Representatives from various missions-oriented programs and schools lined the halls of the UC Wednesday for the Fall Missions Fair.

The fair lasted from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and consisted of a variety of Southern Baptist organizations offering summer jobs and internship to students, and two seminaries were offering information on postgraduate studies at their schools.

Some of the organizations that were represented in-clude Appalachian Regional Ministries, Mississippi River Ministry, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Pinecrest Con-ference and Retreat Center, and Southwestern Baptist Theo-logical Seminary. The event was sponsored by the Baptist Collegiate Ministries.

BCM Director Adam Hall commented, “I think it is a great way to get students exposed to the many opportunities for summer jobs and internship. Our goal is exposure.”

Kelly Campbell, coordinator of the Appalachian Regional Ministries said, “One of the best things about having a fair like this is the opportunity to have contact with students in order to get them positions as summer missionaries.”

Campbell stated that most of the work that his organization does is dependent on summer missionaries.

Mississippi River Ministry coordinator Randy Pool said that MRM exists to help those in poverty and gets its mission statement from Deuteronomy 15:11 which reads, “There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be open-handed toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.”