Rest For Your Soul (S.E. Roanoke Outreach)
Rest for your soul is a local outreach in Southeast Roanoke city that is led and funded by Buchanans in the Wild. Team members consist of godly men and women from multiple churches in the area. While it is an outreach for the entire community of SER, we work mostly with the homeless, providing them with a meal, hygeine supplies, Bibles, evangelism and prayer. We also have set up a resources page that list varies resources available such as drug rehabilitation facilities, food banks, help with housing, etc..
Access Center for Youth and Children & Calvary Chapel Community Church
Derek and Melissa had the opportunities to go on a mission trip to Manilla to help with the ACYC in Manilla doing building repairs, assist running youth and children programs, distrubuting stuffed backpacks the two of them have been working on for several months, and attend CCCC’s Children’s Christmas Party.
Ukraine Church Renovations
Derek went with a team to to Ukraine to help with renovations to a Calvary Chapel Nizhyn. This included framing, electrical work, an entire roof replacement, and additional construction. Additionally came opporutinities to reach out to youth and special needs orphanages and group homes
Calvary Chapel Danville
Derek and Melissa helped out at Calvary Chapel in Danville Va. During this time they were able to help with the remodeling of a new location, outreaches, witnessing to locals, and training new ministry team members among other things.
Ukraine Shelter Construction
Derek went with a team to to Ukraine just west of Kyiv to help build temporary housing for locals who lost their houses during the war with Russia. While there the team was able to handout 300 mp3 players with the New Testament in Ukrainian on them, witness to locals as well as people they met during the travel, make contacts with local pastors which helped pave the way for future trips from CCL.
Missionary Help
Melissa went to Tbilisi Georgia to help a couple from Calvary Chapel Lynchburg in their ministry. While she was there she taught women and children’s Bible studies, witnessed to the various villages in the area, helped with organization of the food and clothing pantry and helped organize the office.
Church Repairs/Upgrades
We went to Roatan Honduras to help Calvary Chapel Roatan with repairs and upgrades to the church building. We repaired and painted walls in their children’s ministry, wired new lights and ceiling fans, repaired rotten stairs and other repair work that was needed. We also helped train the worship/tech team on how to use the sound equipment, volume control (not everything has to be played as loud as possible) and blending of instruments. The team taught in children’s ministry, witnessed to people in the surrounding community and encouraged the staff and congregation.
Flood Damage Restoration
In June/July 2016 we went to White Sulfur Springs WV to help with clean up from the massive flood that happened on 6/23/16. We were only able to go for a few days but while we were there, we were working to remove dead fish, wet insulation and other debris from the crawl space of an elderly couples house.