
Special Ministry Needs Please help us pray for these needs to be met! Monthly Support for Gospel Light Baptist Mission Monthly Personal Support for Bro. Van's Evangelism Prayer for the families and children of Gospel Light Baptist Mission Additional Meetings and open doors for Bro. Van's Evangelism During the month of March until the second week of June each year we raise money to send our kids to camp. See our Gospel Light Baptist Mission Church page for more details during this time! Emergency Need (Posted October 19, 2008): [FINAL UPDATE - POSTED 05-10-2010: I thought I had already posted this, so I'll place it at the top so you will see this first. The helper we had did not work out. We were finally able to get a rebuilt transmission from the original shop we got an estimate from. I was able to get it back in the bus myself, and we got our bus back in service after exactly a year of downtime. Our home church was able to provide our neccesary transportation through many sacrifices and God's grace. Our home church also provided the additional funds to pay this bill. Praise be unto the Lord!] Original Post: We are excited about what God has been doing and what He must have in store, because Satan has been fighting us heavily over the past few weeks. After several weeks of toiling with miner repairs on our Mission Church's Bus, we experienced a major breakdown on our 7^th Anniversary Sunday. It appears the transmission has gone out and as of this posting it is sitting on the side of a country road. Our Home church has provided the funds for our minor repairs, but this will be a major expence. It appears our options will include having the transmission repaired/rebuilt, replacing it with a used transmission, or replacing the bus. Other than this condition, this is a good solid bus with relatively low miles. It is a 65 passenger 1987 model International with 130K miles. Please pray about this need and if you can be of any assistance, please contact us! Update: (Oct. 20) We were able to get the bus towed to our place for $175 and we have been given an estimate of about $1,200 to rebuild the AT545 Allison transmission. A Member of our home church has offered to help me (or I will help him) remove the transmission and take it to the shop. Due to his schedule and my own itenerary, this may take a couple of weeks to accomplish. Update: (Oct. 22) We need to raise the $1,200 mentioned above during the next week or so. We do not have the funds available to us without help from God's people. We are depending on God to supply this need, so if He wants to use you in this area, please contact us ASAP! We have had about $100 promised so far. Update: (Nov. 5) We have received around $200 toward this repair and we desperately need the rest soon. Our effots are drastically hindered with our bus out of service! Update: (Nov. 13) The Transmission has been removed from our bus and the church member who is helping with this feels like he may be able to repair the parts that broke without a complete rebuild. This may be possible for less than $500 and we have received around $300 so far. If this partial repair is sufficient and this is all the cost, we only need a little more. If the Lord has blessed you and leads you to help with any of these needs, please contact Bro. Van at vanb@mindspring.com or call his cell phone at (706)585-2026.

Special Ministry Needs
Please help us pray for these needs to be met!

Monthly Support for Gospel Light Baptist Mission
Monthly Personal Support for Bro. Van's Evangelism
Prayer for the families and children of Gospel Light Baptist Mission
Additional Meetings and open doors for Bro. Van's Evangelism
During the month of March until the second week of June each year we raise money to send our kids to camp. See our Gospel Light Baptist Mission Church page for more details during this time!
Emergency Need (Posted October 19, 2008):
[FINAL UPDATE - POSTED 05-10-2010: I thought I had already posted this, so I'll place it at the top so you will see this first. The helper we had did not work out. We were finally able to get a rebuilt transmission from the original shop we got an estimate from. I was able to get it back in the bus myself, and we got our bus back in service after exactly a year of downtime. Our home church was able to provide our neccesary transportation through many sacrifices and God's grace. Our home church also provided the additional funds to pay this bill. Praise be unto the Lord!]
Original Post: We are excited about what God has been doing and what He must have in store, because Satan has been fighting us heavily over the past few weeks. After several weeks of toiling with miner repairs on our Mission Church's Bus, we experienced a major breakdown on our 7^th Anniversary Sunday. It appears the transmission has gone out and as of this posting it is sitting on the side of a country road. Our Home church has provided the funds for our minor repairs, but this will be a major expence. It appears our options will include having the transmission repaired/rebuilt, replacing it with a used transmission, or replacing the bus. Other than this condition, this is a good solid bus with relatively low miles. It is a 65 passenger 1987 model International with 130K miles.
Please pray about this need and if you can be of any assistance, please contact us!
Update: (Oct. 20) We were able to get the bus towed to our place for $175 and we have been given an estimate of about $1,200 to rebuild the AT545 Allison transmission. A Member of our home church has offered to help me (or I will help him) remove the transmission and take it to the shop. Due to his schedule and my own itenerary, this may take a couple of weeks to accomplish.
Update: (Oct. 22) We need to raise the $1,200 mentioned above during the next week or so. We do not have the funds available to us without help from God's people. We are depending on God to supply this need, so if He wants to use you in this area, please contact us ASAP! We have had about $100 promised so far.
Update: (Nov. 5) We have received around $200 toward this repair and we desperately need the rest soon. Our effots are drastically hindered with our bus out of service!
Update: (Nov. 13) The Transmission has been removed from our bus and the church member who is helping with this feels like he may be able to repair the parts that broke without a complete rebuild. This may be possible for less than $500 and we have received around $300 so far. If this partial repair is sufficient and this is all the cost, we only need a little more.

If the Lord has blessed you and leads you to help with any of these needs, please contact Bro. Van at vanb@mindspring.com or call his cell phone at (706)585-2026.

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