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Warm Nights - temporary shelter for the homeless. Village Baptist cooperates with other churches in Prince Georges County to provide food and shelter for some of the homeless. For one week during each winter, the Village fellowship hall becomes a temporary shelter. Click HERE for a newspaper story about this program. |
The Children of Mine Shoebox Ministry is an annual project at Village. The shoeboxes are collected during the year, then decorated and filled with gifts for disadvantaged youth in the Washington area. In recent years, Villagers have delivered more than 100 boxes to the Children of Mine program. |
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Village collects food regularly for the Bowie Interfaith Pantry and Emergency Aid Fund, which helps those in need in our local community. |
On Communion Sundays, Village collects fresh produce and delivers it to this group. |
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Habitat for Humanity is another Village volunteer project, regularly providing Villagers a chance to help with a local service project. |
 On Super Bowl Sunday, a large soup pot is available for Villagers to make donations to the Souper Bowl of Caring. The local program provides food for those in need in the greater Washington area. |
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The DC Baptist
Convention Village is an active cooperating church
with the DC Baptist Convention. Founded in
1801, the District of Columbia Baptist Convention
(DCBC) consists of 150 churches in the District of
Columbia, Maryland, and
Northern Virginia, and is affiliated with the
American Baptist Churches USA,
the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Progressive
National Baptist
Convention. DCBC is committed to strengthening our
member churches to
advance God’s kingdom. We strive to support our
member churches by providing
ministry resources and opportunities for networking,
fellowship and training,
and by undergirding their programs and activities. |
Village regularly joins other individual local programs such as the Walk for the Homeless. |
