40“The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ Matthew 25:40, NIV
I was originally introduced to World Changers through a promotional brochure mailed to me as the youth pastor at Forest Park Baptist Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, way back in 1992. I was looking for a missions experience for our youth that went beyond the “week at camp” experience, something that would impact their lives and help them experience the joy and sense of fulfillment in their Christian faith that comes from serving Christ by serving others. I’d been weighing some work camp options, trying to figure out if we could raise the necessary travel and participation fees when the World Changers brochure arrived. For essentially the same period of time, the participant fee was about half what I had seen offered, and that was important to both our church budget and our congregation of working class families. So we decided on World Changers.
When I called to register, the only space available was in Clarksdale, Mississippi. That was about five hours away, and it seemed as good as anywhere else, so I registered. It was something different and new, and not the typical summer youth camp that our church had done for years before I came, so getting the participation of the kids was not easy. In the long run, I think we managed to recruit about 12 or 13 youth, less than half of our active membership. I wanted them to have a tremendous experience, so that they would come back full of enthusiasm, spiritual faith experiences and a lot of good words to help increase participation the next year.
It was one of those projects where just about everything that could go wrong did. The first day of the project, the air conditioning in the student union building where the dining hall and worship center were located went out and temperatures in the Mississippi Delta were hovering around the 100 degree mark. The furnishings and bedding in the dorms where we stayed had been slated for replacement, but the school was waiting for World Changers to exit before doing so, and as a result, we wound up sleeping on the floor for the most part anyway. The quantity and size of the mosquitos was mind-boggling. The system for delivering building materials put in place by the local supplier failed when one of his two trucks broke down, and runners had to take up the slack. The company scheduled to provide portable toilets didn’t show. I didn’t think that our youth group would have a positive experience with all of that going on.
But God is faithful, and good.
On Sunday afternoon, while we were visiting local churches and worksites, a man who owned an air conditioning repair business in Memphis dispatched a crew and fixed the AC, and when we returned for dinner that evening, it was actually cold in the building. The kids really didn’t mind the shabbiness of the dorm furniture, and made do. We visited the local Wal-Mart and bought a significant portion of their supply of “Off” for the week. But more than that, the Holy Spirit was at work in lives, and the enthusiasm was contagious. It was like watching a bonfire, seeing those kids light up as the work progressed. It had to be one of the hottest weeks of the summer, punctuated by blazing thunderstorms that just made it more humid. In addition to the mosquitos, at our work site, we battled wasps and boll weevils from the cotton patch just across the road, and one afternoon went home with orange-tinted skin when a crop duster missed the field by about three yards. Nothing hindered the work that God was doing.
The end result was that several of our youth opened up to the Holy Spirit, and changed the direction of their life. The next summer, we had no trouble finding volunteers or funds to go. As a youth pastor, I’d never seen anything that had led youth to that kind of a life-changing experience, nor one that lasted as long. I was hooked. I’ve been to at least one World Changers project every summer since then. In 1999, I signed on as a project coordinator, and for a while did two projects, and one summer three. I have yet to see anything that compares.
That’s the main reason I’m not worried about the schedule changes that came about for projects in 2010. It’s different, it’s a change, and that’s shaken some people up. But the bottom line, from my perspective, is the spiritual impact which results from participating in the project, and the impact of the outreach and ministry for the homeowner who receives the assistance, and their surrounding neighborhood. Those things aren’t going to change just because the schedule does. The national staff has had to roll with the punches, so to speak, and make some adjustments mainly due to budget requirements. The very least we can do is to roll with them, and support them in having to make these difficult decisions. World Changers participants generally come from smaller churches with limited resources for this kind of thing, which is why the cooperative effort works so well. Raising the participant fee was not an option, it certainly would not have been for the youth from my current church. It’s not about you, your comfort, your preferences and your “options.” It never has been. So what are you waiting for? Get your registration in.
We’re looking forward to another great year in Bonne Terre/St. Francois County, Missouri. This will be our third year to have a project, and the community is looking forward to it. If it works out in your schedule, join us.
Most of you are aware that World Changers has gone to an “express” schedule for all of its projects in 2010. There’s been a lot of discussion about the schedule change, the reasons behind it, and the lack of options being offered. Obviously, everyone has an opinion. Here’s mine, from the perspective of someone who has participated in World Changers since 1993. I’ve been a group leader for three different churches over the years, recruiting and bringing over 500 students to projects, and since 1999, serving as a project coordinator for nine projects in Nashville, Tennessee, two going on three in Bonne Terre, Missouri, and one each in Benton, Arkansas and Decatur, Texas. During the course of 25 or so projects, in 16 years, I’ve seen a lot of changes in the program, mostly in response to the comments turned in on the end of project surveys given to youth leaders. From my perspective, most of the change has been positive.
The express schedule, applied to all projects, is a cost-saving measure. I know that many youth leaders would gladly pay more per participant if asked, but I also know there are many churches out there for whom that would not be possible. If we’re honest, in the face of similar circumstances, how many of us would prefer to cut costs instead of to spend more, requiring us to ask for more?
The express schedule format basically moves check-in to Monday afternoon, along with welcome celebration, adult meetings, and evening worship, which will have the “Why We’re Here” evangelism training as its theme. It also includes the first crew chat and crew position training. It’s a tight schedule for the evening, and from a staff perspective, it means crew assignments must be done before the participants arrive. Groups will need to arrive and be checked in by 3:00 p.m. in order to make the schedule work. It also means a four day work week that is basically shortened by four hours, which means crew encouragers and crew chiefs will need to work together to make more efficient use of the time, though for some, it means that there is no midweek break to kill momentum.
Based on prior conversations, the biggest concern raised by most people is the effect the schedule will have on the connections with the local churches. There is no doubt that not having a crew present in Sunday worship, or for Sunday dinner, will be a significant change, since that is a place where World Changers are highly visible and interacting with local church members. It will require some creative thinking on the part of local church leaders and associational coordinators to come up with some creative ways to put the interaction back in the project. Suggestions have been made regarding things that the local church and the crew it is sponsoring can do together, perhaps on a Wednesday evening during the week.
So, there are changes, and they must be weighed against priorities. Here are mine:
- The benefits of World Changers to the participants, particularly the students, who participate.
- The ministry that takes place to the residents, their neighbors, and in the community where they live.
- The opening of evangelistic and ministry opportunities for local churches as a result of the presence of World Changers in various neighborhoods in their community.
Place those needs up against “looking at other options” as a response to the changes that are being made. I know how God has used World Changers to have a spiritual impact in the lives of the students I’ve brought to projects over the years, an impact that has manifested itself in decisions to serve in missions for many students, and to devote their life to serving Jesus by serving others in most cases. I still get emails from kids who went to World Changers with me a dozen years ago or more, telling me the impact the project had on their life. Schedule changes aren’t going to have an effect on that.
Decisions about whether or not to cancel projects due to low registration are made fairly early, before groups commit deposits and make travel arrangements. At this point, the impact of the schedule changes on your group is unknown. But if enough group leaders decide to “look at other options” as a result of it, there will definitely be a negative impact on communities where projects get cancelled. In the Bonne Terre area, World Changers is scheduled to return for a third year in 2010, after local people worked very hard to establish its credibility during its first two years, especially after a previous Christian work camp program abandoned the area after just one year of service. So I have to ask, is undoing a lot of hard groundwork in a local ministry worth the price of expressing disagreement with World Changers leadership over a schedule change, based on personal preference?
Our church called a new Youth pastor in April, and he was informed he would be taking the youth group to Bonne Terre when he signed on. He served as a crew chief, completing a roofing project during the week, and saw the impact World Changers had on the group. After his experience this year, there was no question our group would be back in 2010, schedule change or not. I like having them at the project I coordinate, but that would mean a third year in Bonne Terre, so we are going to Gallup, New Mexico and I’ll do two World Changers next summer, one as a participant. The benefits of this ministry far outweigh my perceived problems with the schedule.
If you come to Bonne Terre, our coordinating team will take very good care of you, and you will have a great experience, but if that doesn’t work out for you, please register for a World Changers project somewhere else, and do it with an open mind and an open heart.
This is God’s work. It’s not about me.
You might think August 1 is a little bit early for registration for World Changers projects, since many participants have still not recovered from their lack of sleep or their hard work. But that is the date that registration opens, and we know that many churches plan ahead. We want you to keep these dates and location in mind:
Bonne Terre, MO All Youth Project July 19-24, 2010
The Bonne Terre project actually covers St. Francois County, and a little bit into the surrounding counties. This past year, we had work sites in Bonne Terre, Desloge, Park Hills, Bismarck, Leadwood, Farmington, Potosi and Irondale. Most sites were within 5-10 minutes drive of the lodging facility, and a few were as far as 15-20 minutes. The project registration reached capacity this year, so if you plan to come, register early!
We work with the East Missouri Action Agency, a community service organization that helps qualify the homeowners and provides part of the funding for the building materials. Several other sources, including churches, businesses and individual contributors, are also involved. The project will be in its third year, and has accumulated a waiting list of needs. The variance in homeowner qualifications and needs in this area means that some of the crews will work at the same site for the week, while others will work for more than one homeowner. Last year, because of need, we also had two worksites requiring two crews, one putting on a roof while the other scraped and painted. It required some delicate balancing, to keep the roofing on one side of the house, while the painters worked on another.
There are a lot of reasons why you should consider bringing your group to Bonne Terre in 2010. We are centrally located in the country, within a days drive of Chicago, Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Wichita, Kansas City, St. Louis, Des Moines, Indianapolis, Detroit and Columbus, and anything inside that circle. Groups which have come from the bordering states, or from inside Missouri have commented on how great it was to have a short ride back home on Saturday after the project. The area is rural, but the cluster of communities that make up the “Mineral Area” has a collective population of about 50,000. The people are great, the project has received a warm welcome. There is a great need for the gospel to be preached in the area, though there are many small churches, there are many, many people living here who do not know Christ as their savior.
We’ve enjoyed excellent lodging facilities during our stays in the area. Though there is no longer a Wednesday afternoon off, there are many places nearby that your youth group can enjoy either prior to, or following, the project.
Email lsaunders@gobc.org for more information, or use the comment section on this blog. You can register for World Changers today at http://world-changers.net under the “leaders” tab. Remember, Bonne Terre, All Youth, July 19-24, 2010!
For project pictures from 2008 and 2009, visit http://wcbonneterre.com.
Shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 11, a silence fell over the halls at the North County Middle School in Desloge, Missouri. After a week of mid-summer activity, during which the building was animated by the presence of 296 World Changers participants, the project was over, and the last two groups, Ratcliffe Cove Baptist Church of Waynesville, North Carolina, and First Baptist Church of Marshall, Texas, departed.
As far as World Changers weeks go, and the standards by which they are often measured, it was a success. All of the work scheduled at the beginning of the week was completed, and about 90% of a job that didn’t get started until Friday was also completed. That involved one of the local supply companies donating vinyl siding in order to improve the appearance of a resident’s home that had also received a new roof. A crew that had gotten a taste of the siding frenzy at a home in Leadwood earlier in the week came over and attached the new material, making the homeowner very, very happy. Once the materials became available, the crew rose to the occasion, even working in some rain to finish as much as they could before the end of the day.
As always, there were a few glitches. Some were anticipated in advance, such as the slow line winding its way down the stairs through the single serving line in the cafeteria. When the decision was made to move the project to the middle school as a result of a schedule conflict, the size of the cafeteria raised concerns, not only with the coordinating team but also with the chef. Limited cold storage and cooking facilities made adjustments difficult, but as always, participants rose to the occasion.
Showers, too were a concern, with 170 male participants, and fewer than 130 females, 30 showers seemed not to be enough. What!? Are you kidding me? What World Changers project would not love to have 20 showers, much less 30. Keeping the ladies happy always makes for a good week, and the guys were good sports about it. There were times when they had to wait in line, and most of the time the water was barely tepid, but there was very little grumbling or griping about it. Rather, there were many stories of situations at other World Changers projects when only a small number of showers were available to both genders, and how enduring such discomfort is a mark of missions-trip maturity. So it is. If that is the case, then most of this year’s 296 participants exhibited a lot of maturity.
At rural projects, depending on the funding sources, it is more difficult to choose work sites with an equal amount of work that will keep a crew busy for the full five days of the project. Smaller communities do not receive community block grant development funds. At our project, we depend on funding from East Missouri Action Agency, a provider of services for low income families in several counties, and they are trying to meet a wide variety of needs for their clients. Other funding comes from local churches, businesses and individuals and in some cases, from homeowners who qualify for low-interest loans from the USDA. The idea is to do as much as possible with the resources on hand. As a result, it is difficult to balance all of the work so that each crew has an approximately equal amount. Homeowners qualify for different kinds of assistance. But as always, World Changers rise to the occasion.
This year, one of the suppliers provided some additional vinyl siding. One of our crews which had become experienced at installing it earlier in the week was called on to put as much of it on a home as quickly as possible beginning on Friday morning and, much to the delight of the homeowner and the construction coordinators, put as much of it as they could on the house beginning on Friday morning. Their original house was done, and they could have complained about having to start a new job on the last day of the project, but instead, while the original crew at the house finished the roof, they worked fast, at times in a drizzle, to get as much of the siding on as they could. By quitting time, 90% of it was done. That’s a great example of the World Changers spirit. All of the rest of the work, by the way, was completed.
Though completing the construction work is a high priority, there is other work that takes place at a World Changers project that is left unfinished. The local churches have some follow up to do in the wake of something like 180 presentations of the gospel, and four salvations. World Changers is an evangelistic ministry that primarily plants seeds. The harvest comes down the road, and the participants who came to St. Francois County this week will likely not be involved in the continuing spiritual work except, perhaps, for praying for it to continue. Lives were touched, the Holy Spirit came in the presence of those participants in whom he indwells, and worlds were changed. Keep praying.
There was also work to be done in the lives of participants who came from each of the church groups involved in the project. God had something planned for you, too. Sometimes we wonder, when we see participants who put more energy into avoiding work, or who resist becoming part of their crew, or who exhibit an uncooperative attitude, why they chose to participate. But for those of us who have been involved in this ministry for any length of time, we know that there is an appointed purpose for their presence. Some of the greatest work I have witnessed is not the completion of a roof, or the miraculous transformation of a house, but the miraculous transformation of a life. Sometimes we can see it taking place, at other times, it is there but it isn’t visible. But I believe in the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, and in the intensity of a World Changers week, with all kinds of things happening around each participant, the Spirit is definitely at work. God moves and individual lives are changed.
For memories of the week, you can go to http://wcbonneterre.com and find the blog and a picture album. Also, there is a facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=244701925296&ref=mf
There are several things, or combination of things, you can do on Wednesday afternoon with your group.
Columbia Park Cookout, Pool and Concert, Park Hills
Beginning around 5:30 p.m., the city pool in Park Hills, located in Columbia Park, will be available to World Changers exclusively. The local Christian motorcycle club will provide hamburgers and hot dogs, and Parallax View, a local Christian band, will provide a concert. All of this is free of charge, and is a good time to get to know your fellow World Changers in a friendly sort of way. Local church youth groups also participate. You can stay as long as the food holds out, the music will end about 9:00. For further information, you can email our associational coordinator, Aaron Radford, at aradford@fbcbismarck.com .
Bonne Terre Mine, Bonne Terre
Bonne Terre was once a lead mining community, and the Bonne Terre mine is an underground labyrinth with a large lake. Tours are limited, so if you want to take your group to the mine, you will need to call them and make arrangements in advance. Their website is http://www.2dive.com/btm.htm .
Bonne Terre Family Fun Center, Bonne Terre
Mini golf, bowling, batting cages, go carts and other fun stuff. Web site http://bonneterrefamilyfuncenter.com/
Movie Theater, Farmington
Website: http://www.kerasotes.com/Home.aspx
Float Trips, Bonne Terre Area
http://www.cherokeelanding.com/
Several groups have asked about float trips. There are several well known landings about 40 minutes from the area, but they are not recommended, due to the crowds there in the summer, and the fact that the atmosphere of floating the river is probably not conducive to a youth group outing. The website above is for a local landing in Bonne Terre which does float trips on the Big River. You would need to make advance reservations, and inquire about their group rates, and whether or not they could accomodate your group during an afternoon, since they request that trips be concluded by dusk.
St. Louis Area Attractions
Website: http://www.stlouisattractions.com/
St. Louis is an hour’s drive. The closest indoor shopping mall to St. Francois County is South County Mall, on I-55 at Lindbergh Blvd. in St. Louis.
The Zoo is great, and closes at 7:00 p.m., which would give you three or four hours to be there, and then go to dinner somewhere. http://www.stlzoo.org/yourvisit/hourspricesdirections.htm
You would probably not be able to get tickets to the train that goes up inside the Gateway Arch in time to get in line that evening, but there are a lot of good eating places next door in Laclede’s Landing, including the Old Spaghetti Factory at 727 N. First Street.
Riverboat Cruises are available, including dinner cruises aboard the Tom Saywer and the Becky Thatcher. Here’s a website http://www.mytravelguide.com/attractions/profile-78224705-United_States_Missouri_St_Louis_Gateway_Riverboat_Cruises.html. If you do a cruise, please note the time of departure and arrival.
State Parks in the Area
Several nearby state parks offer swimming on river beaches, and some interesting attractions. Many of them are within an hours drive of the area.
Lots to do!
Three weeks until the project begins. Here are some things you need to know.
Additions and Drops. A few groups will have some participants added or dropped at the last minute. Please call the Project Coordinator, Lee Saunders, on either Friday or Saturday after you have gathered your group and you know exactly who is and isn’t coming, and let him know if you have any drops or additions. Then get in the van and head out!
Lodging Facility. Remember, even though this is officially the “Bonne Terre” World Changers project, the lodging facility is in Desloge, Missouri, four miles from Bonne Terre, at North County Middle School, on east Chestnut Street. You’ll get a map.
Fourth of July Stuff. Please advise your students that both World Changers policy and Missouri state law forbids the possession or use of fireworks on school premises. In addition, fireworks are prohibited at work sites, and in the vehicles transporting students to and from worksites. This is a safety and liability issue.
We will worship at Sonrise Baptist Church in Bonne Terre on Saturday, July 4th, and after worship, go out on their back parking lot to watch the fireworks display from the city of Bonne Terre.
Wednesday Afternoon Off. If you are planning on taking a tour of the Bonne Terre mine, you need to call and make advance reservations. Space on the tours is limited.
The pool in Park Hills will be open to our group exclusively beginning at 5:30 p.m., and there will be food and drink available in the park ramada nearby. Parallax View, a local Christian band, will also perform. World Changers groups are welcome to participate in this activity.
There is a family fun center in Bonne Terre. You can check out their website here http://bonneterrefamilyfuncenter.com .
St. Louis is an hour’s drive north. There are activities at the riverfront, and in Forest Park, including a world class zoo. If you go to St. Louis, let us know, and make sure you plan to arrive back at the lodging facility by 11:00 p.m.
If you have any questions, email the project coordinator at lsaunders@gobc.org.
The coordinating team of the World Changers project in Bonne Terre, Missouri has been praying for each church coming to the project since we first learned of your registration. We have been planning and preparing for your arrival literally since the last project was winding down in July of 2008, through the registration process, the coordinator retreat in Spartanburg, SC in January, the pre-project visit in April, and now we are at the final deadline for all of the paperwork to be turned in and the final balances paid.
We are expecting the Lord to do great and awesome things among us when we come together as a group on July 4th, and get ready to be servants in Jesus’ name.
Here’s a chance for you and the members of your group to share your prayers and notes of encouragement in advance of the project. Please give this web address to each of your participants, and ask them to leave a comment here as their “online encouragram” to the other participants in their group, and in other groups. You can also share this with your church members, and have them post comments here to encourage those from your group who are participating in the project.
Thank you for coming. We are looking forward to meeting you, and working with you and your group in Bonne Terre next month!
The following items are due by JUNE 1, 2009 for the Bonne Terre World Changers project:
1. Final balance payment to the World Changers office at NAMB in Alpharetta, along with a copy of your roster.
2. Copy of your roster, showing school grade completed, date of birth, gender, etc. of your participants is due to the Project Coordinator Lee Saunders. You can fax this to him at 713-864-5243 or email it (word or PDF preferred) to lsaunders@gobc.org. Please send us the correct spelling of names, since this is the list we will use to make crew assignments and print encouragram envelope labels.
3. Crew Encourager applications are due to the project coordinator Lee Saunders. Please see fax and email addresses above. You can also send them by snail mail at 13935 Oakwood Lane, Sugar Land, TX 77498 or to Garden Oaks Baptist Church, ATTN: Lee Saunders, Associate Pastor, 3206 N. Shepherd Dr., Houston, TX 77018.
We are still in need of both Crew Encouragers and Crew Chiefs.
4. Transportation forms, showing vehicles, capacity and individuals from your group who are eligible to drive them. Please indicate the preferred driver of the vehicle, i.e. if one of your crew chiefs needs to drive your church van because he is carrying his tools with him.
5. Special requests for crew assignments are also due June 1. This would include separating those you think do not need to be on the same crew, youth with special ministry needs who need to be on a crew with a specific adult from your church, husbands and wives you want together (or separate as the case may be).
It is extremely important that you return all of these things to where they belong by June 1 so that we can get everything ready for you at the project when you come through the front door.
If you have not already completed your pre-project training sessions, and your local mission project with your group, please do so soon. Also, please spend some quality time with your participants, adults and youth, in evangelism training prior to coming to the project. As you know, we can’t do extensive evangelism training on Sunday afternoon and we expect your participants to come with adequate training in this area. Some of the worksites in this particular project are funded by the homeowners themselves who are able to buy materials but not able to afford the labor that would be required to work on their home. Many of these individuals are elderly. Some of the worksites have been chosen because the homes are in neighborhoods where there will be lots of ministry opportunities to the neighbors, and in which there are other potential worksites for future projects. So it will be important for your students to come prepared to share their faith.
We are looking forward to working together. Just six weeks from now, you’ll be arriving in Bonne Terre/Desloge.
June 1, 2009
FINAL BALANCE due to the World Changers office. When you send your final balance, you are also to send a roster of your participants. There is a form for doing so. Please make separate lists of boys and girls, include their school grade completed, for adults, date of birth, and send one copy with your final balance. Send a second copy to Lee Saunders, Project Coordinator. You can fax it or mail it, but he needs to receive it within the week. Please make sure it is legible (if you are like me, that means typing it) and that all of your names are spelled correctly, because this is the list we use to make crew assignments.
June 1, 2009
Crew Encourager Applications are due to Lee Saunders, Project Coordinator. I’ve heard from every group that you have adults who are desiring to volunteer in this capacity, but I’ve only received a few applications. It is very important for us to have this paperwork on file, along with the consent for a background check. You can mail them or fax them to me.
Special Requests regarding crew assignments should be received by the project coordinator prior to June 19th. This would include husbands/wives serving together, splitting up particular students such as boyfriend/girlfriend combinations, putting students with special ministry needs on a crew with you or one of your other adults, or other similar requests. We cannot accomodate requests to place specific students together on a crew.
Transportation Forms are due to the project coordinator by June 1. The signature forms to be signed by drivers can be brought with you to the project.
CREW CHIEF APPLICATIONS
If you would like for your church’s crew chiefs to be considered for this year’s project in Bonne Terre, you need to get their applications to Craig Pope, our construction coordinator, this week if possible. Craig is in the process of choosing houses and needs to know what kind of construction skills he has on the way. You can fax your applications to Craig at Sonrise Baptist Church in Bonne Terre, at (573) 358-4302 or mail them c/o Craig Pope, Sonrise Baptist Church, 454 Berry Rd., Bonne Terre, MO 63628.
CREW ENCOURAGER APPLICATIONS
In order for adults from your church to be considered as crew encouragers, the applications must be submitted by June 4. After that date, crew encouragers will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Please fax these to Lee Saunders at (713) 864-5243 or send them to him at 13935 Oakwood Lane, Sugar Land, TX 77498.
We have a full project, and we are anticipating at least 26-27 crews, so we need all the adult help we can get. Also, please note that it is extremely important for the adults who volunteer to serve to complete the paperwork, including references.
PRE-PROJECT VISIT
The Pre-project visit is set for April 24-25. We will tour the lodging facility, look at options for Wednesday afternoon off, look at some of the worksites and answer any and all questions about the project. We are planning to meet at 2:30 p.m. on the 24th at the Super 8 Motel lobby in Bonne Terre, and from there, we will tour the lodging facility at North County Middle School in Desloge. We will have a general meeting at dinner that evening. Saturday morning, we will meet in the hotel lobby at 8:30 for a tour of some of the worksites around the area. We will adjourn and you can head home around noon. If you have not already done so, you need to contact the Super 8 in Bonne Terre to make arrangements for a room in the World Changers/Lee Saunders block of rooms at our negotiated rate.
TRANSPORTATION
We need your vans and busses! You will receive a transportation form in the mail from me soon. I need to know the vehicles you are planning to bring (including those belonging to Crew Chiefs who are coming) and who is either on the insurance, or has a license to drive them. We will use the vehicles to transport crews from the lodging facility to the worksite. Please return the form as soon as possible after you receive it. It is important to make sure that the crew assignments are done prior to your arrival at the project.
Thank you for your help!
