New Out of Old

Peter was really encouraged when he last visited Gembrook. The stairs and veranda he spent a total of ten days working on had been painted by the Gembrook Working Group over the weekend. It has been such a good result from how it was at the start of last December till now at the end of January. The old stairs were completely dismantled, as was all the railings and banisters. The veranda decking was partly removed and the bearers were left (sort of) hanging off the wall for a time. A lot of good timber was reused. It is moot point as to whether it should have been totally demolished or not. Keeping some of it helped to maintain some of the building's history, and since the decking 'section width' was now not commercially available it did seem better not to disturb it and work around it if possible. The amount of serendipity involved in the project gave the impression that God had a keen interest as well.