Mission Wood Duck

Members of Unity Baptist Church are serious about saving souls AND about saving the wood duck population.
Despite brisk, near- freezing February temperatures, Pastor James Huggins along with several deacons, youth and other members of the church located near Jacks Creek, TN, braved chilly water to erect hafl a dozen wood duck nesting boxes.

Danny Goodwin volunteered his carpentry skills to make the nesting boxes out of donated cypress wood. Sportsmen Bobby Lee Coady and Ranny Joe Morris provided the poles needed to raise the nesting boxes to the proper height and a flat-bottom boat to ferry workers and nesting boxes to their destination. Youth Director Bob Wadley enlisted the assistance of Unity youth department members Taylor Ross, Savannah Warren, Katie Warren, and Dustin Warren on an early Saturday morning despite the threat of snow to complete the project. Brad Brower, Gleeman Rhodes, and Scott Warren supervised to ensure that the youth project went smoothly, from driving posts, and taking pictures, to paddling around beaver dams in order to navigate the Jacks Creek Slough.

Dr. Huggins, a bi-vocational pastor who also teaches biology at Union University, keeps his congregation involved in convservation efforts and stewardship of God’s creation as part of his ministry. The 163-year-old Southern Baptist church located in Chester County annually holds a wild game supper, inviting neighbors from the community for fun, food, and fellowship.