Our Beginning

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This appears to be a great spot for God's work to take place.
A lone sign stuck out in the boonies. This picture was likely taken from Academy Blvd.
The sign reads, Future Site of ... Nazarene Bible College - Holy Bible: My Words Shall Not Pass Away
The site survey team getting things started.
Surveying the site.
More site surveying.
This may be the architect and the survey engineer going over some details.
Here are the faithful arriving for the ground breaking ceremony.
This picture was taken just before the start of the ground breaking ceremony and is perhaps the first official college meeting held onsite.
Waiting for the event to start.
Preparing for the ground breaking ceremony.
This are the shovels that will be used for the official grand breaking.
Worshiping during the ground breaking ceremony.
The ground breaking ceremony in progress.
This may be Dr. Williamson speaking.
There appears to be a good turnout with seventy or more in attendance.
This was the best picture we could find of them actually breaking ground.
Construction company trailers arrive on site.
The first erected building on the site was this tool shed.
The deep cuts begin.
Here they are grading the site which is very important for a future school of higher education.
The very early stages of ground preparation.
A landscaper hard at work.
This appears to be a picture of Leist's foundation preparation.
This is likely another shot of the foundation preparation for Leist.
This is likely Leist's foundations.
Preparing the way for Williamson and Fireside.
This appears to be the administration building's foundation.
Forms being placed for the basement concrete walls.
Timbers arrive on site that will be used for bracing walls.
The load from this ready-mix truck will be used for basement walls.
Here they are pouring the basement walls in the administration building.
Poured foundation walls start to take form.
The skeleton of the top of the administration building is being built in this shot.
Scaffolding was used while the rock facing was applied to the block walls.
Some walls and a roof on Leist.
This is a picture of Leist from about where the administration building now stands.
This is the administration building's corner retaining wall with Leist in the background.
Leist on the left and they are just starting to build Williamson on the right.
A shot of Leist, from the parking lot side, with its rock walls up and the roof being worked on.
Supports continuously hold the walls in place until the tie beams are connected.
Leist with the first walls of Williamson being put up.
This is Leist while still being shingled and Williams still without its roof.
Here is Leist in the foreground with more of Williamson's walls going up in the background.
Here are Williamson and Fireside with their walls up and Leist with its roof already on.
This is a great picture of the loading dock area during constructions of the Williamson building.