Our regularly scheduled meeting with the Israeli law firm was cancelled in September due to vacation time there. We did meet with them as scheduled on October 18th. The next major step in the Museum project is raising the $1,000,000 one-time payment for the 25-year lease.
We have received a pledge of $100,000 if we can raise the remainder of the funds. This is our priority for this project at the moment. Nothing else will move forward until this step is accomplished.
We are trying to lease space in the Yigal Allon Center; however, the museum has a new CEO. We need to introduce ourselves and our project, but the manager will need time to get settled into his new position. Gabriel Rymberg and our attorney plan to contact him soon to express our desire to work with them. We believe our Center for Unity projects will add value and benefit the existing museum business. We are hoping to be allowed access to the part of the facility we are planning to lease so that our design company, Diskin, can get measurements and perhaps blueprints to begin our work. The lease will not be secured, and we will not invest in any design work until the financial support for this project is obtained from the Urantia community.
We asked the attorney for additional information that can be used to promote the project to our potential donors. As far as a timeline for completion, the attorney explained that once the lease is paid, work can begin immediately. They project that the work could be completed in one year’s time.
He also acknowledged that we are entering the second phase of this project where the design concepts and teams are brought together. The third or next phase of this project he called the “Go/No Go” where the investors decide whether this is a project worth supporting or not.
Thus, if we raise the funds, the project is a “Go.” If not, then it is a “No Go.” What happens next is up to those who want to see a Jesus Museum in Israel based on The Urantia Book.
