What happens when you mix 19 college students (and 2 team leaders) who have hearts for serving with an island who welcomes them with a warm embrace? You get a blessing bigger than any of them imagined! Despite some setbacks along the way (like arriving without luggage), the Wesley Foundation from Denton, Texas poured their [...]
Tarpum Bay is a settlement that is south of James Cistern. It is home to one of our Bahamian Board Members, Ken Culmer. Having the opportunity to house groups farther south on the island will make it easier to broaden where we are able to be of assistance.
Flight Instructions:
From Nassau (NAS) to Governor’s Harbour (GHB): [...]
It seems that when most people think of Nassau, their thoughts are geared towards tourists and cruise ships. These are the more “popular” areas of Nassau, but there is also a lot of poverty and need. Thankfully, a group of college students from Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC wanted to serve this specific community in [...]
Bahamas Habitat Fly-In & Help Out weekend to Eleuthera in the Bahamas is scheduled for Thursday, March 5 through Sunday, March 8, 2009
REMINDER! The upcoming Fly-In & Help Out weekend to Eleuthera in the Bahamas is scheduled for Thursday, March 5th through Sunday, March 8th, 2009.
It is not too late (yet!) for interested pilots to [...]
We are getting extremely close to completing one of our on-going projects, the Hatchet Bay Community Center. The building’s original use was for Saint Marks Methodist Church, which was built in the 1840’s. Needless to say, after such a long life, the only thing left standing were some of the walls.
With the sweat, dedication, and [...]
Larry and Elaine Balliet, senior long term volunteers from Maine came to BMH in June of 2008, fresh from a five day United Methodist Volunteers In Mission (UMVIM) orientation in Portland, Oregon. They feel that they represent a new wave of retirees with a social conscience wanting to give back in some way the abundant blessings they have [...]