J.D. Payne

J.D. Payne serves as a professor of Christian Ministry at Samford University. Prior to this, he was the pastor for church multiplication with The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, AL. Before that, he served with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and as an Associate Professor of Church Planting and Evangelism at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also directed the Center for North American Missions and Church Planting.

Cultivating Hope

June 4th, 2026

Bringing Life Back to the Soil in Equatorial Guinea

Through the partnership of ANAGEC and EFI, pastors are no longer just surviving. They are learning to generate sustainable food and financial income through their crop yields, transforming their land, their livelihoods, and their communities for the glory of God.