DR Feeding Unit Activated to Assist in Mass Vaccination Event in Richmond

January 21, 2020

Disaster Response Feeding Unit Activated to Assist in Mass Vaccination Event in Richmond

As the Covid-19 vaccine is becoming available to individuals across the Commonwealth of Virginia, Disaster Response (DR) volunteers from the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) are doing their part to take care of the medical and emergency personnel who are administering the immunizations.

Starting Tuesday, January 19, the Henrico County Health Department began a large-scale vaccination clinic for those currently eligible, held at the Richmond Raceway. The clinic will likely operate for at least six to eight weeks, depending upon supply and demand. BGAV’s Disaster Response volunteers are serving meals to the healthcare workers, security and emergency management personnel, and other critical workers on site at the clinic.

For more than 50 years BGAV DR has helped communities in need during times of crisis, working with partners in those communities and local/state government agencies. “Because we have worked closely with local agencies and established ourselves as reliable partners in the past, they trust us to join them for important responses like this one,” explains Glenn Maddox, BGAV’s National Missions Director.

BGAV Executive Board Holds Online Meeting

The Executive Board of the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) met online January 7 to hear updates and conduct routine business for the beginning of 2021.

Topics of discussion included items such as introducing the new Chief Marketing Officer, Gary Long; reviewing the November 2020 annual meeting, which was held entirely online; noting that the 2021 budget and timeline would remain in place as it was for 2020; and looking ahead toward the ways BGAV may adjust some procedures going forward in order to facilitate participation during the remainder of the pandemic and beyond.

The board was informed of the upcoming needs of the Mission Council to present nominees for the Executive Board. Also, it was informed of the president’s responsibility to fill vacancies on Standing Committees, all of which will move forward according to the regular annual schedule this year.

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Nominations Needed for BGAV Boards and Committees

BGAV's Committee on Boards and Committees needs your help in identifying leaders from BGAV churches to participate in the boards of BGAV's agencies and institutions, and on its various standing committees.

Both layleaders and clergy are welcome to serve, with ideal nominees being: