A $50,000 matching grant from the Edwin Rollison Home Mission Fund has been presented to First Baptist Church Chalmette.
CHALMETTE – A $50,000 matching grant from the Edwin Rollison Home Mission Fund has been presented to First Baptist Church Chalmette.
The fund, named after Mrs. Edwin Rollison, is providing assistance to several ongoing church construction projects throughout Louisiana.
Linda Norris, one of the three trustees for the Edwin Rollison Home Mission Fund and a member of Brookwood Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., heard about FBC-Chalmette through Lawrence Corley, one of the lay leaders for Builders For Christ, one of the largest professional lay ministries in the nation.
A team was assembled from Brookwood Baptist Church and presently, they are helping with the reconstruction of FBC-Chalmette’s sanctuary which will seat 300.
When finished, the two-story, 23,000 square-foot building will use its pre-school area as the first day care in the area to open after Hurricane Katrina.
Anyone of any church desiring to participate in this rebuilding program, should have their checks made out to FBC-Chalmette, and include the words ‘matching grant’ in the memo section of their checks. Once checks total $10,000 FBC will apply for the matching grant.