Western District volunteers show God’s love during ‘World’s Largest Fish Fry’
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
PARIS — Check the list of unreached people groups from any missions-sending organization, including the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, and you probably won’t find “carnival workers” on the list.
But as far as Jim Twilbeck and the churches of Western District Baptist Association, where he serves as director of missions, are concerned, they meet the criteria because they have little or no access to the gospel.
That’s why that for at least 30 years, volunteers from Western District have ministered to carnival workers who come to Paris each year to work during “The World’s Largest Fish Fry.”
Organizers of the event, first held in 1953 and now sponsored by the Paris-Henry County Jaycees, estimated that more than 11,000 pounds of catfish would be consumed over four days (April 21-24) and about 50,000 hush puppies. [Read more…]