News
ICM Board Member to Head Virginia Chamber of Commerce
RICHMOND, VA - The Virginia Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that the Honorable Barry E. DuVal has been selected as the next President and CEO of the organization. Mr. DuVal, an International Cooperating Ministries Board Member, succeeds Hugh D. Keogh who has led the organization since 1992. Mr. Keogh will retire on June 30, 2010.
ICM Works With Doctors & Support Staff For Haiti Relief
International Cooperating Ministries Works With Doctors and Support Staff to Provide Much Needed Medical Services in Haiti:
ICM Medical Outreach to Haiti
On Jan. 29, 2010, in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that injured hundreds of thousands of people, ICM sponsored a team of 16 doctors and medical support staff from Richmond, Va., who traveled to Port-au-Prince to provide much-needed medical services to Haitian earthquake victims. The team returned to the U. S. on February 7.
Haiti Relief Effort Update
[Editor’s Note: The following is a letter from a pastor at an ICM partner church in Haiti—republished from their Web site—describing the church’s ongoing outreach, the delivery of food and supplies to earthquake victims. The update provides good news that more victims in several locations are receiving aid though the work of this partner church.]
Update Maribel Delgado January 19
FROM Maribel Delgado, ICM’s Dominican Republic Project Coordinator for Church Construction and Mini Bible College Distribution
Haiti Food Relief Effort
[Editor’s Note: The following is a letter from a pastor at an ICM partner church in Haiti—republished from their Web site—describing the church’s initial outreach, the delivery of food and supplies to earthquake victims. While these outreach efforts are encouraging, be advised that the letter also presents the severity and magnitude of Haitians’ plight in detail.]
Haiti Earthquake
HAMPTON, Va., Jan. 14, 2010 – International Cooperating Ministries (ICM) has confirmed that none of the 28 completed ministry-sponsored “mother” churches in the western and northern regions of Haiti have been adversely affected by the recent devastating earthquake, and that these churches are standing ready to assist quake victims from other parts of the island nation that have been ravaged by the initial quake and subsequent aftershocks.