The Many Faces of Louisiana Missions

Week of Prayer for State Missions – September 12-19, 2010

Goal for FBC, Kentwood: $8,000.00

Day 1

New Hope Baptist Church, Jennings

Louis Charrier, Church Planter

Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own understanding; think about Him in all your ways and He will guide you on the right paths.”

In the beginning children were the focus of the ministry that now bears the name New Hope Baptist Church. Trusting in the Lord has led this mission church from those days of teaching in a gutted-out school bus to the completion of a beautiful worship center in late spring 2010.  This church is now home to families, many of them still related to those first children.

Volunteers from several Louisiana churches, working through the Mission Builder program, joined with this church family to build the new worship center. This cooperation maximized the grants from the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering, making this building possible.

As we pray for New Hope and similar mission churches in our state, each one making steady growth, pray specifically for:

• The new pastor and his family who came to the field in Summer 2010;
• A much-needed youth leader to assist in reaching families, discipling and teaching youth;
• Leadership training opportunities; and
• Pastor Charrier and his family as he continues in the multi-tasking ministry of church planting.

In 2009-2010 Louisiana Baptist Mission Builders helped to build 12 new mission churches, involving volunteers from Louisiana and 30 other states.