Welcome to Baptist Builders for Christ

Where We Have Been

Builders for Christ began when Lawrence Corley, an architect from Birmingham, Alabama who is a member of Brookwood Baptist Church, went on a construction mission trip and learned that these projects were often not well planned or financed.

Sometimes the churches hired architects that did not understand Baptist Churches and so did not provide education space or allow for growth. He believed that if the various volunteer teams worked together and worked with the recipient church, to plan the project, insure adequate financing, etc. that there was a greater likelihood of completion and health of the church,.

"A" Team

Following is a list of the churches built by the association of volunteer teams headed by Lawrence Corley, known as the "A" Team.

1981	Adamson Baptist Church	Adamson,	OK	6,000 sf
1982	Naquag Baptist Church	Rutland,	MA	9,600 sf
1983	First Baptist Church	Pewaukee,	WI	10,000 sf
1984	North Park Baptist Church	Bridgeport,	CT	14,000 sf
1985	Norwich Baptist Church	Norwich,	CT	10,000 sf
1986	First Baptist Church	Tolland,	CT	12,000 sf
1987	Northfield Hills Baptist Church	Troy,	MI	9,800 sf
1988	Friendship Baptist Church	Litchfield,	CT	11,000 sf
1989	Crusade Baptist Church	Hazelton,	PA	10,000 sf
1990	Island Pond Baptist Church	Hampstead,	NH	16,000 sf
1991	Trinity Baptist	Mentor,	OH	12,000 sf
1992	Palmer Park Baptist	Frankfort,	IL	12,000 sf
1993	New Covenant Baptist Church	North Berwick,	ME	6,800 sf
1994	Valley Baptist Church	Appleton,	WI	8,000 sf
1995	Grace Baptist Church	Marlboro,	MA	16,000 sf
1996	New Covenant Church	Lincoln,	NE	14,000 sf
1997	First Baptist Church	Waterloo,	IL	20,000 sf
1998	Louisburg Southern Baptist Church	Louisburg,	KS	4,000 sf
	Pearl Street Baptist Church	Paola,	KS	7,000 sf
1999	Island Pond Baptist Church	Hampstead,	NH	12,000 sf
2000	South Coast Community Church	Portland,	ME	8,000 sf
2001	First Baptist Church	Aurora,	OH	20,000 sf
2002	Cedar Street Baptist Church	Holt,	MI	20,000 sf
2003	Redeemer Baptist Church	Aurora,	CO	16,000 sf
2004	First Baptist Church	Manchester,	CT	13,500 sf
2005	Hope Chapel	Sterling,	MA	12,700 sf
2006	Jacob's Well	Eau Claire,	WI	34,000 sf
2007	First Baptist Church	Chalmette,	LA	24,000 sf
2008	Ebenezer Baptist Church	Logan,	OH	12,700 sf
2009	First Southern Baptist Church	Eudora	KS	12,000 sf

"B" Team

By the year 1991 there were so many volunteer teams associated with Builders for Christ that we were able to take on 2 projects each year. Patrick Stout, another architect from Birmingham, and Tom Boone, his fellow church member at Shades Mountain Baptist Church, agreed to lead a group of teams and following is a list of the churches built by the "B" team. That team is now lead by Earl Rhyne, a member of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church.

1992	Highland Crest Baptist Church	Green Bay,	WI	7,500 sf
1993	Lakeside Baptist Church	Battlecreek,	MI	6,500 sf
1994	First Baptist Church	Manteno,	IL	10,000 sf
1995	Korean Baptist Church	Browns Mills,	NJ	10,000 sf
1996	First Baptist Church	Griffith,	IN	6,500 sf
1997	Hanover Baptist Church	Hanover,	IN	6,000 sf
1998	Lincoln Ave. Baptist Church	Jacksonville,	IL	6,500 sf
1999	Island Pond Baptist Church,	Hamstead,	NH	16,000 sf	Assisted
2000	Haitian Baptist Church	Willingboro,	NJ	6,500 sf
2001	Friendship Baptist Church Phase II	Litchfield,	CT	10,000 sf
2002	Hope Baptist Church	Laurel,	MD	12,400 sf
2003	Calvary Baptist Church	Hannibal,	MO	21,000 sf
2004	First Baptist Church	Winfield,	MO	14,500 sf
	Haitian Baptist Church Phase II	Willingboro,	NJ	4,500 sf	Assisted
2005	Sycamore Ridge Community Church	Brookville,	OH	12,000 sf
2006	Jacobs Well	Eau Claire,	WI	34,000 sf	Assisted
2007	First Baptist Church	Chalmette,	LA	24,000 sf	Assisted
	Church Without Walls,	Lafayette,	LA	7,800 sf	Assisted
2008	First Baptist Church	Grove City,	OH	32,000 sf
	First Baptist Church	Miamisburg,	OH	17,000 sf	Assisted
	Sycamore Ridge Phase II	Brookville,	OH	4,500 sf	Assisted
2009	First Baptist Church	Chalmette	LA		Assisted
	First Baptist Church	Monroe	OH	10,312 sf	Assisted
2009-10	Sharon Baptist Church	Ironton	OH	10,600 sf

"C" TEAM

Again the number of volunteer teams grew to the point that we were able to add another project. Dawson Memorial Baptist Church, has been involved with Builders for Christ since 2002 and in 2005 Allan Ivemeyer, a Birmingham contractor and a member of Dawson, agreed to lead a group of teams to Hillsboro, Illinois and built a building for Calvary Baptist Church, in that city. The work of the "C" Team follows.

2005	Calvary Baptist Church	Hillsboro,	IL	16,000 sf
2006	Jacob's Well	Eau Claire,	WI	34,000 sf	Assisted
2007	Church Without Walls	Lafayette,	LA	7,800 sf	Assisted
2008	Valley Baptist Church	Appleton,	WI	8,500 sf
2009	First Baptist Church	Monroe	OH	10,312 sf

Note that all three teams went to Eau Claire, Wisconsin and built a large building for Jacob's Well Church,. We believed that God was leading us to combine forces and build for this Church, which was and is growing very rapidly. They had been meeting in schools and had outgrown all of the schools in the area. Although this was a larger project than we had tackled to this point, by working together, the three teams were able to get the building 95% complete and the congregation was able to move into their new facility by October, 2006, just 6 months after the first team arrived on site.