Bear stew served

18.05.12

Guests at the annual Wild Game Dinner got a chance to taste bear stew and see the mounted bear that they ate at East Commerce Baptist Church on Saturday night.

There were 320 people at the dinner; 277 of whom were guests and not members of the church that makes no bones - bear bones or otherwise - that there's a religious purpose mixed with a culinary adventure like eating bear meat.

"It's great," says Mike Adams, the leader of the annual dinner organized by the church's Wild Game Ministry. "It's got a little stronger taste than beef. The texture of the meat is similar."

John Barron, one of the instructors at Spot Lowe Vocational Center, killed the bear and had it mounted, Adams said. The stuffed bear was where folks wanted to be photographed that night; an opportunity taken by MCHS wildlife management instructor Brent Johns took while holding a knife at the bear.

Kevin McGehee, the youth director at the church, started the dinner and has handed that ministry's

Source: Marshall County Tribune