16-06-2012 19:34 Nambashi Khunou Baptist Church Construction: My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nation

Read the original here:
Nambashi Khunou Baptist Church.3gp - Video

16-06-2012 19:46 This is the New Building Church construction site

Read the original here:
Nambashi Khunou -Chipemmi - Video

Building three homes in San Raimundo, Guatemala, created more than a dry place for three families to sleep. It built a team of 34 high-school students and 14 adults and a hammer-and-nails understanding of another culture.

Most of our kids our high-school kids who go down there, they have never seen anything like it. Theyve never seen families living like this, said Jo Ruby, a volunteer at First Presbyterian Church in Missoula. Some of the houses Ive seen them living in are wood pallets pieced together with blankets shoved in between them. In Guatemala, with 70 percent poverty, I think they will see even more of that when we go down there. They really see how the rest of the world is living.

Ruby has gone with her church youth group on previous building trips to Mexico, where she watched the attitudes of the people theyd gone to serve change the students.

They think you have to be happy with material possessions, and when you get down there, the families are incredibly generous, and they want to cook for you, they want to thank you, Ruby said. Theres lots of tears and they want to hug the kids all the time.

On one of Rubys trips to Mexico, the family they built the house for had teenage daughters.

They brought out all their jewelry and they wanted to share it with the girls, Ruby said. I think it makes (the students) want to serve in other ways when they come home, not just in Mexico or Guatemala, but to go out into the world.

The 2012 contingent, from the First Presbyterian Church youth group and community members, left Saturday to build three homes in one week.

We will be building the houses from start to finish, said Ezrah Schmeelk, director of youth ministries. The ground is usually somewhat level. If not, we level it we go from leveling the foundation to installing the windows and putting up the roof.

While the trip is centered on the building project, the focus will be on building relationships, Ruby said.

We like to say if you are just going down to build a house, you arent accomplishing much, Ruby said. Its about being around the families.

See the original post:
Montana church group to build houses in Guatemala

A small, pristine church sits alone in a field on a hill behind Skyview High, holding both a past and a future.

Built in 1917 in Box Elder, Faith Lutheran Church served a small congregation in the tiny north-central Montana town just south of the Canadian border for nearly 90 years. In the not-too-distant future, whats now called the Little White Church will be the worship center for a senior community planned by St. Johns Lutheran Ministries.

The church has been refurbished and restored as near to its original condition as possible. Its completion and rededication will be celebrated June 23-24 with festivities at the church.

Moving the building the 277 miles from Box Elder to Billings wasnt cheap, admits Kent Burgess, St. Johns president and CEO. It cost about $68,000 to move the church and steeple more than 275 miles.

But Burgess said it was worth it.

We could probably have built a church from the bottom up for less money, Burgess said. On the other hand, we wouldnt have the story, and whats important is the story.

The story starts with an idea that Burgess had and an offer that St. Johns got from Atonement Lutheran Church in the Billings Heights.

Id kept my eyes out for a little white church and always thought it would be wonderful to make it the center of a new senior living

community, Burgess said. In the midst of that, Atonement donated 7.82 acres to us.

Atonements congregation bought 22 acres behind Skyview in 2002 on which it intends to build a new church. It is sharing its old building, which it sold to City Church, until it raises the money to construct a new building.

Read more from the original source:
Former Box Elder church restored to serve a new community

South Oxford church gets close to revamp dream

11:20am Sunday 17th June 2012 in News By Andrew Ffrench

COMMUNITY groups who use a South Oxford church are celebrating after a major grant brought them closer to a 500,000 revamp.

Following a 75,000 grant this week from environmental body Wren, a total of 430,000 has now been raised towards the total needed to renovate St Lukes Church, in Canning Crescent.

Vicar the Rev Jane Sherwood said the project would now definitely go ahead, and she expected construction work to begin early next year.

She said: This is fantastic news and we are now only about 70,000 away from our target.

The tenders for the contract will come back in early July for the extension and the renewal of the existing building.

We will be taking everything out apart from the timber frame and the foundations.

The building functions as a community centre as well as a church and is used almost every day of the week by childrens groups and mums and toddler groups, as well as for arts events.

This is a very well-used public space and we think the renovation is vital for the local area.

View original post here:
South Oxford church gets close to revamp dream

Theyre praying for the immaculate construction.

Preservationists hope a Manhattan developer set to buy one of Harlems most beautiful churches will save it.

St. Thomas the Apostle Church on West 118th Street (pictured) has sat empty for nine years since the New York Archdiocese shuttered it in 2003.

Efforts to landmark the hulking neo-Gothic structure built in 1907 failed, and the building, which was recently covered in scaffolding, has been in limbo ever since.

The archdiocese is in contract to sell the property and two others to Artimus Construction in a $6 million deal, according to papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Paul Rocheleau

The documents give no hint of Artimus plans. The archdiocese declined to comment.

Peg Breen, of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, praised Artimus Construction. If this developer is true to its track record, it could be very good news, she said.

But locals were less sure of the impending sale, which requires court approval.

I presume theyre selling it to knock it down, said Simeon Bankoff of the Historic Districts Council.

See the original post here:
Landmark church in peril

AME ZION

Rock Hill District: Lay Councils Fathers Day banquet, 6 p.m. Sunday at New Mount Olivet AME Zion Church, Dave Lyle Boulevard, Rock Hill.

Chestnut Grove AME Zion Church, Chester: Pre-Fathers Day 100 Men in Black concert, 5 p.m. today.

China Grove AME Zion Church, Mount Gallant Road, Rock Hill: Community yard sale, 6 a.m.-2 p.m. today at 1758 Twin Lakes Road. Father/son picnic, 3-8 p.m. today at the church. Free and open to all men and boys. Prizes and drawings for NFL jersey and footballs. Fathers Day program, 10 a.m. Sunday. All-Male Chorus second anniversary, 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Foundation AME Zion Church, Neely Store Road, Rock Hill: Vacation Bible School, No Friend Like Jesus: Get Connected, 6 p.m. Monday-Friday for all ages. Dinner nightly. For information, call 803-329-4343. Fathers Day Luau, 5 p.m. today to celebrate Dad with food, dance and fellowship. Children and youth prom, 6-11 p.m. June 23 in the fellowship hall. Tickets are $6 and photos are $5. For information, call 803-329-4343.

Liberty Hill AME Zion Church, Lake Wylie: Vacation Bible School, No Friend Like Jesus: Get Connected, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday-Wednesday. Male Choir anniversary, 5 p.m. June 23 and 2:30 p.m. June 24. Graduates will be honored at 10 a.m. June 24.

Metropolitan AME Zion Church, Chester: Vacation Bible School, Christians Under Construction, 6-8 p.m. Monday-Wednesday.

St. Matthew AME Zion Church, Lige Street, Rock Hill: Revival, 7 p.m. Monday-Thursday with the Rev. Staccato Powell.

United AME Zion Church, Steele Street, Fort Mill: Fathers Day appreciation service, 2 p.m. Sunday.

ARP

Original post:
Church news: Revivals, meals, music and more

By Catherine Pritchard Staff writer

It used to be easy to direct people to Mount Moriah Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church.

Just turn off McArthur Road onto Jacob Street or Jossie Street, then to Benjamin Street. You couldn't miss the church, which sits on the short road beside a cornfield.

Now, because of construction of the Outer Loop, Mount Moriah is accessible only by a street with no name.

Bulldozers had to tear through Jacob and Jossie streets to build the interstate, which cut off the easy access to a handful of houses and the church at the far end of the area. A new access road was built at the back of the College Lakes subdivision.

But the access road is nameless. It's a windy path that GPS systems are not acquainted with, so it takes good directions, luck and perseverance for strangers to make it to Mount Moriah these days.

It proved too much for many recently when the small church held its annual barbecue to feed all comers for free. Usually, more than 100 people show up, said James Williams, an elder whose wife, Geralene, leads worship at Mount Moriah. Fewer than half that number found their way to the church this year.

Williams says that's because it's so hard to tell people how to get there.

He paid for small directional signs, which he planted at key intersections along the way - at the intersection of Chesapeake and McArthur roads, then another showing the left turn off Chesapeake onto Shoreline Drive, and another at the end of that curvy residential street showing a left turn onto Saddle Ridge Road, and another past Buck Court at the stretch of nameless blacktop on the right, and another at a new intersection where there's only a pole-less stop sign stuck in the ground and a small Mount Moriah sign that sometimes topples over.

Around a wooded bend, finally, is the church.

See original here:
Construction of Fayetteville's Outer Loop makes access to church more difficult

By Ashley Yarchin

Madison, IL (KSDK) - The old church was being remodeled at the time.

PHOTOS - Church burns in Madison, Illinois

Folks have been driving past the wreckage of The Sacred Heart of Jesus Polish National Church all day, sharing stories from when they married here or simply enjoyed parties and the church's famous perogies.

So, it's been hard on the community.

Fortunately, recovery has already begun thanks to the folks who are actually responsible for the mess.

Love Construction and Roofing was at the church Wednesday repairing the roof following the damage from a hail storm a few weeks ago.

Apparently, the repairs required some heat and flames to affix the rubber to the top of the building.

Shortly after that was done, the workers left for the day and within 10 minutes the church was engulfed in flames.

But the parishioners say there are no hard feelings, it was an accident.

Read more from the original source:
Recovery beginning for church that burned in Madison, IL

12-06-2012 22:39 Church Building with Building Gods Way @ , shares an incredible building strategy with church leaders. Building God's Way is a remarkable network of services that includes ministering to workers on the jobsite while in the church construction process. Don't wait till your building is finished before you reach out to further growth in His kingdom BGW has a nationwide builder network, specializing in church building, that fully endorse and support the Ministry of Construction outreach program. An example of that Builder network is listed here, visit any to learn more: Connect with us on facebook & twitter:

More here:
Church Building with BGW's Don Mahoney - Building pt 2 - Video