The first annual meeting of the Harvest Investment Group was held on Monday, April 22, 2002, at the Wildwood Restaurant at the Colony Square Hotel, Mid-town, Atlanta. The group had previously voted to make their first annual meeting a special occasion by holding the meeting at a restaurant, rather than at its usual location. The entire Harvest Investment membership was present along with visitors and a guest speaker from the National Association of Investments Clubs (NAIC).

The meeting was held for the following purposes:

To officially elect officers for the year 2002

To consider amending investment agreements

To review investment goals and objectives

    After prayer and the blessing of the food, Al Alford gave opening remarks and a slide presentation on our group’s investments, where we started, and our current investments’ yields. The group has made significant progress. He stated that we had exceeded our year’s goal by a significant margin. The group will decide exactly what changes they will make at their next meeting in order to exceed their current yields. He then introduced our guest speaker for the evening, who was Mr. Billy Williams, Chairman and Founder of the Atlanta Chapter of the NAIC.

   Al Alford initially met Mr. Williams on the Internet, while doing research on investment clubs. After a series of phone calls, emails, and faxes he was able to examine our portfolio and arrange his schedule to be at our first annual meeting. He brought along his lovely wife Virginia and they were both truly a blessing. Mr. Williams has been retired 12 years from his job as a Civil Engineer, and has been on the NAIC board of directors since 1961. He was also president of the Atlanta chapter for 17 years. He is currently a Sunday school teacher at the 1^st Baptist Church of Jonesboro. Virginia Williams, his wife is retired from the Georgia Department of Transportation as an Administrative Assistant to the Director of the Office of Permits and Enforcement. She is presently a Broker with Corley Properties and has been licensed in real estate for 17 years. She has been a NAIC member for 15 years and a Director of the Atlanta Chapter for 11 years. They have two children, Richard and April and three grandsons, Richie, Daniel, and Jarrod, all of whom are members of NAIC.

Mr. Williams gave an excellent presentation on investments. He said that for a group of our size, we were heading in the right direction with the type of investments we had chosen. He told us that the investment club at his church consists of 34 members, who are members of his Sunday School class. At each of their meetings, each member was assigned to do research and give a 3-minute presentation, this way everyone is involved in the process of investments. Mr. Williams concluded by suggesting that perhaps our group may want to diversify a little by investing in a technology or communications company. At Mr. Williams’ invitation, Mr. Alford and Mr. Burns plan to attend a meeting of the NAIC on May 18^th.

After completing our meal, the group elected officers for the 2002-2003 term. The officers chosen are: Al Alford, President, Emmanuel Deas, Vice President, Cynthia Howard, Treasurer, Janis Deas, Secretary and Carol Carter, Assistant Secretary.

The meeting was officially adjourned and the group took pictures.