Meet Your Staff: Rushing Mayes

Pulaski Baptist Association liaison Rushing Mayes is a 25 year old youth pastor who currently resides in the south side of Little Rock.

The son of missionaries, Rushing lived in Brazil for most of his teenage years. While living there God called him into the ministry and, while teens have always been his passion, over time God has allowed that ministry to expand.

He currently serves as the Minister to Students at Bingham Road Baptist Church and he also serves as a Mission/Ministry Coordinator for the Pulaski Baptist Association.

Rushing graduated from Ouachita Baptist University in 2005 with a degree in Theatre Arts and a minor in Business Administration. He is currently engaged to Ashley Jones, a fellow OBU student, and on May 17th of 2008 they will begin their life together.

Rushing would love to hear from you! Email him at rushing82@yahoo.com.

Meet Your Staff: George Brown

George Brown, our agency representative for the Little Rock project, is originally from northern Iowa. He moved to central Arkansas following a 22-year career in the United States Air Force. He has worked for the City of Little Rock since 1989. George currently is the Housing Programs Administrative Assistant in the Department of Housing and Neighborhood Programs. In his position, George is responsible for the development of policies and procedures for housing programs, tracks all open housing rehabilitation cases, and reviews bid proposals for cost reasonableness.

An active deacon at Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Cabot, George co-teaches a 4-year-old Sunday School class with his wife. He drives a church van to pick up elderly and disabled church members for Sunday School and church.

George is the owner/operator of Woodcrafts by George, specializing in wholesale millwork trim pieces.

George would love to hear from your group! His email is gbrown@littlerock.org

Before & After: Prayer Changes Things!

Check out this video made by our project assistant for media, Steve Harwood, showing before and after shots of the 2007 projects in Little Rock:

Pre-Project Schedule for May 2-3

Below is our tentative schedule (subject to change) for the pre-project visit May 2-3. For those not attending, I will plan to post links to photos and video to assist you in promoting the project.

Friday, May 2
2pm Meet in lobby of Wingate Hotel
2:30 Tour city - work sites
4:00 Tour of JA Fair HS
6pm Dinner
8:30 Back to Hotel (free time)

Saturday, May 3
8am Breakfast on your own at hotel
9 Meet in hotel lobby, continue city-work site tour
11 Back to hotel - depart for home

Tornado Sweeps Through Little Rock

Please pray for our World Changers friends and those who were effected by last night's tornado in Little Rock. I'll pass along more information as I get it. Below is a link to an AP news article.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A tornado hit parts of Little Rock and its suburbs Thursday, injuring an unknown number of people while damaging businesses and downing trees and power lines. Read

Check out the Pulaski Baptist Association!

Group Leaders!

You'll want to check out our local Baptist host for the Little Rock World Changers Project: the Pulaski Baptist Association (PBA)!

Danny Johnson, associational missionary, leads the Pulaski association which is affiliated with the Arkansas Baptist State Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention.

The Pulaski Baptist Association is made up of about 70 churches and missions located in southern Pulaski County and surrounding areas, including Saline, Grant and Jefferson counties. PBA churches and missions include African/American, Hispanic, Chinese, as well as predominately Anglo congregations.

Click here to get to meet the staff of the association and to see a map. A list of churches which are a part of the association is located here.

Danny leads churches in the association to embrace God's heart through a comprehensive Acts 1:8 strategy. More details on association ministries are available via this link.

Finally, you can catch up on all the activities of the associations by reading Pulaski association's newsletters.

You may contact Danny directly by calling 501-455-8506 or by email.