District Governor                                                                  International President

      Jim Springer                                                                                  Ray Klinginsmith

      Columbia, Tennessee                                                                    Kirksville, Missouri

Today, Chris Sanders, a former Professional Football Player with the Tennessee Titans is in town with The Baptist Men’s Conference, and will be our guest speaker for the noon program.

Chris is a former All American football wide receiver who was a multi-sport athlete at Ohio State University before playing seven seasons in the NFL. At Ohio State he was a member of the track and field team from 1992 to 1994, where he set the school record in the indoor long jump. That record still stands today. He was also a member of two relay teams that also set Ohio State records.

On the Ohio State football team Sanders was three-year starter at the flanker position. He had 71 career receptions for 1,120 total yards, and was such a strong team contributor that for two years he kept future Biletnikoff-winner Terry Glenn on the second team.

Sanders was selected in the third round by the Houston Oilers in the 1995 Draft. He stayed with that organization for seven years.

In 2005, Sanders began coaching at Christ Presbyterian Academy, a private K-12 school located in Nashville. While there he worked as an assistant coach in both football and track. In 2008, he left CPA and began coaching the wide receivers position and the swim team at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville.

Next week, Union City Baptist Memorial Hospital’s, Administrator and Chief Executive Officer, Brad Parsons will visits with an update on healthcare.

Brad became administrator and CEO of the local hospital in August 2010. He began his career with Baptist as a part of Baptist Golden Triangle’s leadership team in 2008 as an assistant administrator. He supervised the hospital’s radiology, laboratory, rehabilitation services, behavioral health, oncology, material management, hospice and ambulance services. Before coming to Baptist, Parsons served as assistant vice president Decatur General hospital in Decatur, Alabama. He was responsible for various hospital support services including plant operations, environmental services, food services, security and all construction projects. Prior to that, Parsons worked with the Valencia Group, a revenue-cycle management consulting firm in Birmingham Alabama.

A native of Birmingham, Parsons earned a bachelor of science degree from Birmingham Southern College and master of science degrees in both hospital administration and business administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Last week, Global Economy was the topic of a presentation given by Dr. Thomas Payne, Professor of Accounting, Finance, Economics and Political Science at UTM.

Dr. Payne used a power point presentation, to illustrate some astounding facts and some scary predictions. For instance, he displayed a photo of earth from 30,000 miles out in space, dramatizing a flat world, and used the flat world concept to describe the economy today. Along that line, he described the economy in several countries such as Korea, and others which are very economically flat. In other countries, such as China, he described the economy as growing at a fast rate, using a picture of a 60 mile long traffic jam in Beijing to illustrate the fast growing automobile population in that country.