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2000 2001-2005 2005-2007

Jerry Traister became the national director. 2002 Character Building curriculum started by Mark Redka. 2005 CBM Ministries became Children‘s Bible
Tuckaleechee Inn was purchased for $580,000; 2003 Bear Lodge was built at Tuckaleechee. Ministries
money came from the sale of Wa-Floy. 2004 Ruth White became Innkeeper for Tuckaleechee Inn. 2005 Pine Ridge cabin built for maintenance couple
2006 Jim and Peggy Steele joined national staff in
Office construction was started in May and by the 2004 Tuckaleechee Inn‘s name was changed to maintenance and the office, respec-
end of July the office was moved from Gatlinburg Tuckaleechee Retreat Center (TRC). tively
to Townsend.
2004 Garden Walk (three cabins and five acres adjoining 2007 New Logo for CBM
Steering committee was established for TRC) was purchased for $278,000. 2007 Year four of Character Building
Tuckaleechee Inn. Material curriculum completed

Jerry and Marie Traister Maurice and Norma Tuckaleechee Retreat Center Bear Lodge Deer Lodge at Garden Walk New Logo
Horst, Chambersburg, PA

Bible in the Schools and Lawsuits By Faith

―Would you consider Released Time, for your elementary students here in Marie, as the Innkeeper, asked if she could schedule the use of a building one year
Carter County, in place of the monthly in-school Bible program?‖ This was my in advance for the Lee family reunion. The problem was the building did not exist!
question to the Carter County school superintendent shortly after I began serv- We had land and some money and had planned to build a five bedroom cabin in the
ing as Tennessee‘s interim divisional director. His reply, ―This is the Bible near future. We had even built the road so I told her to go ahead and schedule it. That
belt; our people love CBM.‖ A few months later Carter County received a law- was July 4, 2002. After telling individuals and church groups that Marie scheduled a
suit, and that same year Claiborne County in Tennessee also received a lawsuit building to be used that did not exist, a dear friend from Pennsylvania called and said
both from the A.C.L.U. By 1988 both were settled. Marillyn Adams was put he would panelize the building and provide the windows and outside doors as a gift.
on the stand and pleaded guilty for teaching the Bible to public school children. It would be our job to get it to Tennessee.
As national director it was my job to raise the undisclosed settlement, we were I was so excited to see God provide and we started to build in early spring of 2003.
not permitted to make known the amount of funds needed for the settlement. Volunteers came for nine different weeks and on July 4th one year later the Lee fam-
The LORD provided! ily that had scheduled it arrived at 3:00 in the afternoon for occupancy.
Our first lawsuit was in 1971. It was not until 1990 that the CBM Board ruled God delights to prove Himself.
that all Bible teaching in public schools must end. You may ask, ―Why did it We are so grateful to the 520 volunteers that have done so much for the past 10
take 19 years to move out of the schools?‖ The local authorities in many of the years her at Tuckaleechee Retreat Center. Many have been here year after year to
public schools wanted us to stay, and we wanted to give the Word of God to the help. Maurice Horst served as lead man on the office, Pine Ridge, Deer Lodge, the
boys and girls. Today, CBM is conducting Released Time Bible programs in apartments, and of course, Bear Lodge. His gentle, quiet and willing spirit is typical
Claiborne, Union, Hancock, and Johnson Counties, but Carter County remains of the scores of volunteers that have helped us accomplish much to display God‘s
closed. provision. Some have prayed, some have financially given and some have given their
time and talents. May our Lord bless all who have been obedient to His leading.
Yes, God delights to prove Himself and we are delighted that He chooses to use
us!
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