Marion Association volunteers help build Boaz church, return for dedication

Members from Marion Baptist Association churches, including Director of Missions Keith Box, and Carpenters for Christ were present for the building dedication service at Aurora Missionary Baptist Church, Boaz. The special service celebrated the new structure  which was built during Marion Association’s annual five-day missions trip in 2015.

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The idea for the missions trip began when Box prayed for a location for the annual trip. 

“Asking God for help was the first step,” he said. “Prayer is always first and foremost.” 

Carpenters for Christ, “a brotherhood of men who come together annually in the name of Christ to build churches,” according to the group’s website, helped connect the association to Aurora Missionary Church, whose building was old and in need of tearing down. The work began shortly after.

Associational volunteers were divided into three teams: kitchen, construction and youth and drama. The kitchen team cooked three meals a day for all of the volunteers. The construction team hung Sheetrock and the youth and drama team put on a youth revival for members of the church. Carpenters for Christ volunteers helped with the construction of the church itself, which took one year to complete.

A special moment of the construction was the prayer surrounding the steeple. All of the volunteers laid hands on the steeple and each other and prayed for the church.

During the dedication service, Aurora Missionary Pastor Chad Robertson shared a special sermon and the choir sang special music. 

Box said, “There was a pretty large crowd that was there and able to worship together.”