A display of Regent library building construction photos, in conjunction with the library 25th anniversary, displayed in the library foyer, September 2, 2008 -
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Architect's model of proposed CBN University library building, about 1981.
Dr. Robertson, in a September 1984 chapel message:
"... I was pretty much plum out of building. I didn't want to build anymore right then and we waited a year or two, and the Lord spoke to me, 'Why are you so timid? . . . why won't you complete what I've told you to do?'. . . we had this plan for this library building and God said, 'I want you to get on with this thing.'"
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"All We Had Was a Pile of Sand"
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Dr. Robertson:
"And so we got our regents here and all we had where you are now standing was a pile of sand. We had enough money to pay for the sand, to build up in a big pile, so we had an outline of the building. The sand was about three feet in the air and that's all we had." |
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Pat Robertson prays at ground breaking for library building, June 7, 1982. (Model in background to right.)
Dr. Robertson:
"And our regents came and we climbed up this mound of sand and we held hands and began to seek the word of God that this building would come to pass according to the word of the Lord." |
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Little by little the vision begins to take shape in the sand. |
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Dr. Robertson:
"And God began to supply the need. And there wasn't one month that came by that we didn't have enough money to pay for this thing..." |
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A second-floor view of the campus from the steel and concrete frame of the library .
"Only when you attempt the impossible do you test the resources of God. To even dare to attempt building a great research library would seem unthinkable but for the promise that 'My God will supply all that you need from His glorious resources in Christ Jesus.'"
-- Lois Lehman, Dir. of Libraries, who played a major role in planning and establishing the new library, quoting Philippians 4:19.
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One steel girder at a time, the new building rises out of the sand.
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Dr. Robertson:
"Every single month, when a bill would come due, we would have enough money to pay for it." |
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A central atrium with huge skylight will bring natural light to the second and third floors. |
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Bricklayers construct one of the many arches. |
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Library interior shell under atrium sky light. |
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Outside and in, the library is beginning to resemble what the planners envisioned. |
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Pat Stallings, former librarian, shares her memories of the construction:
"It was wonderful ... of course that we were going to get into a new building ... I remember walking all through this library when it was steel girders and ... concrete steps ... I remember Dean Lehman taking us through the building to see it ... And she would meet every Tuesday . with the architect. She worked ... tirelessly ... on it ... but we enjoyed it terrifically knowing we were going to get into it." |
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Students enjoy elegant finished lobby. |
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A miracle building rises from a pile of sand
Dr. Robertson:
"But first of all, before there was a building, there was God. And there was God's mind which conceived of a master plan for a university here and then He spoke it to me to bring it to pass." |
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"Celebration of Light" Library dedication event, October 13, 1984
Dr. Robertson:
"... we finished this thing totally debt free, totally paid for, and in time for you all to come and have some place to go to school and it would enable us to take the present enrollment and double it or more than double it." |
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From a pile of sand to a pillar of light and learning - the Regent library building - a magnificent testimony to the faithfulness
of our God
Dr. Robertson:
"You see all you need to have in life is God and the Word of God. His concept, that's all you need. A word from the Lord is all that is needed. . . .You say, 'wow, look at this.' But it is so simple when God does it. It is not complicated." |
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