Celia Jones 9/15/22 Celia Jones 9/15/22

Ma Ke Alo O: Being Present in Community

The Alma Hunt offering, allowed Make Alo O to pivot from providing community prior to lockdown to delivering one month’s worth of groceries to 500 grandmothers and grandfathers every month.

Celia Jones 9/14/22 Celia Jones 9/14/22

Indigenous Church Planters: Ministering Within Cultural Contexts

Pray for four indigenous church planters we support as they follow God’s call to Be Light in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East.

Celia Jones 6/10/22 Celia Jones 6/10/22

Eastern Shore Partnership Provides SPLASH Camps

In 2018, Virginia Baptists began a partnership on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with Cape Charles Baptist and other local churches. The relationship grew out of Impact Mission Camps and gave churches an opportunity to support ministries on the Eastern Shore.

Celia Jones 8/2/21 Celia Jones 8/2/21

Church Planting Brings Christ to Neighbors Across the U.S.

Through the V3 Movement, BGAV is actively involved in planting churches. Some of the funds from the Alma Hunt State Missions Offering go directly to these efforts as they reach new people and communities with the life-changing love of Jesus Christ.

Celia Jones 7/30/21 Celia Jones 7/30/21

Lifting Communities out of Poverty

BGAV has entered into a long-term community development strategy focused on lifting communities out of extreme poverty. This new partnership will be focused in the Chinandega region of Nicaragua with an organization new to us–Food for the Hungry (FH).

Celia Jones 7/27/21 Celia Jones 7/27/21

Crisis Care at Standing Rock

In the more than 50 years Virginia Baptists have been active in Disaster Response (DR), we’ve learned a lot about the long-term effects of a disaster.

Celia Jones 4/22/21 Celia Jones 4/22/21

New Hope Church Uses State Missions Grant to Support Community’s Students in Virtual School

Because of your gifts to the Alma Hunt Offering for Virginia Missions in 2020, churches were able to meet real needs in real time that arose because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Celia Jones 9/21/20 Celia Jones 9/21/20

Louisa Baptist Church Provides Day Camp with Help from the Alma Hunt Offering

When Louisa County Public Schools reopened for the 2020-21 school year, they did so with students attending two days per week. Louisa Baptist Church opened a day camp to accommodate families needing childcare on the days their children did not attend in-person classes. The Alma Hunt Offering for Virginia Missions grant made it possible to offer scholarships to families whose budgets could not afford childcare, buy supplies, and pay expenses incurred to conduct the day camp.

Celia Jones 9/8/20 Celia Jones 9/8/20

Dan River W.E.E. School Meets Community Needs With Help from the Alma Hunt Offering

Dan River Baptist W.E.E. School is a part of the education and outreach ministries of Dan River Baptist Church in Halifax, VA. Clearly, if children know about Christ and his love, parents also learn about Jesus.

Celia Jones 6/6/19 Celia Jones 6/6/19

Partnering for the Community on the Eastern Shore

Early this year, a team of interested volunteers converged on Cape Charles and shared together their dreams and visions for Northampton County on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Celia Jones 6/3/19 Celia Jones 6/3/19

South Ridge: Planting a Church Together

When my wife, Jenny, and I made the decision together as one to plant South Ridge Church in Fredericksburg, VA, in mid-2016, we knew there was no turning back on what we believed was a call from God.