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Meet Our Interns: Part 3

Third Lens Ministries would like to introduce our interns. These interns work in all aspects of Third Lens, broken down into three divisions: operations, construction and design, and marketing. These divisions are split into teams. The operations division is made up of the outreach and management teams. The construction and design division has the design team, project team and research team. Our marketing division includes the impact and creative teams. Below are some of our interns. Others are introduced in other posts. Operations Division: Management Team Brianna Wilkerson Accounting Intern Hello! I am Brianna Wilkerson, and I am a senior accounting major with an art minor at Georgia State University. I am currently serving as an accounting intern for Third Lens Ministries. My greatest motivator is finding my purpose in life. Once I graduate, I plan to return to Georgia State to get my Master of Accounting and eventually become a Certified Public Accountant. My … [Read more...] about Meet Our Interns: Part 3

Board of Directors Spotlight: Chris Burch

Chris Burch has been involved with Third Lens Ministries from nearly the beginning of the organization. College friends with Third Lens’ founder, Lee Carol, Burch jumped on board with the new organization relatively quickly.  “Lee founded Third Lens in 2009, and then he told me what he was doing,” Burch said.  “When I heard about it, I told him I wanted to be involved. He knew that I was in construction, and he knew that I had also had a passion for serving the Lord however I could with my time and expertise.” The first trip Burch took with Third Lens was to Honduras in October of 2010. The project was to help Predisan Health Ministries build a clinic in the community of Wasparani, located in an isolated mountain region. “We came in and told them that we were there to help him,” Burch said. “That we were going to be coming back in a few months, and we were going to start construction on this building for them to build a medical clinic. So we called a meeting with … [Read more...] about Board of Directors Spotlight: Chris Burch

Meet Our Interns: Part 2

Third Lens Ministries would like to introduce our interns. These interns work in all aspects of Third Lens, broken down into three divisions: operations, construction and design, and marketing. These divisions are split into teams. The operations division is made up of the outreach and management teams. The construction and design division has the design team, project team and research team. Our marketing division includes the impact and creative teams. Below are some of our interns. Others are introduced in other posts. Construction and Design Division: Project Team Braxton Horne-Lee Project Management Intern Braxton Horne-Lee is a junior at Alabama A&M University majoring in construction management. He hopes to gain knowledge of project management through this internship and is thrilled to be a part of the team. Davis Hambrick Project Management Intern Hi guys, my name is Davis Hambrick, and I am very excited to be serving with Third Lens … [Read more...] about Meet Our Interns: Part 2

Meet Our Interns: Part 1

Third Lens Ministries would like to introduce our interns. These interns work in all aspects of Third Lens, broken down into three divisions: operations, construction and design, and marketing. These divisions are split into teams. The operations division is made up of the outreach and management teams. The construction and design division has the design team, project team and research team. Our marketing division includes the impact and creative teams. Below are some of our interns, with more to be introduced in upcoming posts. Operations Division: Outreach Team Armena Brown Grant Writing Intern Armena is a senior at Kennesaw State University majoring in International Affairs. She has a passion for cultures and languages D’wayne Guice Grant Writing Intern D’Wayne Guice is a police officer and Air Force veteran leveraging multiple years of proven experience in avionics, technical equipment repair and maintenance. D’Wayne has an obtuse educational … [Read more...] about Meet Our Interns: Part 1

Project Spotlight: Blueprint 58

After serving as mentors themselves to two young boys, the Stanleys decided that they wanted to create a way for more kids to receive mentorship and guidance. In 2011 the family moved to the Adair Park neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, and founded their non-profit Blueprint 58. “We had been mentoring two boys and doing some work with kids in the neighborhoods downtown already,” said Becca Stanley, co-founder of Blueprint 58. “And we decided that we really wanted to put in roots somewhere and go deep in a specific neighborhood. So we bought a house, my husband and his dad finished it, renovated it and we moved in and started our mentoring program. So Blueprint 58 is primarily a mentoring and Community Development Program.” Blueprint 58 is community-based mentoring program that serves the Adair Park and Pittsburg neighborhoods. The goal is to have a positive presence in the neighborhood to help foster community development. “So our mission is to transform youth into … [Read more...] about Project Spotlight: Blueprint 58

Project Spotlight: The Exodus Ranch

The Exodus Ranch officially became a non-profit in 2012, but the need to help children appeared years before for Shelley and Joe Tufts. The family moved to Opelika, Alabama in 2005 with four children, their fifth would be born less than a year after they moved. Shelley had been staying at home with her children, but with four in school, she started asking God what she should start doing next. It was at a women’s retreat through her church that God started her on the path that would lead to The Exodus Ranch.  “I went to a women's retreat with our church and met this lady that had been in some programs and stuff with drug recovery and everything,” Tufts said. “ I came back, and several months later, she showed up at my door and asked me if I could watch her little boy. And so we ended up, after some time of trying to help both of them, she ended up asking us if we would take custody of him. So as the years went on, the Lord just brought more and more situations across our … [Read more...] about Project Spotlight: The Exodus Ranch

Project Spotlight: P.E.S.T. Relief International

In 2015, Andrea Hancock officially founded P.E.S.T Relief International, a non-profit with a focus on bringing Pest Management professionals together to provide comfort and relief to orphaned, abused and at-risk youth through safe shelter, nutrition, education, physical and emotional health and spiritual enrichment.  The seeds for the organization were planted when Hancock learned that so many people in the world live in homes that have bed bugs, because they cannot afford to get rid of them. Back in 2004, Hancock had started Mattress Safe, Inc., a company that manufactures mattress covers.  After learning about the people all over the world suffering from bed bug infestations, she began donating mattress covers to various shelters in the United States. In 2012, she went on a mission trip to Honduras, and she brought mattress covers with her to give to three orphanages.  “I started taking mattress protectors to orphanages down in Honduras, and I caught a … [Read more...] about Project Spotlight: P.E.S.T. Relief International

Partner Spotlight: McWhorter School of Building Science

In the fall of 2018, the McWhorter School of Building Science at Auburn University made a change to its curriculum. This change paved the way for a partnership between Third Lens Ministry and Auburn Building Science.  “The Building Science faculty revised our curriculum where we actually have a dedicated, required senior level service learning class in our curriculum,” said Scott Kramer, a professor at the School of Building Science. “So in Building Science, starting in the fall of 2018, every single building science student has to participate in what we call Building Science 4360, which is a senior level class and it's required. It's not an elective like a lot of service learning classes.” The way this ties into Third Lens in that through mutual contacts, Kramer connected with Brian O’Neil, the executive director of Third Lens. The two found that the building science students could provide the construction aspect for the nonprofits that work with Third Lens, and in … [Read more...] about Partner Spotlight: McWhorter School of Building Science