Florida Baptist Children’s Homes
Strengthens Orphan Care in Haiti
Setting up tents, moving rubble, and distributing food in Haiti were not part of the regular duties of Eron Green, who serves as the central division administrator for the Florida Baptist Children’s Homes. Green was one of six administrative staff from the Children’s Homes that took a week off from their regular duties to travel to Haiti in order to help improve the level of care at the Good Rest Mission orphanage along with several orphanages in the Port-au-Prince area. CLICK HERE to read more.
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Pictured are some of the children at the Good Rest Mission orphanage in Haiti where staff from the Florida Baptist Children’s Homes helped put up temporary shelters and provided training to orphanage workers. |
Eagle Scout builds fence
for the Jacksonville campus
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| Joseph Vaughn built a 325-foot fence on the Jacksonville campus for his Eagle Scout project. |
Joseph Vaughn, in the process of becoming an Eagle Scout, provided the Florida Baptist Children’s Homes’ Jacksonville campus a much-needed fence.
The 57-acre Jacksonville campus includes pastures where the children ride horses. The job of replacing the old wire fence had taken a back seat to other maintenance projects for the 14 buildings and grounds on the campus.
“We had wanted to get this done for a while, and we are so grateful for volunteers like Joseph who step in to do what our maintenance crew didn’t have time to do,” said Randy Harrison, administrator for the Jacksonville campus.
Kids Help Kids with their VBS Offering
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Kids at North Hillsborough Baptist Church in Arcadia presented a check in the amount $1,200 to the Florida Baptist Children’s Homes.
The kids raised the money as part of Vacation Bible School (VBS). The more than 50 children participating in the VBS program picked the Children’s Homes because they loved the concept of Kids Helping Kids.
"God worked in a powerful way during our Vacation Bible School. The children were really moved to give sacrificially,” said Pastor Ellis Cross.
Mission Backpack a Great Success!
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Aaron Lague, a 12-year old home school student, drops off backpacks at the Children's Homes' Lakeland campus on the last day of the Mission Backpack campaign. Moody Radio was conducting a live broadcast from the Lakeland campus that morning and interviewed kids and adults as they brought in backpacks. |
Thank you to everyone who helped with our Mission Backpack campaign! We greatly appreciate your support. You
can still donate a backpack online.
CLICK HERE to donate backpacks online.
We need to receive all backpacks at one of our
campus locations no later than Wednesday, August 18.
Thank you for your help!
CLICK HERE to find a
campus location near you.
| Local businesses, groups, and individuals join the Children's Homes Backpack Drive.
Watch the newscast now. |
| Click here to learn how you can help with Mission Backpack including how to donate a backpack and/or hygiene kit online. |
Register for Sound the Call today!
Sound the Call is a statewide pregnancy care center conference for directors, staff and volunteers of Pregnancy Care/Resource Centers and life-affirming ministries. The event is based on the scripture Nehemiah 4:20, “at whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there, and our God will fight for us”. This year's Sound the Call conference is set for October 7-9, 2010 at Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center, near Leesburg. To read more about the conference click here. To register for Sound the Call fill out our Online Registration. |
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Fort Myers Boy Raises Money
for Children’s Malnutrition Center
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Will Wiggins (above)traveled with his family to the Children’s Malnutrition Center last year. The trip made a lasting impression on him. When he returned home he set about raising money for the Center. To date he has raised more than $6,400 |
Will Wiggins had the opportunity to travel with his family on an international mission trip to the Children’s Malnutrition Center in San Juan, Guatemala. The plight of the children made a lasting impression him.
He returned home determined to do more for the Center. He immediately set about raising money for them, and to date has raised more than $6,400.
“It was really sad to see those kids. We get pretty much whatever we want here, and they don’t really have anything at all,” Will said.
CLICK HERE to read more.