Wild Game Dinner spreads Gospel in Park Hills By Staff March 22, 2005 PARK HILLS – Following through on one of the outreach strategies being promoted by the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC), First Baptist Church, Park Hills, hosted its 13th annual Wild Game Dinner Feb. 19. During events like the one held at Park Hills, the community is invited to sample all kinds of exotic meat, including deer, beaver, elk, wild boar and fish. Dishes, stews and chilies are made from the meat. Along … [Read more...]
Star Hope Baptist Church gives to HLG’s Carroll Missions Center
Star Hope Baptist Church gives to HLG’s Carroll Missions Center March 22, 2005 Hannibal – Star Hope Baptist Church, Elsberry, recently presented Woodrow Burt of Hannibal-LaGrange College with a donation of more than $11,500 for the newly constructed Carroll Missions Center. The Carroll Missions Center was completed in October of 2004 and serves as the center for recruitment and training of students called to short-term or full-time missions. The center provides training and … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptist Confab of the Deaf marks 50 years
Missouri Baptist Confab of the Deaf marks 50 years By Barbara ShounContributing Writer March 22, 2005 JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Baptist Conference of the Deaf (MBCD) celebrated 50 years of cooperative minis-try when it held its annual meeting March 19 at Memorial Baptist Church here. Approximately 100 people, about half of them deaf, were in attendance as the conference addressed its past, its present, and its future. The occasion was recognized with resolutions by the Missouri … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists Enjoy MBC training for missions
Missouri Baptists enjoy MBC training for missions By Staff March 22, 2005 JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) leaders are pleased with the debut of “Training for a Short-Term Mission Trip,” a one-day conference at the Baptist Building March 11 that helped train about 100 pastors, directors of missions and mission leaders in six different areas of ministry work. MBC Partnership Missions Specialist Norm Howell was delighted by the positive feedback he … [Read more...]
Love characterizes Mizzou Baptist Student Union
Love characterizes Mizzou Baptist Student Union By Allen PalmeriStaff Writer March 22, 2005 COLUMBIA – Spring is in the air at the University of Missouri, where love continues to fill the meetings at the Baptist Student Union (BSU) building on Hitt Street. “As a community, I really feel that this is love right here,” said Adam Krueger, a recent graduate of Missouri who has spent the last 21/2 years attending the BSU. Krueger is a member of First Baptist Church, … [Read more...]
Vibrant partnership continues between Pisgah, Romanians
Vibrant partnership continues between Pisgah, Romanians By Staff March 22, 2005 EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – It has been said that “winter is the summer of the soul.” For the people of far northeastern Romania, the cold temperatures of winter provide the backdrop for the warm breeze of the Holy Spirit to melt hearts and change lives. “It’s not at all the way we would do it in this country, but in the northeast corner of Romania, the harsh winters cause people to be less … [Read more...]
Memorial Chruch hosts Global Impact Confab
Memorial Church hosts Global Impact Confab By Barbara ShounContributing Writer March 22, 2005 JEFFERSON CITY — God had a larger plan in the works when Niki Hughes moved from West Monroe, La., to Jefferson City in July 2003 so that her husband, Jay, could take a position as controller for the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC). They specifically asked the Lord to lead them to a church with a heart for missions. He not only complied; He used them to carry out the plan He already had in … [Read more...]
MBC church planting points toward Acts 1:8 conference May 23-24
MBC church planting points toward Acts 1:8 conference May 23-24 By Allen PalmeriStaff Writer March 22, 2005 JEFFERSON CITY – If the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) church planting department is going to reach the goal of planting 100 new works in 2005, it will do so in accordance with Acts 1:8. As a statement of that commitment, an Acts 1:8 Global Missions Connection conference will be held at First Baptist Church, O’Fallon, May 23-24. “The idea of an Acts 1:8 strategy … [Read more...]
Founders Conference at 1st St. Peters focuses on sufficiency of Scripture
Founders Conference at 1st St. Peters focuses on sufficiency of Scripture By Allen PalmeriStaff Writer March 22, 2005 ST. PETERS – The Southern Baptist Founders Conference Midwest experienced a large increase in attendance March 8-9, continuing a three-year upward trend where participation has more than doubled. There were 173 registrants this year at First Baptist Church, St. Peters, up from 105 last year and 80 in 2003. James White, director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a … [Read more...]
Cloning ban bill losing momentum as April debate, possible vote nears
Cloning ban bill losing momentum as April debate, possible vote nears MBC lobbies for pro-life position By Allen PalmeriStaff Writer March 22, 2005 JEFFERSON CITY – Frustration continues to mount among pro-life representatives, senators and lobbyists who see legislation to ban embryonic stem cell research/human cloning languishing in the General Assembly. Senators hope to debate Senate Bill 160 the first full week of April, but some pro-life representatives are already trying to take … [Read more...]
‘Jessica’s Law’ moving through Legislature
‘Jessica’s Law’ moving through Legislature By Allen PalmeriStaff Writer March 22, 2005 JEFFERSON CITY – Senate Bill 37, “Jessica’s Law,” has cleared committee and is positioned to be approved by the full Senate thanks to the work of Sen. Gary Nodler, R-Joplin, the sponsor, and Sen. Matt Bartle, R-Lee’s Summit, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Jessica’s Law” would make first-degree involuntary manslaughter in … [Read more...]
A fathomless family tragedy
A fathomless family tragedy Joplin community healing after deaths of child, grandpa By Allen PalmeriStaff Writer March 22, 2005 JOPLIN – On July 30, 2004, a drunk driver killed 69-year-old James Dodson and his 7-year-old granddaughter, Jessica Mann, as they were coming back from their mailbox along Missouri Highway 86. “Jim bent over to talk to her and was holding her hand when they were hit,” said Mike Mann, a member of First Baptist Church, Joplin, who broke down several … [Read more...]
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