It all began when a group of Men went to the island of Barbados in 2005 on a construction mission trip from a local church in Charlotte, NC. They spent seven days working on a 12,000 square foot building that had been in some phase of construction for 12 years. The project had been worked on periodically by various groups from the United States but they had not made provision to complete the project. This group of men went back to the project several times over the next couple of years and made some progress. After returning from one of these trips founder Joel Davis, felt called to start a ministry that focused on the completion of unfinished projects. Finish the Wall was brought into existence as a 501 (c) 3 in 2007, and takes its name from the story of Nehemiah in the Bible, and his vision to complete the wall around Jerusalem that had fallen into disrepair. In 2008, FTW returned to the island of Barbados with 39 people representing 9 churches from across the eastern US, and saw the project through to completion. Since that time, FTW has completed additional projects, usually one per year, sending 4 separate teams of people, over a 5 week period, to complete a project from beginning to end in Barbados, Trinidad, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras. Future projects are being considered in other countries as well.
