Farm Progress Show 2017 – Decatur, IL

“This is where producers from all over gather, meet, and learn. This is where major manufacturers choose to roll out their newest offerings. This is where Ag families take a break from their daily routine to immerse themselves in the wider Ag community. This is where tradition and business have come together for 65 years. This is where we celebrate agriculture.”

from farmprogressshow.com

Deb Herrold shares the Gospel at the Farm Progress Show

“Farm Progress Show is a 3 day event being held from 29th August to 31st August 2017 at the Decatur-Macon County Fairground in Decatur, United States Of America. This event showcases products like includes farm industry professionals, manufacturers and suppliers of fertilizers, seeds, farm equipments and machineries and livestock and dairy industry professionals etc. in the Agriculture & Forestry, Industrial Products industries.”

On alternate years, the show is in Boone, Iowa.

Fellowship of Christian Farmers exhibit at the Farm Progress Show

The Fellowship tent has always been an oasis for farm show visitors on a hot summer day. This was the first year in many that we did not provide music in the tent. But we do offer shade and a chair, and, more importantly, a Gospel presentation using the Wordless Walking Stick.

Mark Freed sharing the Gospel with some young men at the Farm Progress Show

The format for farm shows includes a tent set up with several circles of chairs. Farm show guests are invited in to receive a free walking stick in exchange for listening to a short presentation of the Gospel using the Wordless Walking Stick. It is always amazing to see what the Lord will do at these farm shows. Visitors are polite and listen intensely to the Gospel presentation, with many accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior.

Farm Show visitors with their new walking sticks

Area Leader Jeff Goss sharing his passion

Rapid Response Coordinator Melvin Bell with some young farmers

Next year’s Farm Progress Show will be held in Boone, Iowa from August 28 to August 30, 2018. The Fellowship of Christian Farmers, International will be there doing what the Lord has commanded:

“But you will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you, and you will be witnesses for Me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)