Tentitve List of Major Projects:

1. Paint all metal bunks and bunk rails in each of the numbered cabins.
2. Paint benches for each cabin; be sure each cabin has at least five short benches.
3. Finish painting of the Art Building. 
4. Add one block high lip around the slab for the dumpster behind the kitchen. 
5. Install hand-washing stations on the outside of Art building, Nature Building, and HITW area.
6. Repair Gatlin Creek Marina area.  Pilings, dock, and walkways.
7. Repair/paint 100 metal folding chairs.
8. Service and repair all equipment.  Power washers, generators, pumps, table saws, hand tools, chainsaws, mowers, vehicles and tractor.
9. Complete the capping of the white pvc poles around road and parking areas. 
10. Repaint the fuel storage tanks in the maintenance yard area.  Gas, diesel, and kerosene also old oil disposal tank.
11. Replace cabinets in the Fellowship Hall for worship material storage.   Create a service cabinet and sink for support of snack service in the Fellowship Hall area
12. Re-build the boat gas docks, fuel station, and boat service area.
13. Complete and update major landscaping around each named cabin, the dining hall, CLC, entry sign areas, Director’s House area, Health Center and the fellowship hall.
14. Repair the pier foot lighting and complete it toward the end of the pier.  Provide lower deck lighting at end of the pier. Repair large flood lights at end of the pier.
15. Challenge course repair and new element construction.  Repair all existing elements and construct three new elements.
16. Do the Major renovation/upgrades to Cabin  3
17. Install permanent stage lighting for Vesper Dale.
18. Finish the steps and some railing work for the deck in Cabin 1-4 area
19. Drain, clean, repair the pool bottom, docks and surrounding area.
20. Finish the re-do of the Chapel to establish a more permanent worship setting.
21. Plant winter grass in area around fellowship hall and parking area.
22. Construct new camping equipment storage area and food pack-out building behind dining hall.
23. Clear additional area around “tracking station” to allow two picnic tables and new teaching area with tarp.
24. Replace/repair shutter clips and repair shutters on cabins 5, 6, and 7.

Projects That Have Been Completed:

1. Create lighted pathway to LIT cabin.
2. Paint the front porch, front doors, and Health Center Bath Rooms.
3. Replace five window units in the Fellowship Hall
4. Install and set-up equipment for “presentation hall”  inside Fellowship Hall.
5. Install Heat/AC for Fellowship Hall
6.  Interior staining with latex poly urethane of the interior room wall in the Small, Holland, and Lee Cabins.
7. Exterior painting of the Small, Holland, and Lee cabins.  All trim and exterior surfaces.
8. Continue to work for  a permanent solution for drainage issues around the Fellowship Hall
9. Paint floors  of cabins  5, 6 and 7.
10. Form and pour sidewalks in the named cabin area.
11. Paint exterior of Director’s House.
12. Treat trail and challenge course area for removal of poison ivy.

For More Information On How To Help:

Please contact John Farmer, Center Director

john@donleecenter.org

(800) 535-5475

Or Melissa Cooper, Retreats Ministries Coordinator

melissa@donleecenter.org

(800)535-5475

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