Let's try again....

Pictures of the new school.

A large lobby with elevators! This is the administration floor.

A very large classroom! (Can you imagine? They're all the same size! We'll be so spoiled.)

Teacher offices!

This is my favorite part. Skylights! You can see there are three upstairs floors. They are all the same and will be used for elementary and high school. The kindergarten will be below the main floor. The whole thing is on a hill, though, so even the basement has windows.

There are a few of these stepped auditorium-like rooms. We don't even know what to do with them all.

Large, sunlit hallways!

These very large rooms will be used for lunch rooms, libraries, and such.

The gym! Yes!!!! A gym!

This is actually the roof of the gym. It will be used as a play area. We're going to put up a high fence all the way around it and put basketball hoops and soccer goals and the like. It's a lot bigger than it looks. It's also on the same level as the basement/kindergarten, so you can get an idea of how it's all laid out. Underneath the gym is a pretty large room we're going to use as a student center with ping-pong and foosball, and we're going to make it like a lounge to use for bible studies, etc.

Walking from the school down to the gym.

So, if you're not impressed yet, let me give you an idea of what we're coming from here. This is our high school. We've been in this building for at least 15 years. (It's an old apartment building.)

Our grand lobby.

And very large stair well.

We have two other buildings much like this one for the jr. high and elementary. The kindergarten is on the bottom level of another apartment building next door.

The really, really amazing part of all this is, once we get moved, the rent will actually be less because of the part of town we live in. It will be a better neighborhood, too.

How to pray: The checkpoint is now situated right in front of our new school. Pray that it will be moved. There is no reason why they can't move it. It's not permanent, and the (infamous) wall is now complete, so they should be moving the checkpoint back to it. This will make life so much better for us and our students.

Also, we need about 100,000 dollars to get the school ready to open the doors. God's got us this far. I'm sure he has a plan for the next step.

Pray for me, personally: I will also need to be raising my support this summer. I've never done this before, so I need a lot of help. Pray that God guides me to the right people/right places.