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Mission Project Opportunities on the campus of
Clear Creek Baptist Bible College
Pineville, KY
Contact Donnie Fox at 606-337-3196
E-mail: dfox@ccbbc.edu
The Courts Apartments
These apartments house our single female students.
There are 4 apartments that make up this complex. The apartments will need
new sheet rock, wiring, kitchen cabinets, carpet, central heat and air, and
painting. It needs re-plumbing and all plumbing is in concrete.
Cost of renovations: $100,000 or $25,000 per apartment.
Due to limited funding, teams
working on this projects will need to make a pre-site visit and provide the
materials/funding.
The Mitchell Apartments
These apartments house our commuter students.
This building has 4
apartments and will need new wiring, plumbing, sheet rock, carpet, paint,
heat and air unit, and will need all new electrical wiring.
Cost of renovations: $100,000 or $25,000 per apartment.
Due to limited funding, teams
working on this projects will need to make a pre-site visit and provide the
materials/funding.
Blacktopping
Our campus roadways are in dire need of resurfacing.
Cost to blacktop campus roadways: $200,000.
Campus Vehicles
Our fleet of campus vehicles averages over 200,000 miles per vehicle and
is 15 years old. Perhaps a church would be willing to donate a Church van
they can no longer use because of the new laws concerning the use of 15
passenger vans. Perhaps you have a good vehicle that you could donate for us
to use as a staff vehicle to use for traveling to represent the college.
The college is also in need of a bucket truck to use for maintenance and
up-keep on wire and cable located on utility poles.
Food
We have an on campus cafeteria that prepares daily meals and would
welcome donations of food to go toward supplying our kitchen with the needed
food items to prepare these meals. We welcome food donations for our student
families also that do not use the cafeteria on a daily basis.
Clothes
Clear Creek would welcome your gift of current clothing items that would
be distributed among our student body and their children. Most of our
students are male ministry students that are in need of good suits.
What has Insurance
to do with Theological Education in Appalachia? Plenty!
The student count has gone up for each of the last four semesters. Housing
for couples and families is near capacity. Everything you want to see happen
is happening at Clear Creek. Still, paying the monthly bills remains a
struggle. Why? It seems there are two key factors involved, and the two are
really unrelated to each other, except for their mutual impact on the
day-to-day operations at Clear Creek. The factors are insurance costs and
tuition. Clear Creek, like the rest of the country, is faced with
astronomical insurance increases. Unlike many other institutions, Clear
Creek has not offset the skyrocketing insurance costs with major tuition
increases. This is a move the leadership of the college has resisted – at
least thus far.
It remains to be seen just how long Clear Creek can continue to offer
education at such low tuition prices. In a listing of ASBCS schools, the
annual tuitions ranged from a low of $4,400.00 to a high of $20,796.00. In
this list of 48 colleges and universities in 16 states, Clear Creek had the
lowest tuition. The tuition at Clear Creek is just over one third of the
average; even other Bible Colleges on the list were considerably higher in
tuition prices. The list also revealed increases from the previous year,
averaging 6.9%. Clear Creek showed an increase of only 1.3%.
No increase at Clear Creek has come even close to what operating costs would
justify. For instance, Clear Creek pays almost $500,000 a year to students
on the workship program. This is an expensive undertaking, but it enables
students to study here who otherwise could not. The school is dedicated to
providing affordable theological education to those called by God into
Christian service.
The way Clear Creek has accomplished this for so long is simple. Men, women,
and organizations have also been called by God into this work. They are
called to help in big and small ways. Some may include Clear Creek in their
will with an estate gift. Others faithfully contribute a few dollars a month
toward operating expenses. God puts it all together, and the ministry goes
on. Would you join us in praying that more people would see the need to
contribute, so we can keep theological education affordable? We believe
people in the mountains of Appalachia deserve the best-trained ministers we
can turn out. Would you help in this effort? Call Donnie Fox at our
toll-free number (1-866-340-3196) or drop him a line at 300 Clear Creek
Road, Pineville, KY 40977 and see how you can help.
Get the Lights of
Jerusalem Burning Again!
By Jay Sulfridge, Director of College Relations, Clear Creek Baptist Bible
College
This
is not a commentary on the current political situation in the Holy Land. It
is not a plea for people to pray for SHALOM YIRUSHALAYIM (the peace of
Jerusalem), though that would be an honorable plea.
This is a quest for someone uniquely gifted to fill an equally unique
missions project need. Though the title of this article veils the real
issue, this is a call for an electronics engineer in Pineville, Kentucky.
One of the great treasures in the physical realm at Clear Creek Baptist
Bible College is a scale model of Jerusalem. Built by a team including Dr.
D.M. Aldridge, Old Testament Professor, Robert Fitts, professor Holzsclaw,
electronics engineer J.C. Bowling, Jr., and others, the model is
approximately eight feet long. In its original state, the model included LED
type lights at key points. The lights were synchronized with a taped
description of the city, so the proper light would show when a point of
interest was explained. The lights no longer work, so the narration is not
useable.
Our model of Jerusalem has been in need of repair far too long. Recently, I
found in our files a script used by Jewell Habermehl when she was a student
here at Clear Creek. The script, used in showing the Jerusalem model,
included an apology for the fact that the electronics no longer worked.
Jewell graduated ten years ago!
A couple of failed attempts toward repair have left many unconnected wires
under the display, and a search for someone to repair it has so far been
unfruitful and now it probably just needs to be redesigned. What we need is
basically for the lights to come on in proper sequence and timing to match
the tape.
Someone reading this E-newsletter knows someone who could help! The need is
not for an electrician, but for someone who can design and build electronic
circuitry, possibly computerized circuitry. The old system operated by beeps
added to the narration on a cassette tape. The beeps triggered lights in the
proper order to fit the narration. Maybe a computer application would be
better; that’s for the designer to decide.
So who out there knows someone skilled in electronics or computer circuitry
who needs a unique mission project? People from all over the country come to
see this model. Who can help get the lights of Jerusalem burning again?
If you can help, contact Jay Sulfridge or Donnie Fox at 606-337-3196 or
email Sulfridge at
jsulfridge@ccbbc.edu
or Fox at
dfox@ccbbc.edu.