National FFA Convention 2013, Louisville, KY
This year’s National FFA Convention was held at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville will also host the 2014 and 2015 FFA Convention and Expo.
The Fellowship of Christian Farmers was there with their familiar blue and gold setup, inviting the young FFA members in for a short gospel presentation using the wordless walking stick beads.
Ray Dunne, FCFI member, sharing the gospel with two very interested young FFA members
A local farmer, from Louisville, Kentucky, presents the gospel message to FFA members from Utah at the National FFA Convention. He is a farmer who also works as an ag lender at a financial institution. He also is taking classes at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Southern University also is home to the Billy Graham School for Missions and Evangelism. Tim Beougher, a western Kansas farm boy who can still recite the FFA Creed, is the Director of the Billy Graham school. Eight seminary students each day helped staff the FCFI exhibit at the FFA Career Show. It was a tremendous joy to have Southern Seminary students join FCFI in Louisville.
Returning for the second year in a row is the Tanner Whitten tire changing exhibit, simulating a NASCAR pit crew tire change. FFA members took a crack at working in a NASCAR pit crew.
Tanner Whitten pit crew exhibit
View of FCFI exhibit at FFA Convention in Louisville.
The Fellowship of Christian Farmers, International exhibit, October 30-Nov. 1, moved to the Kentucky Fair and Expo Center
in Louisville, Kentucky. Over 57,000 FFA members attended the National FFA Convention. Over 3000 students heard the gospel message and many prayed to receive Jesus Christ as Saviour. The National FFA Convention stays in Louisville another three years.
Group photo of FCFI volunteers at FFA Convention