Info for Churches - About Us
Baptist
Church Builders of Texas (Church Builders for short) is a
group of Christians, who, by God’s leading, go together each
summer and construct one church building for a needy church
somewhere in the United States . We also do other projects
throughout the year.
A little about us:
Our group is a little different than most. We are a family
oriented group that takes projects that most groups won't
touch.
Most
construction groups require specific plans, but we do not.
We want the church to design the plans that will best suit
their needs. We have some plans and ideas that we can
suggest, but ultimately, it is up to the church.
But please note, we DO NOT come in after someone else has
raised a metal building and finish it out.
We are geared to start from the slab up. We raise the
walls, set the trusses, deck and put on felt/shingles, put
on the exterior siding or get it ready for brick, install
windows/doors, install the soffit and facia, do electrical
wiring, help with the duct work for air conditioning, build
the "stage" or platform/baptistry/choir loft, build
cabinets, and we even insulate and sheetrock and have even
taped, bedded and painted.
We do not
guarantee any stage of work to be done, we only offer 5 days
of work by our Main Crew, whatever size that turns out to
be. We are not responsible for delays caused by weather,
material shortage or inspections.
We ARE set in when we go to do a project. So far it has
worked for us to have our main crew the 3rd FULL week
in July. The "early crew" would arrive the week
before and make sure building materials are on site and
start getting things prepared for the main crew. Then
people from all over start pouring in, we never know how
many… but it’s always enough. Sometimes two to three
hundred...and we have our Sunday night meeting on the slab
that includes worship, introductions & instructions for our
group as well as the local church body.
The Main Crew starts work at 7:00 am Monday morning after a
devotional, instructions and prayer. That’s when the fun
starts!! Walls go up so fast you can’t believe it!!
Meanwhile, our kitchen crew has begun cooking for the
group. We usually rent a school's kitchen or borrow a large
church's facilities and they prepare two meals a day for the
group for only $25.00 per person for the week's meals. Kids
under 10 eat free as does the local church members who work
on the project that week.
Our group provides our own accommodations (we stay in motels
and RV Parks) so that the church isn't out anything...all we
ask is that you have your land paid for, have plans that
have been approved , licenses obtained, inspectors lined up
for that week, have financing in place (if necessary) and
have a slab down and materials on site when we arrive. We
will need the Chairman of your Building Committee We
don't ask you to pay for anything for our group like
most groups do.
Now that you know a little about our group, if you are
interested in requesting help from our group, here is what
you need to do:
First, you fill out the application and send a page
with floor plans printed on it. Not the whole set of plans,
just a sketch page of the basic floor plans. Get that to us
and let us take a look at it. Pray about it. If things
look good, we will call and visit with you for more
information. We will ask you to send us a full set of
plans. Next, we continue to visit with you over phone or by
e-mail. If we are feeling strongly that this could possibly
be where God is leading us to, we will schedule an on-site
visit by our leadership team. We would at that time meet
with a building committee along with Pastor and other
leadership. We would visit hotels, RV parks to get
information for our group. We would look at any school or
other church kitchen that we might be able to rent for that
week. We would be then make a decision about whether or not
this is where we will go.
The projects from the past couple years have websites that
you can go to and look at and see their buildings. The first
one was in 2006 in
Prairieville , LA . Their website is
www.4fellowship.org This project was
approximately 14,000 sq. ft. which included a multi-purpose
building (gym), educational space, and a octagon building
out front... We didn't get to get as far along on that
building as we'd hoped because they didn't have the
foundation poured before we arrive. They poured it on
Monday morning while our crew put walls together on the
ground to be raised Tuesday. So it put us behind...and
besides it was southern Louisiana ...it was hot and
humid!!! But we got alot done...hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of labor.
The second project was in Galloway OH in 2007 in which we
raised a building with over 7,000 sq. ft in it. They have
well documented their trip on their website
www.cng.org Click on BUILDING then on
PICTURES. Page 6 is when our early crew arrive. Page 9 is
where we leave. We had approx. 200 Church Builders and
over 75 local members working on the project during the week
we were there.