Get Ready to Change the World!
7 Churches from five states arrived today with 180 students and adult leaders ready to Change the World! Students unloaded trailers and rolled out air mattresses. Students will spend their days restoring hope to communities by repairing lower income housing. In the evening students will explore what it means to be Set Apart. The World Changers Cincinnati Staff is excited to meet all the students offering their hard earned money, a week of summer break and their love for those who are in need. Students will be on 15 work sites scraping paint, building wheel chair ramps, and building relationships.
Opening Celebration
Opening Celebration was a blast! Many games were played. Including several rounds of Gorilla, Man, Gun! Students participated in an eBay version of The Price is Right. Did you know an unsharpened pencil would sell for 124 bucks? Weird. Singing, Cheering, and competing, the students exuberance could be felt.
We’re ready to get these projects on the road! Tomorrow participants will wake at 6AM to eat breakfast and head out to their worksites. All are excited to begin the work and impact the Cincinnati Community!
World Changers Dallas is Excited to Welcome the Following Churches:
Bellevue Baptist Church of Owensburg Kentucky
Calhoun Baptist Church of Calhoun Kentucky
Carlisle Avenue Baptist Church of Louisville Kentucky
First Baptist Church New Baltimore of New Baltimore Mississippi
First Baptist Soddy Daisy of Soddy Daisy Tennessee
Maize Road Baptist Church of Columbus Ohio
Riverside Baptist Church of Waynesville North Carolina
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There’s been sweat, there’s been tears, and even some blood shed this week as 298 participants representing 12 churches and 7 states exerted mass amounts of energy among the community of Augusta. These students sacrificed a week out of their summer when they could’ve been at the beach, they could’ve stayed home, or hung out with their friends playing video games or going to the movies like the majority of our generation does. Instead these teens decided to be set apart from the usual stereotype of our generation.
Some learned to roof a house, to paint a porch, to scrape windows, and all of them learned how to make a house a home. In response to that we would like to thank you for all the hard work you’ve given to making a difference to the people in Augusta. Each of you were at the very least a silent example of Christ and some of you were outspoken enough to bring the gospel to your homeowner and even their neighbors. So from the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU! We had a BLAST getting to know each of you, and you’ve touched our hearts considerably and this trip will not be soon forgotten.
Tuesday night the missions offering was collected and to be honest I was floored by how sacrificially these students gave! The total given was $3,031.11!! WOW!!! There are 298 participants which averages to almost $10/participant which is AMAZING!! 
We also had an auction in which we auctioned off Carter and Audrie to work half a day with the highest bidding crew also Matt and I (Halley) auctioned off dinner with ourselves at Zaxby’s to the highest bidder. Audrie was auctioned off to the Needle Noses crew, Carter was auctioned off to the Joint Clamps. Matt and I had dinner with Caroline Davidson, Dee Davidson, and Lexi. We all had an awesome time! The final total for the missions offering was around $2,500!!!!
Lastly, E Couragrams will not be delivered to the students after tonight! THANK YOU!
So… One word describes today (and very inaccurately at that) WOW!!! GOD IS AT WORK IN AUGUSTA!!!
The students arose early again to get off to their work sites. AND IT WAS HOT TODAY!! After a long hot day in the sun the students came back “home” to Crawford Avenue to shower, clean up, and get ready for dinner and worship.
Tonight was the concert of prayer, which is personally my favorite night for worship at world changers. We worshiped through scripture, prayer, and song. A few students shared their cardboard testimonies.. which was AMAZING!! The Holy Spirit was stirring the hearts of our youth and moving them to kneel before the altar, raise their hands in praise, shout to God, and looking up to the Heaven’s towards God. The students were dismissed at the end of the concert of prayer but noone moved. The majority of the students stayed in the worship center completely surrendering themselves in worship. I have never seen such raw, uncut, free and moving worship. When we get out of the way of ourselves God really begins to move in our hearts. 3 students were claimed for Christ’s kingdom, 2 surrendered to missions, 1 student surrendered to ministry and 2 students rededicated their lives to Christ… I’d say it was a pretty amazing night full of celebration, tears, laughted, joy, dancing, singing, shouting, and FREEDOM!!!! It was truly THE MOST BEAUTIFUL sight I have EVER seen. It was unforgettable to my heart to see mostly high school and middle school students feel so free in their relationship with Christ to express themselves so freely!!
Students awoke this morning at a very primitive hour with excitement and adrenaline in their bodies, ready to serve the Lord. After gathering in a HUGE circle, holding hands, and praying the students rushed through a gauntlet of their adult leaders they loaded in their church vans and headed towards downtown Augusta where we would be police escorted to meet the mayor, city administrator, and the director of housing authority. The mayor declared it World Changers week in Augusta and I know the students are excited to be a part of something so big!
This week in Augusta the lovely, and inspiring Jay Moore will be bringing the message, encouraging our students to be Set Apart from the world, to be holy. So far worship has been stirring the hearts of our students from raising hands in praise to the King, to falling on their knees at the alter in awe of His wonder and beauty! It’s only the second day and God is already moving! It’s SO exciting to watch the veil being torn out from the eyes of the worshippers.
HEY YALL BACK HOME!!!!
I just want to let you guys know that all of the church have safely arrived here in Augusta! The churches attending the Augusta project this week are:
Brasshers Chapel Good Hope Baptist Church Mt. Yonah Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church Highland Park Baptist Church Victory Baptist Church
Faith Baptist Church King’s Baptist
FBC Butler Macland Baptist Church
FBC of Okeechobee Metea Baptist Church
We are completely excited about seeing each of these students using their skills to be the different instruments of Christ to this community!
We had an amazingly fun time at opening celebration, where we introduced the summer staff, and coordinating staff, and played some fun games that united us as a group!
Tonight the groups will get their rest for a fun day tomorrow in which they will find out what crew’s they are on and what project they are assigned to!
As for now.. this is Project Augusta checking out for the night!!!
Hey! We are ready to get this week kicked off here in Augusta, GA.!! Summer Staff is SO excited to see what God has in store for this community and also for the life the students are going to bring!
First off let me introduce you to the Summer Staff as well as the Coordinating staff…
Robert Austin | Project Coordinator
Crawford Avenue Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia has kindly opened their facility to us for the week and we are so thankful for their willingness to allow God to use them in this way!
Crawford Avenue Baptist Church
We are so excited to meet the students and to dive into the community of Augusta, Georgia in hopes of showing them Christ’s love through serving them and meeting their practical needs!!
AUGUSTA GET READY FOR US TO CHANGE YOUR WORLD!!!!
