{"id":513,"date":"2026-04-23T17:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jfbelievers.com\/community_blogs\/missionsnews\/?p=513"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:12:58","slug":"our-southern-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfbelievers.com\/community_blogs\/missionsnews\/2026\/04\/23\/our-southern-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; our &#8220;southern&#8221; mission."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are currently 19 of us on mission deep in the delta region of Mississippi. We have been helping to build a couple of Missionary Baptist Churches.&nbsp; Our focus has been one particular church in Holmes county&#8230; which we have been told is the poorest county in the United States. The county seat has a mere 1600 population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team arrived in 9 campers after traveling 1000 miles down here in 1 1\/2 days.&nbsp; It feels like it is already July here in mid-April. 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