Ag Missions Fellowship plans its annual meeting

By Karen L. Willoughby, Managing Editor

KENTWOOD – Two leaders with Baptist Global Response and other speakers are to share their eMissionary Jim Wagoner and Pastor Gaspar are shown using agriculture as a tool for evangelism in Oaxaca, Mexico.xpertise during the 2010 annual meeting of the Louisiana Baptist Agricultural Missions Fellowship.

The gathering of people interested in agricultural missions is set to start at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, in the fellowship hall at First Baptist Church in Kentwood, about 35 miles north of Hammond on Interstate-55, and about 15 miles south of McComb, Miss. It is to conclude before 3 p.m.

“We will have a world-class group of speakers, including Jeffrey Palmer, Executive Director of Baptist Global Response, who is stationed in Singapore,” said W. Nelson Philpot, Ph.D., president of the Ag Missions Fellowship. “In addition, Dr. Jim Brown, Vice President-Director of BGR for the Americas, will also be on the program, plus several others who will both inform and inspire us.”