Stories of Impact
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Jordan Gustafson and Dennis Mahoney, of Food for the Hungry, were in Virginia in late September. They visited several churches that are ready to partner with respective communities in the Chinandega region of Nicaragua. Food for the Hungry’s “church-to-community” commitment is a 7-10 year relationship to help graduate a community from extreme poverty. The approach…
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Source of Light Center in Port au Prince, Haiti serves as a home, a school and a community center for the surrounding neighborhoods in Delmas 19. Following the 2010 Earthquake BGAV partnered with the Haitian Baptist Convention, Baptist World Alliance and Hungarian Baptist Aid to support the construction of Source of Light. Since opening day…
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After the devastating earthquake in 2010, as an executive minister of the Haiti Baptist Convention, Ronel Mesidor wrote a 3-step intervention plan that consisted of short, middle and long-term objectives. Part of the long-term objective was to build a community center that would serve as a home for children orphaned by the earthquake. The center…
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Over 900 refugees find themselves living in Vučjak. Very limited help is daily provided to them by the generous people in the Red Cross in Bihać. We were there the past week with our friends from (Virginia) to distribute non food items, hygiene kits and some medical supplies to treat scabies that has infected over…
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