Greensboro NC Adventist Church AYS Mission Project

“Your gifts evangelize where you may not be able to go.”

The Adventist Youth Society (AYS) of the Greensboro Seventh-Day Adventist church has seen the need to adopt a special international church building

project and is soliciting your kind financial support. We hope that after reading through this brief description of the project your heart will be touched as ours

did.

The project is located in the Inter-American Division of Seventh-Day Adventists in the Caribbean country of Jamaica. The specific name of the church is Berkshire Seventh-day Adventist.

Though There Are Dozens of Reasons Why You May Want To Contribute To This Special International Church Building Project, Here Are Eight (8) Reasons Why We Asked You To Contribute

1. The church, as it is now, has no Sabbath school classrooms. Classes are held outside (except for one class) and in times of bad weather service becomes somewhat chaotic with all classes going on simultaneous inside.

2. There are no vestries or place to store sacred objects such as communion vessels. Everything is kept inside the sanctuary.

3. Breastfeeding mothers and mothers with young children are forced to attend to their children outside in the open public. This causes nursing mothers to choose not to attend church at times or not to attend church at all until their children are weaned.

4. The church has only one outhouse (a 5ft by 5ft zinc shed) as restroom for both males and females with no washbasins. A modern restroom facility is urgently needed.

5. Pot-luck and other fellowship events are held outside. Members and visitors sit on stones outside and eat. Whenever it rains, everyone rushes inside the sanctuary with all the food, pots and pans; there they eat, drink, laugh and talk. The condition of the sanctuary afterward is not one that God is always pleased with.

6. The church currently has less than one-quarter the amount of furniture it needs. Many pews have no support for the back.

7. The church greatly needs an office from which to handle its affairs.

8. The Seventh-day Adventist church is the only church in the vicinity without classrooms, proper restroom facilities, vestry, office or mothers’ nursing room. Sad to say, people are turned off at times when they visit the church; many never visit again. The members try hard to make progress in the church but even giving their all is way short.

Here Are Pictures Of The Church As It Is Now, As Well As The Finish Product:

The overall aim of this project is to build:

• 3 Sabbath school classrooms

• a vestry

• a fellowship hall

• a modern restroom facility

• an office

• a mothers’ nursing room

• a kitchen

• a miscellaneous storeroom

With your help, this can be achieved.

If your contribution is by check, please make it payable to:

Greensboro Seventh-day Adventist Church

1320 Fleming Road, Greensboro, NC 27410

Be sure to put in the memo/for line of your check International Church Building Project, otherwise your contribution may not be distributed to your intended purpose. (This would be a regrettable occurrence). A sample check is shown below.

Persons authorized to accept/collect funds for this special project:

Fabian Reid, Greensboro AYS Leader

For further information contact Fabian Reid at reidfabian@yahoo.com

Your contribution is well appreciated. Thank You!

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.” 2 Corinthians 13: 14

(This fundraising project runs from August to December 2008.)






					1320 Fleming Road • Greensboro, NC 27410 • 336.854.7888





					“Your gifts evangelize where you may not be able to go.” The Adventist Youth Society (AYS) of the Greensboro Seventh-Day Adventist church has seen the need to adopt a special international church building project and is soliciting your kind financial support. We hope that after reading through this brief description of the project your heart will be touched as ours did. The project is located in the Inter-American Division of Seventh-Day Adventists in the Caribbean country of Jamaica. The specific name of the church is Berkshire Seventh-day Adventist. Though There Are Dozens of Reasons Why You May Want To Contribute To This Special International Church Building Project, Here Are Eight (8) Reasons Why We Asked You To Contribute 1. The church, as it is now, has no Sabbath school classrooms. Classes are held outside (except for one class) and in times of bad weather service becomes somewhat chaotic with all classes going on simultaneous inside. 2. There are no vestries or place to store sacred objects such as communion vessels. Everything is kept inside the sanctuary. 3. Breastfeeding mothers and mothers with young children are forced to attend to their children outside in the open public. This causes nursing mothers to choose not to attend church at times or not to attend church at all until their children are weaned. 4. The church has only one outhouse (a 5ft by 5ft zinc shed) as restroom for both males and females with no washbasins. A modern restroom facility is urgently needed. 5. Pot-luck and other fellowship events are held outside. Members and visitors sit on stones outside and eat. Whenever it rains, everyone rushes inside the sanctuary with all the food, pots and pans; there they eat, drink, laugh and talk. The condition of the sanctuary afterward is not one that God is always pleased with. 6. The church currently has less than one-quarter the amount of furniture it needs. Many pews have no support for the back. 7. The church greatly needs an office from which to handle its affairs. 8. The Seventh-day Adventist church is the only church in the vicinity without classrooms, proper restroom facilities, vestry, office or mothers’ nursing room. Sad to say, people are turned off at times when they visit the church; many never visit again. The members try hard to make progress in the church but even giving their all is way short. Here Are Pictures Of The Church As It Is Now, As Well As The Finish Product: The overall aim of this project is to build: • 3 Sabbath school classrooms • a vestry • a fellowship hall • a modern restroom facility • an office • a mothers’ nursing room • a kitchen • a miscellaneous storeroom With your help, this can be achieved. If your contribution is by check, please make it payable to: Greensboro Seventh-day Adventist Church 1320 Fleming Road, Greensboro, NC 27410 Be sure to put in the memo/for line of your check International Church Building Project, otherwise your contribution may not be distributed to your intended purpose. (This would be a regrettable occurrence). A sample check is shown below. Persons authorized to accept/collect funds for this special project: Fabian Reid, Greensboro AYS Leader For further information contact Fabian Reid at reidfabian@yahoo.com Your contribution is well appreciated. Thank You! “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.” 2 Corinthians 13: 14 (This fundraising project runs from August to December 2008.)