Meeting with Our City Reps

On Tuesday, April 12, Ricky, Pam, and Bobby met with the Agency Representatives from the City of Chattanooga, Vanessa Jackson and Anthony Sammons. Vanessa and Tony are World Changers veterans, having worked with the Chattanooga project for years. They are very committed to the purpose of World Changers and work hard to make the project a success. Vanessa has gathered and organized a list of candidates for both our weeks in July. Tony is busy working out other details such as vendors, dumpsters, and many other important components. Soon Ricky will begin visiting homeowners and assessing houses in order to select the 2011 project sites. Both Vanessa and Tony will join us for the Pre-Project on the 29th, so many of you will be able to meet them at that time.

Pre-Project Is Coming! Pre-Project Is Coming!

We invite you to come to Chattanooga for our Pre-Project on Friday, April 29th. We hope to give you lots of information, answer many questions, and give you a little taste of the beauty of Spring in Chattanooga! Here is our tentative schedule for the day:

• 12:00 noon -- Meet at Brainerd Baptist Church for lunch and informational meeting
• 2:00 -- Tour our lodging facilities
• 3:00 -- Tour tentative worksites
• 4:30 -- Return to church for question/answer time
• 5:30 -- Dinner downtown
• 7:00 -- Head home or stay the night and enjoy Chattanooga!

Please make your plans to come join us for this awesome time together. Since we hope to provide your lunch, it is important to get a count of who will be attending. Please email me at pamrector@hotmail.com as soon as possible, telling me yay or nay. I will be posting the agenda next week, so please email me any areas you particularly want discussed.

You can spend as little or as much as you would like on the trip. There are inexpensive $50+ rooms available in the Hamilton Place area (Microtel, LaQuinta) and in East Ridge (Day's Inn), both of which are just a few minutes away from Brainerd Baptist Church. If you would like to stay downtown, prices will be higher but so will be the fun and atmosphere. Since we hope to provide lunch, your dinner will be your only meal expense.

I look forward to hearing from you soon! Have a blessed day!

Welcome World Changers!

Your Chattanooga World Changers leadership team welcomes you to our blog and to Chattanooga! The blog will be updated often, and posts will be added that will:

• Introduce you to all the leadership team
• Give you information about the upcoming pre-project scheduled for April 29th here in Chattanooga
• Provide you details about preparing your group for the upcoming project
• Share pictures of sample work sites, using last year's project pics, as well as pictures of our housing site
• Post packing lists, as well as information about what do expect and where to go in Chattanooga
• Give you the latest updates from World Changers and NAMB

Please save this blog as a favorite, and check it weekly. We hope to update it each Sunday or Monday. Also share it with students and parents, since much of what is posted will also be helpful and interesting to them.

We are THRILLED to welcome you to Chattanooga, and we hope most of you will be able to come in for the pre-project! We will meet for lunch, then tour Brainerd Baptist and work sites, have an organizational/informative meeting, and wrap up the day with dinner together. We think you will LOVE our city, our project, our people, and our ministry!

Please continue to pray for this project and for your students and chaperones, as well as for the people in Chattanooga whose lives you will change. May God bless you richly!