Newsletter:

Bountiful Grace Corporation

April 2004

It gives me great pleasure to send you Bountiful Grace’s first newsletter. We will try to post a newsletter every 2-3months to keep you updated as to our activities. If you do not wish to have this emailed to you please reply by return email. Thank you for your support in our efforts.

  1. Bountiful Grace Corporation was established December, 2003. Our Executive Board was organized and officers were elected. We began the process of applying for 501(c)3 charitable status. This application process is well underway with the help of our friendly CPA, Tom Robbins.
  2. BG’s elected officers:

    3. President: Dick McNally

    Vice President: Dan James

    Secretary: John Baggerman

    Treasurer: Doris McNally

  3. BG’s Executive Board Members:

    4. Above Officers and

    Vibert Forsythe

    John Skaggs

    Wes Waltrip

  4. Board Members Dick McNally and Dan James went on a Nicaragua mission trip January 4-11, 2004 with the established charitable group Acts 1:8. Dick and Dan’s goal was to meet with MEFEL (see #6 below) and look into possible charitable activities for our group. The mission team consisted of 13 people from Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina and Maryland. Dick and Dan came home energized and enthusiastic. They presented their findings to BG Executive Board. The board committed to 3 building projects in Nicaragua between 2004 and 2006.
  5. Building Projects:

    6. Buena Vista Church: We have begun sending funds to MEFEL to begin construction of a new church. This will replace the current church which is small and falling down. Approximate cost: $12,000.

    Pueblo Nuevo Grammar School: We are planning to construct a new school to replace the condemned school (sliding down the mountain). This school will service a community of up to 2000.

    Los Mercarcos Grammar School: Like the school above, this mountain village has about 800 people

  6. February 2004:

    7. Dick and Dan gave a formal presentation to about 80 members of our home Episcopal church, The Church of St Michael the Archangel, Lexington, Kentucky. Many of the parishioners have expressed interest in being involved with the group's projects and projected 2 yearly mission trips.

    The Executive Board traveled over the weekend to Athens, Georgia to meet with the group Acts 1:8. This group and its affiliate in Beverly, Kentucky have been going on trips to Nicaragua since 1989. One of the members of the Georgia group, Jim Neal, was actively involved with the forming of the protestant pastor/chaplain’s corps now known as M.E.F.E.L. This chaplain corps formation from the Contra and Sandinista armies is well explained in the Rebel with a Cause (chapter: NO MORE HITLER) by Franklin Graham. Bountiful Grace members own several copies of this uplifting book and we would be happy to loan you one. Our meeting with Acts 1:8 gave us a great deal of information and ideas on how to serve the people of Nicaragua. We may work with them on joint projects or mission teams in the future.

  7. Vibert Forsythe is busy establishing our Web Site. In the very near future, we will post future newsletters, pictures, project information, donation information, and date/sign-up information on future BG mission trips.

    8. www.bountifulgrace.com

  8. May 16, 2004

Bountiful Grace hopes to host a visit and presentation at St Michael’s 9am church service by Cheryl Avery. Cheryl is a extraordinarily dedicated woman from Boston who maintains a small mission at the Managua city dump. Her goal is to assist the hundreds of families that live in the dump and raise their children via what little they can find in the waste of an impoverished country. I will email you information on her trip as it becomes available.

 

 

Peace……. Dan James

 

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