Africa Director
Ron Bragg was saved in 1969, under the ministry of Pastor J. Harold Smith in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. He attended Bob Jones University and was strongly influenced by Dr. Harold Sightler at the great missions church, Tabernacle Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina. He was accepted as a missionary with BIMI in 1973.
The Lord led Ron and his wife, Donna, to start a work along the edge of the Sahara Desert in the Moslem country of Senegal. 
The first years on the field saw very few converts, but through God's power and the Braggs' faithfulness to their calling, they began to reap a harvest of souls. After sixteen years, the small congregation voted to buy land and begin to build their own church building. The African Baptist Church of Saint Louis, Senegal, continues to this day to be a Gospel witness in a very difficult place.
In June of 1991, Dr. Bragg was asked to take the position of Africa Director for Baptist International Missions, Inc., giving him the responsibility of overseeing around 70 missionaries in 9 countries across the continent of Africa. Eric Bohman came on board as the Assistant Africa Director in 2005. Together, they have traveled widely across the continent of Africa, opening new fields for BIMI, and helping national pastors and missionaries. The BIMI Africa family is now represented in nearly 20 countries in Africa and has over 120 missionaries laboring across the continent.
Ron and Donna Bragg have five married children with families that are actively serving the Lord. They are the proud grandparents of thirteen grandchildren. Their daughter Hannah and her husband Luke Townsley are serving the Lord with their four children as BIMI missionaries in the Dominican Republic.
The Braggs have been used mightily in God's service for nearly forty years with BIMI and continue to be enthusiastic about the future of BIMI in Africa.
