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Messiah collaboratory
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messiah collaboratory

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    messiah collaboratory

    The community is invited to join the efforts of FIA and Messiah College by providing financial support, donating construction materials, or taking part in a short-term work trip. Teams of short-term volunteers are already slated for 2019 and beyond. The scope of the project will require approximately $435,000 and five phases to complete. Since 2017, The Collaboratory at Messiah College has partnered with FIA to secure a source of water in a high mountain spring that produces 48 gallons per minute, enough to meet the needs of thousands of villagers nearby. The completion of a 6-kilometer road connecting 19 NiVan villages with schools and a medical clinic in 2011 resulted in faster medical transport and supply delivery, as well as more than 240 villagers coming to know Christ. The NiVan tribal leaders are already familiar with and grateful for FIA's efforts to combine construction projects with the spread of the Gospel. We will not make it through the dry season without help." Please come soon to help my family and my people. The dry season is come, and I cannot catch enough rain water to care for my family. "I hear your organization is a friend to the people of my village," wrote Alani, a NiVan villager. Thomas Soerens visited the region with FIA after learning about the need of the villagers. The latest partnership of FIA and Messiah's Collaboratory will provide clean water through 16 miles of gravity-fed piping to more than 3,500 NiVan people in Vanuatu - covering 30 villages, two clinics, and three schools. "We are pleased to host Messiah's students with engineering projects that apply their learning to solving real-world problems and meeting tangible needs that demonstrate God's love," noted Tim Johnston, FIA's executive director. Phillip Tan also visited the Rama in December 2018 to conduct microbiological and chemical analyses of water sources. Brian Swartz's engineering students worked with FIA to construct a pedestrian bridge above a 20-foot ravine in Rama Cay that prevented access to a proposed medical center and baseball field from the villagers' new hurricane-resistant homes. The initial efforts on this project are slated to eventually relieve the overcrowding and unsanitary conditions of more than 200 families on the tiny island. We see in bigger ways what God is doing in various places around the world."Īs part of this focus, Messiah's engineering students have teamed up with FIA, which has a headquarters located between Elizabethtown and Middletown, to provide more than 1,400 Rama Cay people with a block press to produce structural building blocks for residential housing off the east coast of Nicaragua, as storms and the elements rot wooden huts. This changes our interface with our learning and the application of what we are learning.

    messiah collaboratory

    "(Working with FIA), we have the opportunity to do good projects in various places around the globe. "Our Collaboratory mission statement boils down to two things: changing the world and changing us," shared Flemmens. (FIA) to complete life-changing community transformation projects in various regions around the globe. Two very different worlds collide when The Collaboratory teams up with Friends In Action Intl. In Pennsylvania, Douglas Flemmens, Messiah College's director of The Collaboratory, wraps up preparations for The Collaboratory's Monday night discipleship meeting with students. New Business/Anniversaries/New Servicesĭeep in the interior jungle regions of the tiny South Pacific island of Vanuatu, NiVan villagers gather their jugs to begin the more-than-one-hour hike each way to collect water.














    Messiah collaboratory