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Yesterday was the first day of the construction phase of our World Changers project, and it was a blur!  But it was a good blur!

All the groups assembled out in front of the school building for the Great Send Off at 7:00 a.m.
On had for the event was one member of City Council, representatives from [...]

There’s a brief lull before the next wave of activity takes off, so I thought I’d snag the time to post a mid-Sunday update.
The last 24 hours have been utterly astounding.  God has shown up. In force.

Today we combined with Cradock Presbyterian and Cradock United Methodist Churches for worship
Some of our folks who have been [...]

It’s very late and there’s still work to be done before we get any sleep, but everyone arrived safely this afternoon and they are all settled into the school.
Opening Celebration went off without a hitch.  I wish I could say the same for dinner. (The food was good but sending only two people to cook [...]

As many of you know, for the better part of the last three years I’ve been working with the Partnership Missions Team of the Portsmouth Baptist Association to bring World Changers to Portsmouth.  Almost a year of that time was spent aligning time lines–the city’s budget timeline, the HUD grant application timeline, the project’s application [...]

When I got up this morning the smoke from the fires out in the Great Dismal Swamp had blown in, making visibility lousy and breathing challenging. Things weren’t much better when we got to the church, but we managed to wheeze through it all together.

Attendance was back up today, and we had several guests from [...]