Over the holiday season, the MC business organizations held a fundraiser competition to help the Baptist Global Response buy farm animals and supplies for families in rural, agrarian communities. Members from the Accounting Society, Women in Business, the American Marketing Association, Think Tank, the Investment Club, and the Service Club raised more than $3,000. Dean Marcelo Eduardo says, "Our aim is to prepare highly successful business graduates that have the utmost integrity and a great sense of service to others. This project exemplifies that sense of service and the desire to help others.” Service Club president Reid Allen helped members from the organizations set up tables in the school cafeteria and hold activities in Alumni Hall to raise money.
Accounting professor Dr. Billy Morehead and international business professor Dr. Sara Kimmel helped lead students in their efforts to aid the Baptist Global Response and as many families as possible. Baptist Global Response leaders are focused on helping a hurting world. Families going hungry, poverty-stricken people drinking dirty water, and farmers needing better techniques to raise crops or livestock are causes they support. At the same time, they seek to spread the message of Jesus. Poor communities in Central America, South America, and Africa will reap the benefits of the MC donations. Southern Baptist leaders from all walks of life serve on the group’s nine-member board of directors.
This was the first year business students worked together on the Baptist Global Response's agriculture and livestock project. The Accounting Society won the competition of raising the most funds, but it was really a group effort that brought the whole project together. The faculty members are so proud of their business organizations to be able to fundraise for such a great cause. In late January, Jeff Palmer, CEO of Baptist Global Response, came to Mississippi College to meet the faculty and students who helped "buy the farm" for families in rural communities, and the students were able to present Jeff with a check for $3,490! In the future, the business school is hoping to have more opportunities for clubs to work together and serve others.
