- Volunteer Bahamas Adventist
- In recent days your new conference administration launched a new initiative known as Volunteer Bahamas Adventist (VBA). As a non- profit venture, VBA is designed to address all capital development needs of our conference inclusive of church, conference and school buildings.
How does it work? Modeled after
Maranatha Flight International, VBA works in tandem with Bahamas Conference
and ASI (Adventist Service Industries) to renovate, construct and
complete
all existing church/conference buildings. In addition, this program seeks to
generate funding. In this respect, it proposes to encourage local churches
and members to invest in the Capital Development Fund seeking to make the
fund healthier (2 million dollars) so that internal funding for all
church/conference related projects will be provided, thus minimizing the
need for external financing and reducing the time to secure funding. There
is no doubt that God's people possess everything necessary to do His work.
God, according to Paul in I Corinthians 12, blesses His church with every
gift but not any one person with all of the gifts. Consequently, those gifts
must be identified, harnessed and tapped for the advancement of God's
kingdom. Additionally, God promises His people that if they obey His statues
and requirements they will be blessed in a significant and noticeable manner
(Duet 28).
Objective: The objective of VBA is to provide skilled, semi-skilled and non-skilled labor for the constructing of all Church, Conference Convention Center and school buildings, where necessary. Also, to facilitate through the Capital Development Fund in conjunction with ASI & UDF funding and repayment (competitive loans) for all projects.
Approach: Based on data collected through the
recruitment drive, persons will be encouraged to devote themselves for a
period 
of time (a few days or a week, or more which could be vacation time
or otherwise). The aim is not to limit the period to a long holiday weekend
but to a period one is prepared to sacrifice. Whatever time a member can
allot will be accepted to provide voluntary labor throughout the year.
Hopefully with many persons signing up enough persons needed for a job or a
phase of a job would be available throughout the year.
Expectation: Given the conviction that God's coming is near, we must do the work assigned to us while it is still day. The time is coming when we will no longer be able to work and money would have lost its value. However, with a concerted effort we can accomplish all of our projects in a reasonable period.
