Anna Anderson | Rocky Mount, N.C
Anna Anderson is a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel serving alongside her husband, LaCount, in northeastern North Carolina. Anna works with Together for Hope, CBF’s rural development coalition, focusing on providing poverty relief and finding more sustainable solutions to systemic poverty.
They do this work in a number of ways, including food distribution, poverty education and partnership with other organizations that are already addressing needs such as housing and tutoring.
Anna and LaCount are involved with a community in eastern North Carolina, Conetoe, in helping to provide resources. Conetoe is commonly called a “food desert,” and they work with the Rev. Richard Joyner and the Conetoe Family Life Center, which seeks to improve the health of the youth and community by increasing access to healthy foods, increasing physical activities and providing access to health services. The goal is to break the cycle of poverty by improving the resources available to families, especially families with children.
Through volunteers, residents, churches and other area organizations, the Center is able to provide healthy foods, resources and education to empower the youth and community. This creates new economic opportunities by engaging the community, restoring sustainable resources and building partnerships and collaboration.
The Andersons are also working with CBF of North Carolina on a home in Conetoe that will become part of the Welcome House Community Network, a growing collaboration of partners working to provide safe, affordable housing for immigrants, refugees and the most vulnerable.
Pray for Welcome House in Conetoe, N.C. Pray that immigrant and refugee families will feel safe and loved.
Pray for affordable housing opportunities for those who are searching and for funds to continue to be available to help those who need housing the most.
Learn more at www.cbf.net/anderson.