Calling All Crew Chiefs!

Since all World Changer participants, both students and adults, are placed on crews, filling the crew leadership roles is critical to a successful week of work.  Here are some important reasons to recruit crew chiefs soon!

• In Chattanooga, we try to keep our crews at 10-12 people, which means each church needs to provide one crew chief for every 10 people they bring. 
• Being a crew chief does not mean being a construction genius -- it just means that a person is willing to lead a crew! 
• At Chattanooga World Changers, we can use all levels of crew chief skills since we have all levels of projects, ranging from interior and exterior painting projects to building decks and handicap ramps.  This year LifeWay has eliminated work on roofs for all students below college level. 
• Ricky Rector, our Construction Coordinator has worked hard to gather an excellent support staff of supervisors and runners who can assist crew chiefs in the areas where they need help.
• Crew chiefs are charged only $50 instead of the regular $259!  They need to submit their applications soon so the billing will be correct.
• Applying is easy -- just go to www.world-changers.net and find Work With Us at the top or Volunteer Applications where both tabs take you to the link 2013 Construction Volunteer Applications; there you will complete the application on line in just a few minutes!

Being a crew chief is an unbelievably rewarding experience!  Apply now, and encourage other adults in your group to do the same!

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 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!

Picking Our Work Sites

On Thursday, April 25th, your leadership team met with the Agency Representatives from the City of Chattanooga, Vanessa Jackson and Anthony Sammons. We were also blessed to be joined by our own National World Changers Coordinators Bill and Modena Kagay.  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.  This week Eric and Ricky will begin visiting homeowners and assessing houses in order to select the 2013 project sites.

The homes being consider have a variety of improvement needs, from both interior and exterior painting to porch or deck repair to handicap ramp building.  In case you haven't already read or heard, LifeWay has decided that World Changers will no longer be doing roofs; since many states have OSHA guidelines that prohibit anyone under 18 to work on roofs, LifeWay felt that it would be best to make it a blanket policy.