We were over-"joyed" to finish and dedicate the Joy Multi-purpose Building on 3/16/25!

Almost 100 were in attendance yesterday as we celebrated Joy Building's completion, after only about ten months of construction! Several pastors who have invested much time and prayer into BND took part in the ceremony, as well as a small worship team from our church and the construction company. We were all encouraged by the testimony of JP, one of our community scholars who lived at BND when he was younger, and now is in his last year of college. Many thanks to all our friends who joined us for this "joy"-ous occasion!
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While we still have some cabinets, appliances and furnishings to buy, we will be moving the office, storage area and study area over from Faith to Joy this week. The BND girls will move into the Joy building temporarily while we work towards completing the Love Girls' Home hopefully later this year. We also officially broke ground for the Love building at the ceremony! We are completely and humbly amazed that enough support has come in to allow us to move forward with building a place our girls can also call home.

The first floor of the Joy building will house our offices, study area and conference room, clinic/counseling room, and big kitchen for centralized cooking.  The second floor will serve as a guesthouse and dormitory bed space for staff as needed. It also has a partial rooftop with a laundry area, which can also be used for larger gatherings, or just stargazing :).