Update on the new PC Facility

The boys have been hard at work this week on the new building. We have mostly been painting and eating! We were blessed to get two hitting nets and some outdoor carpet for the hitting area. When Jeff and myself and the boys were unloading the nets we were surprised to find two baby Copperhead snakes inside! You just never know what you'll get when your bargin shopping. The nets are perfect! We are slowing getting things done and we will keep you posted with new pictures and videos. It's very exciting that the boys are riding their bikes and walking over already, when it's basically just an empty building! The just walk around and look so proud saying, "This place is going to be so much fun!"

Help Power Cross fill the walls...

About four years ago, God laid a vision on Jeff's heart that would reach out to the lives of the young men in our community. And for the past four years our home has become the second home to almost 90 boys every week. We have prayed and searched for a building or land to build a facility for about 2 years. It's been kind of like being stuck on the runway on an airplane. God loaded us up with all the passengers, and we've just been waiting for the runway to open up. We've been waiting with the boys for over three years to have a place they can really take off. Today I am so very happy to tell you that Power Cross now has a temporary facility! As you'll be able to see by the video, it's not pretty, but we'll take it! We were blessed to find a 7,000 square foot warehouse that was available right in the downtown area where many of the boys live. We are within walking or bike riding distance to about 90% of the kids we work with. Although we won't be able to have the indoor basketball court as we had hoped, at least not for the moment, we will be able to do a lot of other activities in the buildings. We are working today on hanging the indoor batting cages, and other baseball training items. We hope to have the indoor speed and agility training center set up within the next couple of weeks. We will have almost 3,000 square feet for just the Bible study, tutoring, eating, and recreation area. The Middle/High School boys are excited! They got to help us clean yesterday, and we'll be painting and revamping for about the next week before it's ready to go. The Elementary kids will get to see the new facility on Tuesday. We were not able to purchase the building right now, so we are just leasing with the hope that we don't get kicked out for a while! We know God will help provide the funding for our permanent facility in His time. But in the meantime we need some help filling the walls of the temporary facility. Below is a list of the items that we will be in need of. It's a pretty big list! If you can help personally or have a connection on getting any of the items listed please call Coach Jeff today (704)902-1653. We can wait on some of the items but the majority of them we need to try and get pretty quickly. Along with the excitement and wonderful benefits of having a Power Cross facility come the reality of paying for it. As soon as our lease was signed yesterday we increased our expenses by about $2300.00 a month. Please remember Power Cross in your prayers! We are going to need a lot of monthly support to keep this ministry running full speed. Thanks so much for the prayers over the past three years. The prayer that has been number one for many of us was finding a facility. The Bible tells us "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." Philippians 4:6. God has always provided everything this ministry has needed and we have great faith He will continue to do so! Thank you for your prayers!


Power Cross Facility Needs:
Paint and paint supplies
Cleaning Supplies in general
4 Sectional Couches
2 Big Screen Televisions
2 Television Stands
2 Ovens
2 Refrigerators
Double Sink
Microwave
Ice Machine
Folding Tables
Worship Style Seating Chairs
Shelving (lot of shelving for food, pantry items, sporting goods, books, and clothing)
4 Desktop Computers
Bike Rack (to park bikes)
2 Roll-away Basketball Goals
2 Baseball Cage Nets
2 Pitching Mounds
1 Pitching Machine
Baseballs, Basketballs, Footballs
A Stage
Digital Projector and large Screen
Sound Equipment
Rugs
Filing Cabinets
2 Ping Pong Tables
2 Desks/Office Furniture
Commercial Pots and Baking Pans

Have a wonderful weekend! We'll be uploading pictures of the progress as the building comes along!

God Bless,
Jeff, Nat, TJ, and the PC Boys

Reservations please...

It's a normal Friday night at our house. We have pretty much the entire baseball team spending the night in order to make sure they actually arrive for the game tomorrow. Pun's back for another few days to round out the bunch. We had a couple of funny quotes today I thought I'd share with you for the weekend. Both Power Cross baseball teams are in action this weekend, we'll give you an update on Monday.

Funny Quote #1:
This afternoon Jeff and I were running errands when Pun called. Pun is eight years old, he's a regular at our half. He's been staying with us about two weeks out of the month while his mom is battleing Sickle Cell Anemia. The part that's funny about this is that Pun called Coach Jeff when he got home from school to ask what his mom's cell phone number was. So being your average eight year old in Power Cross it's much more important to have Coach Jeff's cell phone memorized that your own mom's! Actually he told me tonight that Coach Jeff's number was the only one he memorized, because it was the only one he needed.

Funny Quote #2:
This evening we were at the Statesville High School baseball game with the Power Cross team. Rayshawn called to see if he could spend the night and we had to tell him, there was to many kids already for tonight. Maybe he could go ahead and make a reservation for tomorrow. So T.J. made the comment that, "Our house was like a hotel, only we don't get paid." I second that only we don't have a maid either!

God Bless you this weekend!

Coach Jeff & Nat