FLINT – We had 49 churches from 10 states involved with Serve Flint with at least 41 salvations. We hosted a Serve Tour rally on Saturday night where volunteers heard about partnership opportunities from Baptist State Convention of Michigan, Genesee Baptist Association, Disaster Relief, and Send Relief. It is hard to express the excitement and joy from volunteers at the rally in celebration of how God worked. Disaster Relief made lunches for volunteers and cooked Flint coneys for the rally.
QUANTIFIABLES
Churches Involved: 49
Total Projects: 33 (Served – 7 schools, 15 churches, 8 community projects, and 3 bivocational pastors)
Volunteers: 606
People Served: 4,480
Gospel Conversations: 700
Salvations: 41
Construction Hours: +3,050
STORIES
Volunteers partnered with a church that runs around 40 in worship and saw 300 attend a block party with dozens of responses to the gospel.
At many of the projects, volunteers from local churches were partnering together with volunteers from other parts of Michigan and across the country. It was such a joy to see people from different backgrounds working together and having so much fun serving together.
Hub leaders, project leaders, group leaders, and principals all shed tears over the weekend in amazement of how God moved.
One project leader noted “What an awesome experience it was to see what God’s people can do together.”
One pastor commented “Thank you for helping us. We could not have done what we did on the scale we did without your help.”
One church planter wrote, “After the projects got posted online person after person thanked the church for caring for our community. People we have had a relationship with for many years got to see a tangible expression of the love of Jesus in our community.”
One group leader stated “What a great experience it was! Thank you for giving our church family this opportunity to serve other local churches and build relationships with each other and with other believers in Michigan.”
One project leader stated, “I cannot begin to tell you what a blessing it was to talk, listen, laugh and pray with these individuals at the nursing home.”
One volunteer noted “I realized I don't need to become a missionary. I am a missionary.”
In partnership with Sleep in Heavenly Peace, volunteers built 40 beds for children sleeping on the floor.
Volunteers in partnership with local churches gave out blessing bags to a school staff that is “forgotten”, built a pavilion for another school, built two storage sheds for another school, served at a field day with a middle school, and landscaped flower beds, playgrounds and ballfields at another school. One principal kept texting the project manager in disbelief that volunteers would bless their school with such love.
At one school, volunteers were able to pray with teachers and staff in the hallways.
Volunteers blessed nurses and families at hospitals with free ice cream. One nurse accepted the invitation to come to a local church and was saved on Sunday due to this outreach.
Volunteers partnered with local churches for four neighborhood grill walks where at least 10 people were saved.
Volunteers put on a new roof for a church plant, Christ our Hope.
Volunteers remodeled bathrooms, cleaned up around the grounds of the church, and painted parts of the church’s exterior at another church plant, Greater Mount Zion.
Volunteers partnered with Westside Church and hosted a hayride and dance for special needs adults.
Volunteers painted the exterior of a bivocational pastor’s home and another bivocational pastor got new siding on his home.
Volunteers poured a sidewalk, painted the fellowship hall, painted the gym, and fixed outside lights at Eastgate Baptist Church.
Volunteers blessed Carriage Town ministries, a homeless and transitional shelter in Flint, by painting offices and meeting rooms to encourage the staff.
At least two different churches in Flint area are asking about how they can be a part of the SBC and Genesee Baptist Association due to Serve Flint.
DR teams from Michigan, West Virginia, Georgia, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana all partnered in some way to make Serve Flint possible.
The best way to describe Serve Flint is God moved in an exceedingly abundant way and I think all who took part were blessed. I truly believe this weekend was a great example that no act of love is insignificant when King Jesus is involved in it.
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