February 27, 2014 Stories

Missouri

God carries Poplar Bluff native through hurdles to plant NYC’s Graffiti 2

“Without Graffiti 2, without Andrew. … I don’t know where I might have ended up,” Shamar says. Shamar Smith has been attending Graffiti 2 Community Ministries’ after-school program for years. Raised in the South Bronx neighborhood of Mott Haven, Shamar is no stranger to the lifestyle and perils that mark the lives of many in the neighborhood; his own brother is already serving out a sentence on Rikers Island, New York’s primary jail complex. Had he not found his safe haven at Graffiti 2, Shamar knows his path might have looked the same.
National

NAMB announces 2015 Send Conference date, location

The North American Mission Board (NAMB) is developing plans for its 2015 Send North America Conference slated for Aug. 3-4 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. This will be the third time NAMB has hosted the conference to encourage, equip and mobilize lay leaders in local congregations to penetrate lostness in North America.
National

Hobby Lobby files brief with Supreme Court

In a case that could reverberate for decades, Hobby Lobby filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Feb. 10 asking the court to protect the religious liberty of the craft chain’s owners in regard to the Health and Human Services (HHS) contraception mandate.
Missouri

Church goes wild

Members and visitors to the First Baptist Church (FBC) of Oakville went wild for the menu at the church’s fifth annual Pioneer Harvest Dinner and Exhibit, Jan. 24. During the dinner, the church served guests with wild appetizers, such as duck rolls and bacon-wrapped venison, as well as entrees of wild turkey, venison stew and chili, pheasant, dove, duck, goose, fish and bison. As they ate, guests could look at wild game exhibits of deer, coyote, turkey and fish.
Missouri

Trusteeship – a sacred trust

National

U.S. Religious liberty on decline

Americans have always had mixed feelings about religious liberty. Most say it’s important, but they don’t always agree how much liberty is enough or too much. That’s the issue at the heart of the upcoming Supreme Court hearings between Hobby Lobby and the Obama Administration over the Health and Human Services (HHS) contraceptive mandate.
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Maps reveal Missouri’s seven most unreached counties

Two maps posted on the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) website reveal that nearly 50 percent of the lost in Missouri live in only seven counties. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 4.5 million people out of the state’s total population of 6 million do not claim to be born again. In 2013, the North American Mission Board (NAMB) created a report “that weighted lostness in each Missouri county based on population.”

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