Posted: 9/19/03
Volunteers needed in Lubbock
Texas Baptist Men Builders completed more than half the work on a new residential facility for My Father's House in Lubbock, but additional volunteers are needed to finish the massive construction project, according to Shirley Madden, executive director of the ministry.
Volunteers from each of the Texas Baptist Men Builders groups–crews that specialize in building churches, encampment facilities, furniture or cabinets–teamed up to spend three months on the Living and Learning Center project.
My Father's House of Lubbock currently is located at Iglesia Bautista Templo, where it offers Christian Women's Job Corps training, teaching job skills and life skills to women in need. Texas Baptists help support Christian Women's Job Corps, a ministry originated and sponsored by Woman's Missionary Union, through gifts to the Mary Hill Davis Offering for Texas missions.
The Living and Learning Center–being built on 4.3 donated acres near Lubbock's Lowrey Field–will add a residential component to Christian Women's Job Corps. The center will include 18 two-bedroom apartments, classrooms, a commercial kitchen and day-care and laundry facilities where women can gain hands-on job experience.
Recently, students in the Lubbock Independent School District's building trades classes started working on the project, and some local church groups and individuals also have volunteered. But many more volunteer builders and "prayer warriors" are needed, Madden said.
Volunteers with any experience in drywall hanging, taping and bedding, bricklaying, landscape sprinkler system installation, painting, tile setting, carpet laying or exterior siding installation are needed.
The ministry also needs financial assistance and donated supplies such as carpet, tile and paint, Madden added. In time, the center will need equipment for its kitchen, laundry and daycare center.
“We also are praying for a missionary couple to come and live free in the center and be our on-site grandparents, to serve as godly role models for our women,” Madden said.
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