Director’s Desk

Thanks to all the CLAIM teams who have impacted the world for Christ since our last Newsletter. They have worked on projects in: Puerto Rico, Germany, Romania and Japan. Thanks to Bill Ferguson, Mark Gage and Joe Leleaux, our team leaders, for their outstanding service. Also I want to thank Buddy Fuller for helping to oversee the project in Japan. More exciting opportunities await each of you that desire to make a difference in this world for the cause of Christ.

Grace Baptist Church-Grafenwoehr, Germany

Joe Leleaux led a team, along with team leader, Mark Gage, to assist Missionary Chuck Sligh with a project. A team of five workers set 2,400 square feet of ceramic tile. This new sanctuary space will seat three times as many as the old location. They also moved a chain link fence. Pray for this good ministry.

Maranatha Baptist Church, Okinawa, Japan

The CLAIM team who worked on this project was assisted by several hard workers from the church. This team built a two story, three-room extension onto the Service Men’s Building.

Missionary Steve Nutt says, “Thanks for helping us with the building. We appreciate you all coming to Okinawa to help us. The mission apartment is finished and ready for Dr. Tom Farrell. Everyone here has prayed for the Revival and is so glad to have a place for him to stay.”

Volunteers Needed-Okinawa, Japan

Brother Joe Leleaux heads up a new building project for Missionary Dan Garner. The project will run over a period of months, February – May, 2008. Several teams are needed:

Team 1-General Construction
Team 2-Siding and Roofing
Team 3-Plumbing and Electrical
Team 4-Drywall and Painting
Team 5-Trim Out and Set Fixtures
Contact Joe Leleaux about this project.

Mexico Needs Our Help

Due to recent floods in the Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco, Dr. and Mrs. Armando Guzman make the following plea.

“If you would like to help with the relief operation, you may consider a one time offering to help these people who have been left without homes, clothing, food, water…well, …with nothing! What would you or I do if we were in their situation!

Dear Lord, please help them!”

If you would like to send a one time offering, we can see that it goes to help the people in the most need. Please send it through BIMI; earmark it for “Armando Guzman - flooding.” Below is the Address:
Baptist International Missions, Inc.
PO Box 9215
Chattanooga, TN 37412

Back to Great Falls, Montana

Brother Mark Gage returns to Great Falls in the summer, 2008. This CLAIM project will include: installing a new furnace, drywalling and painting the auditorium, laying new carpet, removing theater-style chairs and replacing them with stack chairs. They also plan to remove and replace tile in the kitchen and two bathrooms.

Missionary Wayne Voss estimates this project to cost $11,000. Please pray and help on this project.

Brother Voss wants to thank last summer’s team who worked hard on the basement. He also wants to thank Pastor J.D. Matlock and the Fellowship Baptist Church in Selmer, TN, for providing the funds to put on a new roof. Jay Matlock headed up the roofing team and did a first class job. THANKS!

Contact Mark Gage about this project.

England Here We Come

Recently European Director, Brant Holladay, put me in contact with a National Pastor, David Moore. He plans to build a new church building for Milton Baptist Church in September, 2008. Block layers, brick layers, plaster workers and all construction trades will be needed. This is our first building project request in England since I have been with CLAIM. Your help is needed.

Contact Carl Vonnoh about this project.

Urgent Need

Freedom Baptist Church, a military congregation in Guam, needs to raise $30,000 to buy land to build a church. They needed $65,000 and about $30,000 of that has been raised. They need a larger facility and buildings to rent are hard to find.

You may donate through PayPal online or send your contribution to Military Missions, Guam Building - Account 642, BIMI, PO Box 9215, Chattanooga, TN 37412.

Once property is purchased CLAIM will be involved in construction of a military church facility.

Katrina Rebuild

Over two years ago Hurricane Katrina devastated many areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. We are still assisting Baptist churches in this area to rebuild. Sometime around March 2008, Bible Baptist Church in Gulfport, Mississippi, will need your help in the following areas: drywall hangers, finishers, painters and carpenters (for doors and ceilings). Contact Carl Vonnoh about this project.

Togo Palms, Togo, West Africa

J.J. Alderman needs your help during the summer, 2009. He is constructing a youth camp in phases:

Phase 1-Kitchen and Dining Hall (initial chapel location)
Phase 2- Leadership Conference Center

Their highest priority is the kitchen and dining hall at the cost of $35,000(+/- 10%). It will seat 300 people. The construction will be concrete with a Spanish tile roof. Pray with them about the need.

You may donate through PayPal online or send your contribution to Togo Palms - Account 1343, BIMI, PO Box 9215, Chattanooga, TN 37412.