Testimonies

Dr. R. Joe Wilson
Church Growth Ministries-World Mission Builders
431 N. Oakwood
Enid, OK 73703-3711

November 2008

Dear Joe,
I want to thank you and World Mission Builders for your partnership in building our new 11,896 square foot worship facility. Our project was a complete relocation and the guidance and support you provided were indispensible. World Mission Builders helped our building project in three crucial ways.
1. Planning. You consulted with us over the phone on a number of occasions. You encouraged us not to hire an architect, too soon. You connected us to reliable companies for our pews, baptistery, and steeple. You helped design our stage area. Your insight and service saved us thousands of dollars.
2. Building. It was so exciting seeing 50 volunteers from eight different states come to our community to help build the Lord’s church. In the course of about 2 weeks, the entire structure was up and shedding water. People are still amazed at how quickly the building went up. In fact, World Mission Builders set the pace for our project. We were blessed to be holding services in our finished facility four months after the framing began (April 12, 2008 to August 17, 2008).
Not only did we build one church during our frame up week, but we were blessed as a congregation to give World Mission Builders $7,500.00 to build a church in a third world country. It was a special moment to present you a check for a new church building in our Sunday worship gathering. We look forward with anticipation to send a group to Mexico to build the church for which we provided funding.
3. Encouraging. Our congregation and community were blessed by having an influx of Christian servants. The people of our church who served as host homes gained friends they will cherish for a lifetime. Not only did you provide labor for framing, but you brought the love of Christ to our community. The presentations by Dennis Greene, certified addiction counselor, equipped our members to help those enslaved to substance abuse. Thank you for sharing in this great project of building a new facility for the glory of God.

In Christ,

Warren Brosi
Minister
wbrosi@yahoo.com

Vision Christian Church
PO Box 209
Foristell MO 63348
Larry Fry - Minister
(O) 636.327.6728
email - lowelllfry@yahoo.com

October 27, 2006

Dear Fellow Christians,
We just finished two amazing weeks with the World Mission Builders people
outside St. Louis here at our new bulding construction site in Foristell,
Missouri. From the time they arrived the construction amazed the
community as a building rose to be quite suddenly in place. In two weeks,
and during some adverse weather, the first-ever building for Vision
Christian Church was framed and roofed. Ours was in no sense a simple
building, but World Mission Builders was equal to the task. We had multiple
roof lines, some tall walls, and even some steel beams to be placed, but
each phase was met with skill. Even the clean-up crew excelled.

The cost savings for us, compared to contracting these steps of
construction, was huge. WMB made it possible for us to get into a building
this year.

What is more, our congregation benefited from the example and close
fellowship of the many World Mission Builders people. Their obvious desire
to serve the Lord in their labor, their Christian witness, and their generous
efforts left our folks with a keen desire to step up their own level of service
to Christ. Our meal times an down times were just as rewarding to the
church as were the construction times.

May thanks to Joe Wilson and the World Mission Builders volunteers who
helped put Vision Christian Church on the map! I wholeheartedly
recommend Joe and the WMB to any church seeking not only the cost
savings, but the spiritual revival of having WMB come into your church to
do this wonderful ministry.

Yours in Christ,

Larry Fry
minister, Vision Christian Church

Use Me To Build
by Hugh Lee

True or False
1. You're never too old to learn.
2. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
3. It's more blessed to give than receive.

Carol and I, along with Dennis and Ada Greene and Gene and Nancy Stafford, recently traveled to Foristell, Missouri to
participate in a church building project. Dennis and Ada have been to several of these projects, but this was our first. We
can't stop talking about it!

The organization is Church Growth Ministries (CGM), the domestic arm of World Mission Builders, led by Dr. Joe and Fae
Wilson of Enid, Oklahoma. CGM provides physical assistance to Christian Churches/Churches of Christ involved in
building programs.

We traveled to Vision Christian Church, about an hour west of St. Louis. Vision is a five-year old congregation of about
thirty five members. CGM stated the project on a concrete slab, and when the two weeks had passed, there was a
completely framed, wrapped, under-roof house of praise and worship with approximately 4,700 square feet.

As soon as we unpacked, we started working. We framed, put up trusses (many by hand), swept floors, spread straw on
the mud, moved countless piles of materials, put on wall and roof sheathing, put on black paper and shingles, put in
windows, and pulled wire. We did everything necessary to build a building; as Dr. Joe often said, a building for God.

We met and came to really appreciate some incredible people, man of whom were older than us. I had expressed to
Carol my intentions not to get on the roof (it had a 6/12 pitch, but how could I not when I saw men ten years my senior up
there?

We worked with people from New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Also there were twenty-two from Indiana,
including fourteen from Henry County.

We were fed three huge meals a day from a mess tent (sometimes in the rain), had great devotions and prayer times,
sweet fellowship, and some old-time Gospel singing.

We are considering a trip to Nashville, TN in mid-April of 2007 to assist with building an educational wing for the Madison
Christian Church. If you want a life-changing experience, come along. Dr. Joe promised participants a trip tot he Grad
Ole Opery. I guarantee that you will say, "I'm just so proud to be here!"

Answers to true or false: 1. True 2. False 3. True