commenting among themselves regarding the doors. They didn't notice I was there and it made me happy people are taking notice and realizing this improves the look of the church... It was early, and both doors were closed which I guess made them pause, and take notice and discuss...
:)
Murray
Sunday September 26th, 2010
This "Refinishing the Church Doors" project was mentioned in church meeting. I didn't expect that, but cool!
What I believe was more important was the "tie-in" to use of WIKIs (a modern tool to help solve modern and complex problems). As long as this tool is used within proper "rules" (I could see certain areas overseen by facilitators, etc) then this tool should be powerful for this church.
Friday October 1st, 2010
Finished the fourth and final door! Hard to imagine that I started near the beginning of August. It took nearly the entire month of September to complete the fourth door due to the weather, scheduling, wedding bookings, etc... The latch on the fourth door is not working correctly, so I filled out a Property report (for the first time) to have that repaired...
The only task remaining is to finish sanding the refinishing the wooden strips (which are in my garage, and can be completed any time before it started to get cold.
Murray
Saturday October 2nd, 2010
I completed the project. I sanded the wooden strips in my garage last night, and urethane them this afternoon. The wooden strips give the door a more "complete" look. I have asked Brian H (and family) to take pictures of the doors, so I can post on the WIKI for information/historical purposes. There are some metal screws holding the wooden strips, but they can easily be replaced with brass screws in the not-to-distant future...
QED...
This is Murray Saul saying "Over and Out..."
