CVBM Day with Affordable Housing Awareness Week

Thank you to all who volunteered for the New Kent build on Thursday, April 23 and Saturday, April 25, 2009, during Central Virginia Baptist Ministries Days!

  CVBM had the unique opportunity to join Affordable Housing Awareness Week and Habitat for Humanity in a building project. We signed up 30 volunteers each day to work on the construction of two houses from 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM.

Additionally, churches volunteered to provide lunches for the Habitat supervisors and volunteers. 

Thank you to the following churches for sending volunteers

 to work at the New Kent or to provide lunches each work day:

Atlee Community Church

Broadus Memorial Baptist Church

Dover Baptist Church

First Baptist Church- Richmond

First Baptist Church - Westpoint

Friendship Baptist Church

Hunton Baptist Church

Lakeside Baptist Church

Mechanicsville Baptist Church

Monument Heights Baptist Church

Pamunkey Baptist Church

Parham Road Baptist Church

Sandston Baptist Church

Tomahawk Baptist Church

Walnut Grove Baptist Church

Please see the "photos" tab for more pictures from these work days in New Kent County. 

***Statistics show that on any given day in the Richmond region, there are at least 1,150 sheltered and unsheltered men, women, and children experiencing homelessness.  Over the course of one year, 4,600 – 6, 900 people experience a crisis that results in homelessness.  We estimate that 500-800 of homeless individuals in a given year are children, and children who experience homelessness have an increased risk of experiencing homelessness as adults. (Statistics provided by Homeward, Dec. 2007 “Ten Year Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in the Richmond Region”). With the current economy, these statistics will likely increase.