Calling all volunteers — Venezuela needs help from Alabama Baptists. At least four opportunities are in desperate need of a commitment from willing Alabama Baptist missions volunteers.
Reggie Quimby, director of global partnerships/volunteers in missions with the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, said the most urgent request is for eight individuals to work with the country’s national pastors conference.
The conference, which will be held at Camp Carabobo in Valencia, will take place July 28-Aug. 4, he said. Noting some initial logistical challenges in planning for the event, Quimby explained the project’s quickly approaching date has left him scrambling for volunteers to take on the project.
While the eight members of the team do not have to be from the same church or association, Quimby said two of the volunteers need to be a pastor and wife combination in order to do a marriage enrichment seminar.
“We also need a person who can relate to singles ministers,” he said. “There are a number of singles ministers in Venezuela.
“The rest of the team will work with the pastors’ children in such activities as Vacation Bible School and backyard Bible clubs,” Quimby said, explaining this is the annual retreat for pastors and their families.
“We had a team lead the effort last year and they are excited about us coming back,” Quimby said, “but right now we are concerned about filling the slots.”
Other requests deal with construction, medical missions and evangelism/refurbishing.
The construction project consists of roofing and putting bars on the windows of a church in Bailadores.
“We need people who can do the construction but also have some financial help from their churches or associations to complete the project,” he noted. “They are really needing a Baptist presence there,” Quimby said. “The pastor, as well as a missionary, will be relating to the project.”
A medical missions team of eight people is needed for a church clinic in Colonial Tovar, known as the alps of Venezuela.
An evangelisms and refurbishing project is awaiting volunteers in San Juaquin.
“These are the most urgent roles needing to be filled,” Quimby said.
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