WELCOME CHURCH GROUPS!

Chattanooga World Changers will be the home of eighteen church groups from eleven different states during the week of July 25 through 30. Wow! Here is a list of the churches and group leaders, so you can look them up and also begin praying for each group.

• Agape Baptist Church of Trussville, Alabama -- 2 participants -- Kevin Small, group leader
• Antioch Baptist Church of Tallapoosa, Georgia -- 15 participants -- Jennifer King, group leader
• Baptist Chapel of Godwin, North Carolina -- 8 participants -- Erika Wrench, group leader
• Boone Trail Baptist Church of Johnson City, Tennessee -- 40 participants -- Ryan Epps, group leader
• Chiquola Baptist Church of Honea Path, South Carolina -- 9 participants -- Nick Smith, group leader
• Comer First Baptist Church of Comer, Georgia -- 11 participants -- Marty Jacobs, group leader
• Crossroads Baptist Church of Spartanburg, South Carolina -- 25 participants -- Michael Evans, group leader
• Denmark First Baptist Church of Bamberg, South Carolina -- 15 participants -- Beth Pruett, group leader
• First Baptist Church of Matthews, North Carolina -- 45 participants -- Kasey Carter, group leader
• First Baptist Church of Ruston, Louisiana -- 40 participants -- Josh Sanderson, group leader
• First Baptist Church of Highland Heights, Alexandria, Kentucky -- 19 participants -- Nick Heiss, group leader
• First Baptist Church of St. John, St. Louis, Missouri -- 13 participants -- Gail Peistrup, group leader
• Franklin Baptist Church of Franklin, Illinois -- 4 participants -- Darin Peterson, group leader
• Mineral Springs Baptist Church of Vinion, Virginia -- 30 participants -- Micah Young, group leader
• Oakhurst Baptist Church of Asheboro, North Carolina -- 9 participants -- Duncan Hunter, group leader
• Stanley First Baptist Church of Stanley, North Carolina -- 7 participants -- Billy Shaw, group leader
• United Baptist Church of Winston-Salem, North Carolina -- 13 participants -- Hope Clapp, acting group leader
• Vandola Baptist Church of Danville, Virginia -- 14 participants -- Cindy Bortz, group leader

OUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME!

The lodging facility for Chattanooga World Changers is Brainerd Baptist Church. It is located at 300 Brookfield Drive, Chattanooga 37411.  Brainerd has hosted WC crews for years, and they are masters at it. The church is not new is a very nice, well-maintained facility. You will register at the front porch of the church, then you will unload at the sliding glass door entrance on the side.

Boys will be rooming on the first floor in preschool classrooms, and girls will be rooming on the third floor in classrooms. The second floor houses the church offices, so it is off-limits.   Here is a sample classroom where the boys will be staying, but of course, the furniture will all be pushed into a corner or into the hall.  There will be two restrooms on the both floors for your use, and all showers will be taken outside in Disaster Relief shower trailers -- two for boys and two for girls.

We will gather for our delicious meals in the fellowship hall, located under the sanctuary, just steps away from the rooming quarters. Our meals will be provided by the church's disaster relief team who are masters at preparing and serving delicious meals quickly and efficiently!

Our worship services will be held in the large church sanctuary. 

You will find Brainerd Baptist Church to be a fabulous facility for your week in Chattanooga! The space is roomy, the people are helpful, and the location is central. Just wait!

THE WORLD CHANGERS SCHEDULE

OUR WEEK'S SCHEDULE

You will hit the ground running when you arrive in Chattanooga on Monday, July 25th! We have an action-packed schedule, so it is important that all leaders, chaperones, and participants are VERY familiar with it -- with what happens each day, each afternoon, each evening. Please call Pam if you have any questions!

MEET YOUR LEADERSHIP TEAM!

In just a few weeks, you will be meeting your leadership team in person, but here are some pics and info about us that hopefully will help you know our lifes and our hearts now!

Our Speaker, Joey Bentley

Joey is the youth pastor at First Baptist Church Satuma (outside of Mobile, AL). He LOVES youth ministry and World Changers! He has been involved in ten WC projects, and last year served as speaker at the Chicago project (he has some stories about that one!). Joey has a beautiful wife and 18-month-old daughter, and he is an avid sports fan -- Red Sox, Sooners, and Cowboys (he's from Oklahoma, but we like him anyway!). He is VERY excited about coming to Chattanooga and meeting you guys.

Our National Missionaries, Bill and Modena Kagay

We are truly blessed to have Bill and Modena as the national missionaries assigned to our project. They actually live in Chattanooga most of the year, and they have been committed to World Changers since its very beginning. They are the hardest workers Ricky and I have ever known! Before Bill and Modena "officially" worked with NAMB, they were WC volunteers just like you! They will be flying from the Philadelphia project to visit our project on July 28 and 29.

Our Associational Coordinator, Bobby Boutwell

Bobby Boutwell is our associational coordinator extraordinaire! He is the guy who provides delicious lunches for the work sites and who coordinates our Wednesday night block party. Bobby took his first group to World Changers in 1994 and has since taken groups to nine others all over the U.S. and Canada. He has been involved in Chattanooga projects since 2003 and is the project coordinator for the first week of the Chattanooga project. Bobby is married and has three incredible children (all of whom help him work on WC!). In his time away from World Changers, Bobby is Worship Minister of First Baptist Church Soddy Daisy, a suburb of Chattanooga.

Our Project Coordinator and Construction Coordinators, Pam and Ricky Rector

Pam and Ricky have been involved in World Changers in several capacities for twelve years from group leaders to crew chief/encourager to coordinators. Teaming up for the first time, both have experience in their roles, Pam as PC in Buffalo and Ricky as CC three years in Chattanooga. They have two married children who were both World Changers and a new week-old granddaughter whom they feel sure will become a World Changer one day! They are both retired, Pam from teaching and Ricky from the Tennessee Valley Authority, and they LOVE working with World Changers. Ricky and Pam cannot WAIT to meet you all!