WEST MONROE – Jeff Palmer, executive director of Baptist Global Response, a non-profit Southern Baptist organization that provides hunger and disaster relief and assists in development projects worldwide, will headline the 2018 Louisiana Baptist Agricultural Missions Fellowship annual meeting.
Scheduled to kick off 9:30 a.m., Jan. 27, at Bethel Baptist Church, West Monroe, the meeting also will include a discussion by Guilherme Prezotti, a program officer for Heifer International in Little Rock, Ark.
Other planned activities include worship and a luncheon.
The Agricultural Development Foundation will hold its winter meeting that afternoon.
The fellowship is the parent organization of the Louisiana Baptist Agricultural Missions Fellowship.
“We are looking forward to gathering with other agriculturally mission-minded colleagues and friends for this annual event,” David Morrison, president of the Louisiana Baptist Agricultural Missions Fellowship, said in a statement via email to the Baptist Message. “The two excellent speakers we are blessed to have will enhance everyone’s interest in helping those who are chronically poor and hungry. The highlight of every annual meeting is being able to consider project proposals from agricultural missionaries and to approve funds for the most worthy projects. In the past two years, our group has provided over $28,000 for projects to help needy people through IMB missionaries in foreign countries.”
Affiliated with the Louisiana Baptist Convention, the Louisiana Baptist Agricultural Missions Fellowship currently supports agricultural mission efforts with the Zapotec Indians of southern Mexico and with people groups in Eastern Europe. The organization also raises funds to support water quality and storage in Haiti.
Membership is $25 annually for individuals or families and $100 each year for churches or other groups. All proceeds go toward agricultural missions efforts on the field. Membership questions and other inquiries should be mailed to: Agricultural Missions Fellowship, P.O. Box 120, Homer, LA 71040.
