June 2007 Baptist Builder's Club Newsletter

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hank you for sharing the burden of this ministry. It has been a busy and blessed first ten months in my role with Providing financial help to new Baptist Builders Club.

Your support is greatly needed. or struggling churches Applications keep coming in, but the funds are not there to fulfill all the needs. On behalf of the board of administrators, I tell you with gladness that every time we review an application, we know that God will provide for the needs. Each and every month it is tough to look at the numbers and know that regardless of what the paper says, the money will come as the need is there. But I also know that it is okay to ask for help. I want to do that today. We need more donors and churches to share this burden.

I have set a goal that I know is attainable for the remainder of 2007 and 2008. We would like to be able to help nine sister churches in the U.S.A. each year—three in each BBC • USA category.

That means: 3 Start Up church plants 3 Build Up church projects 3 Help Up emergency projects (i.e., floods, fires) We need to raise over $100,000 for the rest of this year, and we need your help. In addition to providing funds for each building project, we also provide literature for the church and training for its leadership.

Check out www.baptistbuildersclub.org to read stories of churches that have received help from BBC • USA. God bless you for your support.

Meet the administrators Our existing Baptist Builders Club administrators are:

Michael Nolan – Director, BBC • USA

Please join me in welcoming two new administrators:

Ed Fuller serves as the state representative for the Wisconsin Association of Regular Baptist Churches with his wife, Diane. BBC • USA is currently in the process of starting a new Baptist church in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

Dan Simmons has been in the ministry for twentyseven years and currently pastors New Community Baptist Church in Strongsville, Ohio. He has planted two churches bi-vocationally in the last six years along with his wife, Rebecca, and their two children.

Dr. Buzz Fanion is the pastor of Cypress Pointe Baptist Church in Cypress, Texas. He is also the president and founder of Cypress Point Bible Institute. Buzz and his wife, Lynn, are passionate about serving God and helping struggling churches and church plants.

Dan Mead is the pastor of First Baptist Church in Faribault, Minnesota. He, along with his wife, Alice, has been serving there since 1988.

The administrators attend two meetings a year, review applications, and assist in making careful and prayerful decisions regarding grant and loan requests.

Also, join me in praising God for our brother and BBC • USA administrator who just transitioned off the board, Darrell Beddoe. He served BBC • USA with a prayerful heart and a joyous spirit. He is now becoming more involved with church planting and continues to serve as the Baptist Fellowship Northwest regional pastor and representative in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Thanks for serving, Brother Beddoe.

2006 Grants and Loans

Church San Mateo Baptist Jacksonville, Florida International Community Baptist Elyria, Ohio Bible Baptist Carterville, Illinois First Baptist Kiel, Wisconsin

Total

Grant

Loan

$7,500 $10,000

Total $7,500

$5,000

$15,000

$7,500

$7,500

$10,000

$10,000

$35,0 0 0

$5,0 0 0

$40,0 0 0

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Start Up

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he Emergency Help Up fund is designed to give immediate assistance to our GARBC churches that face natural disasters such as fires, tornadoes, floods, and hurricanes.

he Baptist Builders Club • USA Start Up Fund grants churches, mission agencies, and state organizations up to $15,000 for churchplanting efforts.

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wo are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor” (Ecclesiastes 4:9).

BBC • USA exists because Regular Baptist churches want to Build Up their sister churches. That is what a fellowship is all about.

Help Up Spotlight

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urricane Wilma arrived in Florida on Monday, October 24, 2005. The wind began to scream from the southeast, gusting at times close to 100 mph. The eye of the storm passed over, and much stronger winds began to blow from the northwest. Pastor Jeff Snyder of Broadview Baptist Church, North Lauderdale, received a call from a neighbor who lived across from the church, saying, “I’m watching your roof blow off of the church! There it goes!”

Later that afternoon after the storm had passed, Pastor Snyder and the church family gathered to clean up the best they could and tried to stop further damage. Pastor Snyder then received a call from Baptist Builders Club • USA offering assistance to help put things back together. Broadview Baptist was assured that this ministry of the GARBC would stand with them.

Sometime later, Broadview Baptist received a call from one

of its missionaries at Baptist Mid-Missions, who also offered financial assistance to help the church rebuild. The missionary echoed a statement Pastor Snyder had heard before: “You are not alone; we will stand with you.”

The damaged roof at Broadview Baptist has since been replaced, classrooms and the foyer have been rebuilt, and water damage in the auditorium is in the process of being repaired. God’s provision, through His people and agencies like Baptist Builders Club • USA and Baptist Mid-Missions, has allowed all this help to be carried out debt free. Pastor Jeff Snyder said, “Hurricane Wilma could have forced Broadview Baptist to close its doors forever. Instead, God provided us with restored facilities. God confirmed that He still wants Broadview Baptist Church to minister in this community. Truly, together we can accomplish more. To God be glory for the great things He has done. Thank You, Lord.”

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