Living Word Lutheran

In The Beginning... Living Word Lutheran Church was formed in January 2004 by a merger of New Life Lutheran Church of Spicer, MN and Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in New London, MN. In January 2005, Living Word was moved to the current home in Spicer, the former Prairie Meadows building with plans to begin looking at building a new church home. The building project "So That The World May Know!" began in the spring of 2007 with fundraising pledges from congregation members. The steps needed to begin construction were outlined and in the fall of 2007 the congregation drafted wish lists of features for the new building. The Building Committee was formed in the spring of 2008. Sunday, April 1st, 2012 After many years of planning, fundraising, and prayer... A special voter’s assembly at Living Word Lutheran Church gave approval to a plan to begin building a church at our land near New London. The plans and information can be viewed below Now we can start to get all the applications and permits and sign contracts with our contractors! Week of May 14th, 2012 Everything is in process of getting ready to begin our new building at the church site. Permits and applications are being filed and processed so that we can get ready to build! The new approach off the highway has been build and the building site has been staked to begin excavation. Sunday, May 20th, 2012 Our official groundbreaking ceremony at the building site. Here are some photos... Week of May 21st, 2012 Things are really getting started. Should be digging and pouring the foundations soon. May 23rd through 25th 2012 Lots of earth getting moved... May 30th, 2012 Footings were poured and block laid for the foundation today. June 2nd, 2012 Plumbing rough-ins are done and are digging trenches for in-floor heat dusts. Thanks to Brent, Lance, and Carson for help with the digging! June 6th, 2012 Progress is going smoothly. Darryl Sanderson of Riverview Refrigeration completed the heat-duct rough-in. The duct work will be covered by the cement slab (floor) which could be poured later this week. June 15th, 2012 The floor is poured! Joe Caskey Masonry and New London Concrete providing the manpower and materials for the church floor! June 19th, 2012 The walls are going up. The SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels) arrived last Thursday. They look like Giant Vanilla Oreos - thick white foam sandwiched between two OSB boards. The guys from Oak Ridge Construction putting up our SIP walls. June 20th, 2012 The walls are up! Several views of the church building walls. Praise God for the couple-day delay that caused to the walls to be put up after, not before, Sunday's storm. If you have a chance, take a drive out to the building site and walk around inside the church. June 21st, 2012 Ready for the roof... The roof trusses were delivered today (If you look closely you can see them in the distance, stacked near the church in the photo of the sign). Oak Ridge Construction will be setting the trusses on the walls on Monday (weather permitting). Plans are for our volunteers to begin installing the metal roofing late afternoon and evening next Wednesday (June 27). Send an email to pastor@livingwordlutheran.net if you can help us with this. June 25th & 26th, 2012 Roof is almost finished... The guys from Oak Ridge Construction set the roof trusses in place (with help from a crane - not pictured) and have nearly finished the putting up the sheathing boards late today or tomorrow. Praise God for more good construction weather! The next step is for volunteers to begin putting on the "tar paper" and metal roofing. June 27th, 2012 We start work on the roof... Most of the contractor work on the building is completed. Today Living Word members and friends began work on the roof June 28th, 2012 We have electricity and water... Workers from Thein Well began drilling the well. The guys from Electrical Plus have the transformer installed and electricity into the building June 30th, 2012 The north roof is finished... On Saturday Jason Miller, Vern Samuelson, Bryson Wachter, Brent Sawatzky, Pastor Dave and Kevin Welsh put the metal roofing on the north side of the building. You can't tell it from the photos, but the color is a Charcoal Gray July 11th, 2012 The roof is finished and the inside walls are being built. Our volunteers finished putting the steel roofing on the south roof this past Saturday. More volunteers are putting up interior walls on the east end of the building tonight. Most of the black dirt for the lawn has been filled in around the building July 26th, 2012 Lots going on in the last 2 weeks... • Interior walls have been completed • Ceiling has drywall has been hung • Aprons have been poured in front of each entrance • Windows have been installed August 9th, 2012 Painting & Siding... Our volunteer paint crew began work on the ceiling this evening. Shown here are Phil Iverson, Larry Hultgren, Jamie Iverson, Gracie Geer and Pastor David. Several more people came to help after these pictures were taken, and the crew was able to finish the first coat on the ceiling in the big room! In the last couple of pictures Jason Miller and Fred Asche are shown putting the siding on the north side of the building September 6th, 2012 Moving Day! Finally, time to move everything from the Prairie Woods building to our new home! First Worship At Our New Building Sunday, September 9th, 2012 Various groups brought up appropriate worship furnishings into the service as we dedicated them to our use in our new location. Elders Brought in the altar (on rollers) Acolyte kids Brought in the candles Altar guild Brought in the paraments Moms/kids Brought in hymnals/song books Musicians Brought in the instruments Pastor Brought in the Bible Trustee Brought in Lectern Ushers Brought in the Offering Plates.. LWML Brought in the pew Bibles Saturday, October 14th, 2012 Open House at our new home... A quick look around... Watch the slideshow of the building process... Official Dedication was held on Sunday, October 28th, 2012. If you were unable to attend, we have a video of the dedication for viewing online.

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