Honoring Andy Spohrer in his Retirement
| 10 May 2010
We honor God when we honor those of His servants who have demonstrated both faithfulness and fruitfulness in service to Christ and His kingdom. So this is an invitation to honor the faithful and effective service of our good friend, Andy Spohrer, by helping a church in Ireland, a country that has been and continues to be so very dear to Andy’s heart. This is what we announced at the northern New England SuperCluster meeting in November as we honored Andy for his service to our CB churches as the East Coast Representative of World Venture.
The young, growing congregation of Carrickmacross Baptist Church is eager to establish Christ’s presence in the population hub of Carrickmacross, Ireland. As the church grew and it became clear the rented facilities they’ve been using for the past 15 years would no longer be adequate, they gave generously and sacrificially to raise over $200,000 to purchase a new ministry center.
After facing various obstacles to earlier offers made on other less desirable facilities, in God’s goodness and great providence on November 30, 2009 He blessed CBC as they finally acquired a beautiful piece of property for only about one quarter of what it had listed for two years ago. The property is a large one-story house on 0.8 acre within walking distance of downtown Carrickmacross. They hope to move into their new facilities on Palm Sunday under the new name of “Woodlands Christian Centre.” Andy and Nancy are planning to attend the dedication service the church is planning in May.While the church had raised sufficient funds to purchase the property and to begin the necessary renovations, significant funds are still needed to bring the renovations to completion and to position the church for effective ministry for the next phase of the advancement of Christ’s kingdom in their community.
Besides Andy and Nancy, we have another CBMissionNortheast connection with the church in Carrickmacross. The World Venture missionaries presently working with the church are Jim and Ann-Elise Grosser, well-known to many of us as the church planter and pastor of Charlton Baptist Church (Charlton, MA) for 25 years.
Donations may be sent to WorldVenture for “Special Projects Account No. 909 - Carrickmacross Evangelism/Ministry/Training Center”. (WorldVenture, 1501 W. Mineral Avenue, Littleton, CO 80120)
- To see some online photo albums of the work in progress click here.
- To visit World Venture’s web page for Jim & Ann-Elise Grosser, click here.
- To see World Venture’s project info. page for the Carrickmacross project click here.
- To visit the Grosser’s own project page, which includes a video introducing their work and the project click here.
