Our Schedule at World Changers!

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!

MONDAY

12:00-2:00 PM         Registration
3:00 PM                  Welcome Celebration
4:00 PM                  Crew Chief meeting; Crew Encourager meeting
5:00 PM                  Project photo (wear WC tee shirt); divide into crews
5:30 PM                  Crew Chats; crew position assignments
6:15 PM                  Dinner
7:15 PM                  Position training stations
8:00 PM                  Worship/”Why We’re Here” Training
9:30 PM                  Church Group Devotions
10:00 PM                Free Time with Marketplace (Sales Table) & Missions Lounge open
10:30 PM                In Rooms/Showers Closed
11:00 PM                Lights Out

TUESDAY and THURSDAY

6:00 AM                  Breakfast
7:00 AM                  Great Send-Off (Tuesday only); leave for worksites
4:00 PM                  Leave worksite for Brainerd Baptist
6:00 PM                  Dinner
7:00 PM                  Adult Meeting and Prayer in Sanctuary
7:30 PM                  Worship (doors open at 7:15)
                              Church Group Devotions
9:00-10:00 PM        Free Time with Marketplace (Sales Table) & Missions Lounge open
10:30 PM                In Rooms/Showers Closed
11:00 PM                Lights Out

WEDNESDAY EVENING

3:30-4:00 PM              Leave worksite for Brainerd Baptist
5:00 PM                  Dinner (eat with church youth group and wear WC tee shirts)
5:45 PM                  Leave for Ministry Project and City Experience
9:30-10:00 PM        Return to Brainerd Baptist
10:30 PM                       In Rooms/Showers Closed
11:00 PM                Lights Out

FRIDAY EVENING

6:45 PM                  Adult Prayer in Sanctuary             
7:15 PM                  Worship (doors open at 7:00)
8:30 PM                  Crew Chats/ Evaluation time
9:00 PM                  Closing Celebration
                              Youth Group Devotions
10:30 PM                 Free Time with Missions Lounge open (Marketplace closed)
11:00 PM                 In Rooms/ Showers Closed
11:30 PM                 Lights Out

SATURDAY
6:00-8:00 AM           Breakfast/Check Out

Let's Pack!

Since our project is almost here, many of you are asking what to pack. Since the worksites haven't all been assigned, here is a generic packing list for students and adults. 

If this is your first experience with World Changers, it is important to remember that your clothing is part of your Christian witness, so all shirts should have sleeves (no spaghetti straps or tanks) and all shorts should be long.

CLOTHES
For work -- 4 work teeshirts
2 or 3 pair work jeans or carpenter pants
work shoes or boots
socks

For worship, free time, and travel --  4 of 5 teeshirts with sleeves
1 pair "good" jeans
long shorts or capris
athletic shoes or sandals
a hoody or sweater
sleep stuff (remember -- with sleeves!)
raincoat
shower shoes
sleep clothes -- with sleeves
shorts and teeshirt to wear to shower trailer

STUFF
toiletries (soap, deoderant, shampoo, etc.)
sun
screen
chapstick
insect repellant
small bottle Febreeze
large plastic bag for dirty clothes
2 towels and washcloths
air mattress (twin, please)
sleeping bag or sheets and blanket
pillow
money for mission offering
pen or pencil
Bible and journal
water bottle         
hat or visor
work gloves
paint brush
scraper
safety glasses
hammer
sunglasses

Our World Changers Summer Staff!

You guys have a real treat in store this summer when you meet our World Changers Summer Staff.  Here are pics and a little info about each of these talented young people.

Our Office Manager and Team Leader this year is Erin Kicklighter.  She is finishing up her junior year of college at North Greenville University and is majoring in Elementary Education.  Erin has competed in 4 beauty pageants (3 of them were prelims for Miss South Carolina).  She has lived in her current house for only 15 weeks while the rest of her family has lived there for almost 2 years!  Erin LOVES ducks, and Reeses are her favorite candy.  She has been doing World Changers since 7th grade and is very excited about the Chattanooga project!

Doug Forsythe is our Missions and Communication Specialist.  He is a junior at Liberty University where he is studying to be a Youth Pastor (yay!).  Doug lives in Grand Junction, CO, and he loves to ride four-wheelers in the mountains.  He has been on five World Changers trips, as well as a mission trip to San Felipe, Mexico where he worked at Sonshine Hacienda Orphanage.  Most Importantly:  Doug LOVES Jesus!

We are excited to have Molly Fly this year as our Audiovisual Technician.  Molly is just finished her freshmen year at Itawanda Community College in Fulton, Mississippi.  She has no clue what she wants to do when she grows up!  Molly has a sister named Kara who is married, as well as a younger brother named Harrison who is in the ninth grade.  She laughs about almost anything, and Molly gets scared really easily!

Last but not least is Steven Zhang, our Music Leader.  Steven has just finished his freshman year at Georgia Southern University where he is studying Mechanical Engineering.  He is from a little town in Georgia called Eastman.  Steven loves to play sports and is always active; he is on the Club Frisbee team and the Club Tennis team at Southern.  He is a HUGE advocate of Campus Outreach and what they do; if it wasn't for World Changers, he would be with CO at a Summer Beach Project but praise God for both doors!  Steven will surprise you when he speaks -- English is his first language, but he speaks English with a Southern accent!

Please be praying for these very special four college students as they serve in several other cities before they come to Chattanooga.  Of course, we all know Chattanooga will be the BEST WC PROJECT for them and for us!

What Tools Do We All Bring?

As we all know, bringing the necessary tools is essential to a successful World Changers project! It is important for EACH participant to bring a PAINT BRUSH, SCRAPER (also called putty knife), HAMMER, WORK GLOVES, and SAFETY GLASSES.  In the past, Chattanooga was fortunate to have the use of the Tennessee Disaster Relief Tool Trailer, but this year we won't have those extra tools and supplies.  Therefore, we are also hoping some churches will be able to bring ladders, paint rollers, roller pans, etc.  We appreciate your help in encouraging your students and chaperones to come prepared!

Our Awesome Speaker for Week Two!

Pastor Gregg Hauss will be the Worship Speaker in Chattanooga for the week of July 15-20.  Gregg is the Missions and Ministry Pastor of Red Bank Baptist Church in Chattanooga, a church that has supported World Changers in numerous ways for years.  Called into the ministry at age 16, he has served as an ordained minister for 25 years.  He has a BS in Business Administration from the University of Memphis, a Master of Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, and is pursuing a Doctor of Ministry in Missions from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.  Gregg was a youth pastor at Peachtree Corners Baptist Church in Norcross, GA, and at Bellevue Baptist in Memphis, TN.  With a heart for church planting, he helped Bellevue begin a satellite campus called Bellevue Arlington and has led student groups on mission projects all over the U.S. and several other countries, including World Changers projects in Tuscaloosa, AL, and West Frankfort, IL.

Gregg has been married to his beautiful wife Allyson for 26 years.  They have three children:  Kimberlee who is married to Stephen and lives in Birmingham, AL; Stephen who is a senior business major at Union University in Jackson, TN; and Callie, who is a sophomore at Chattanooga Christian School.

Gregg played college football for the University of Memphis as placekicker, and he loves to watch and play basketball.  His favorite vacation spot with his family is the beach!  Pastor Gregg is thrilled about working with World Changers this year as our Worship Speaker.  The students from his church will be traveling to New Orleans to do a WC project in July also.

Where Will We Be Working?

Ricky has been busy selecting worksites and preparing material lists for our Week Two project!  He is working now on reviewing crew chief applications and matching up crew chiefs to work sites that fit their skills; the crew chiefs will be receiving detailed information about the specific work they will be doing and the tools they need to bring.  It always helps, however, for the kids and adults to have a peek at some of the sites where they will be working.  It is also very important to stress that they come prepared with their tools -- paint brush, hammer, scraper, safety glasses, and work gloves.   Other items such as paint roller frames and roller pads would be a big help, too! 

These two houses are good examples of many of the jobs this year -- exterior painting.  The houses will have to be scraped, and some minor repairs completed.  Then the house will be painted.  Obviously, painting supplies and scrapers will be needed for each participant.

Welcome Week Two Groups!

We have some fabulous groups coming to Chattanooga to work together during Week Two.  Here are the churches, cities, and group leaders:

• Central Baptist Church of Round Rock, Texas, led by Ryan Hanson
• Community Church of Salem, Virginia, led by Laurie McCracken
• First Baptist Church of Greenwood, South Carolina, led by Bea Tillman
• First Baptist Church of Reidsville, North Carolina, led by Lance Cole
• Forest Baptist Church of Lynchburg, Virginia, led by Will Soto
• Gate City Baptist Church of Jamestown, North Carolina
• Haywood Hills Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee, led by Lance Wamble
• Pleasant Valley Baptist Church of Providence, Kentucky, led by Ron Winebarger
• Richland Baptist Church of Hartwood, Virginia, led by Phil Howard
• Springboro Baptist Church of Springboro, Ohio, led by Mike Shirley
• The Baptist Church at McAdory of McCalla, Alabama, led by Matt Pope
• The Church at Trophy Lakes of Trophy Club, Texas, led by Terri Thompson

We are very excited to meet all of you and are praying for a blessed week together in Chattanooga!

Meet Our National World Changers Coordinators

What a blessing it is to have National World Changers Coordinators who also live in Chattanooga!  Modena and Bill Kagay went on their first World Changers projects as participants with their church group to Canton, NC, in 1992. Over the next seven or eight years, they served as Crew Encouragers, Crew Chiefs, Supervisors, and Construction Coordinators at 13 additional projects plus several other mission trips with their church.   In 1999, Bill resigned from a 28-year career at the Tennessee Valley Authority to sign on along with Modena as Mission Service Corps volunteers serving as Construction Consultants for World Changers. In 2002, Bill was hired to serve as a National Missionary for World Changers.  Bill and Modena are now serving as National Missionaries with World Changers and PowerPlant at LifeWay Christian Resources.  During their time with World Changers, they have served as Project Coordinators and Construction Coordinators for three International World Changers projects in Nairobi, Kenya, Chevin, Peru, and Valenzia, Venezuela.  They have also provided Disaster Relief to several communities which suffered damage from wind and flooding.   Bill and Modena do their best to share Christ's love with others in their church and community.  Please pray for them as they prepare for our project!