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New Waynesboro Campus Open House
The Baptist Children's Village will celebrate the opening of the Powell-Walley Campus in Waynesboro, Mississippi on Sunday, September 12, 2010 from 2: ... read more
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2010 Back to School Needs
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BCV Featured in MC Alumni Magazine
The Baptist Children's Village ministry was featured in the Beacon, the alumni magazine of Mississippi College. The article updates the alumni on the overall m ... read more
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A Brief History
The Baptist Children's Village admitted the first child to care on May 7, 1897. In The Baptist Record in 1893, Rev. L. S. Foster, pastor in Senatobia, Mississippi, raised the question as to the desirability of establishing a home for orphans. Rev. Foster wrote:
"If this thought is of God He will put it into the heart of some person to send a contribution for this cause."
In December 1893 Mrs. Lou H. Moore of Tillatoba, Mississippi responded:
"With my prayers, I enclose this dollar for the institution. If it finds company enough to effect a movement, you will hear from me again."
After much cultivation of pastors and individuals throughout the state, Rev. Foster moved to Jackson in May of 1897 to accept the first child and position of Superintendent of then, The Baptist Orphanage.
Following his resignation in 1903, Rev. Foster wrote:
"We now bid you an affectionate good-bye?But this is God?s work. He inspired, built and directed. We were simply His instruments."
The Lord has indeed used a great many "instruments" to further His work at The Baptist Children's Village.
During the first years of ministry most of the children were orphans. The major task of yesterday was to provide Christian care and direction, as well as food, clothing and shelter. Mr. Paul N. Nunnery, who served as Executive Director from 1960 until 1990 wrote in his compilation of The Baptist Children's Village history, I Heard the Children Singing, "The survival and usefulness of any service agency is dependent, in large measure, upon its capacity and willingness to change." Swift and dramatic change is exactly what characterized the efforts of this new administration. Some of the most significant changes that still impact the ministry today are:
--Amendment of the corporate charter, changing the name of the agency from Mississippi Baptist Orphanage to The Baptist Children?s Village to more accurately reflect the children we currently serve.
--Admission of children into the public schools.
--Emphasis given to family-style living as children moved from the Woodrow Wilson campus, where children lived in dormitories, to a new campus on Flag Chapel Road. In his 1965 report to the Mississippi Baptist Convention, Paul Nunnery stated,
"A vision became a dream, the dream became a purpose, the purpose became a prayer, the prayer became a reality, as the boys and girls at The Baptist Children'?s Village moved into their sparkling new quarters on Flag Chapel Drive on June 7, 1965."
This family-modeled living continues to be an essential part of residential child care provided by The Baptist Children's Village.
Since those early days, "wars, natural disasters, economic recessions and depressions have beset and sometimes devastated Mississippi society . . ., but literally without even one day's interruption, The Baptist Children's Village has addressed the most basic and essential needs of countless thousands of boys and girls and their families without fee or charge and without monetary support from government at any level."
Post Date: 10/24/2005
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