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Sara Davis

2021 Holiday Campaign Cause Funds Agriculture Seminars in Kenya, Uganda and El Salvador

Thank you for sharing with farmers around the world!


In early 2021, Francis took the attendees of an agriculture conference into the beds of the demonstration farm on the G.O.D. campus in Uganda to illustrate the techniques he was teaching. You can learn more about this conference here.

4 Agriculture Seminars have been held, with 3 more to come before the end of 2021


“Share with Farmers” is one of twelve causes presented in our 2021 Holiday Campaign. In December of 2021, G.O.D. Int’l raised $5,354 to serve farmers locally and internationally who want to grow in knowledge and experience. These funds are being used to produce and share growing seminars based on the work modeled here at Nashville’s Hopewell Farms.


Cooperatives/missionaries* in East Africa have already completed four seminars this year in Kenya and Uganda. Serving 20+ farmers per seminar, they educate local farmers on soil fertility, double digging, composting, harvesting and storage, best practices for each, and more. Cooperatives provide hospitality and use our on-campus farms as a demonstration of what locals can expect to achieve as they implement these practices. There will be two more seminars in East Africa, totaling six, before the end of 2022.


In December, manager of G.O.D. 's demonstration farm in El Salvador, Antonio Mejia, will work with his team there to facilitate a farming workshop as well, which will be the first of many to be offered on our campus there. The farm name is Demosfè which is a joining of two words that, literally translated, mean “demonstration of faith.”


Jameson Parker, farm hand at Hopewell Farms, educates a group of volunteers from the Nashville Preds Foundation that came out for a day of volunteerism. The farm hosts volunteer events and routine volunteer opportunities, as well as regular growing seminars for Nashville locals and the refugee and immigrant communities that we serve at G.O.D. Int’l.

What We Do Here is what we do there


One of our organizational mottos, “what we do here is what we do there,” is illustrated well at Hopewell Farms, where farm manager Geoff Hartnell and his team work every day to test sustainable growing techniques so that they can be transferred to our international regions. They make daily consideration for climate and soil, nutrition and year-round sustainability. The farm is a thriving aspect of our nonprofit, and produces 35,000 pounds per year in produce on an acre of land, supplementing more than 2,000 members of the Nashville community with fresh, locally grown, organic produce.


G.O.D. Int’l Partners with Genovations Media to Produce & Distribute Quality Media for Seminars


By sharing growing seminars that are facilitated here in Nashville with those who are also running demonstration farms abroad, we reduce the amount of work that is necessarily put into the creation of curriculum and agenda for the seminars. This gives our cooperatives abroad more time to focus on advertising and increasing attendance, so that the information can be shared with the maximum number of recipients possible.


Hopewell Farms and G.O.D. Int’l are very thankful to partner with Genovations Media, which generously supports our nonprofit and makes their services available to us so that we can provide high-quality video assets to missionaries around the world. If you would like to support Hopewell Farms and our international sustainable agriculture programs, please visit the Hopewell Farms Website or our Give Now page.


 

*Cooperative is a term that is used by our nonprofit organization to denote those who “cooperate” with us abroad. For our purposes the term is interchangeable with missionary, and you will see this reflected on our website. G.O.D. Int’l has full-time ministry cooperatives/missionaries in East Africa, El Salvador, the Philippines and India.


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