Answering the Call
For Sherill and Claudia Calloway answering the call into the full time mission field was a process, a journey, a place to where God brought them, to say "Yes Lord, we will go".
At their age and stage in life, most people would have been preparing for retirement. Together they had built their dream home on 11 acres of farmland and had every “critter” Claudia could think of to raise. As God was working and preparing their hearts they were working hard at honing their skills. Sherill had spent his whole life fixing, making and building things. Claudia had spent hers serving, cooking and taking care of everybody else. Together, they had fought their way through Claudia’s two bouts with cancer and Sherill's six month recovery from a very serious broken leg. Both would be quick to say they would have never made it through any of that without their Lord and Savior. In each circumstance, He strengthened their faith, built their courage and spoke His plan clearly to both of their hearts.
In 2006 they went for short term work with the NC Baptist Men Disaster Relief. When they returned home they shared with the church that God had called them to full time ministry. They sold all that they had, including their farm, and bought an RV. They moved the rest of their stuff, three cats and one dog into that RV and took off to Katrina Ravaged Mississippi the very next spring.
They have been working down in Mississippi ever since. They've brought in volunteers from all over the US to work on the churches, homes and lives that had been torn apart by the storm that had come through three years before. There is still work to be done and Sherill and Claudia will stay until theirs is done. God has been faithful and provided their every need thus far and they have no doubt that He will continue to bless as they continue to work.
Mike "Dunior" Veatch
Mike Veatch came to Moss Point in June 2007 with a youth mission trip, and when Claudia and Sherrill went home for the summer, Mike helped Sherrill with a couple projects. He decided to make this a working for North Mission Builders his ministry and came back to Mississippi in October 2008.
