January 26, 2021 Stories

International

Uruguayan Baptist Convention commits to support Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

The Uruguayan Baptist Convention donated $1,500 to the 2020 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO) for International Missions. The Uruguayan Baptist Convention is comprised of 70 congregations, 35 preaching points and 4,899 Christians.
Ethics

Increased Missouri Baptist presence sought for annual Midwest March for Life, April 14

Organizers are hoping Missouri Baptists show up in force April 14 to help continue the pro-life momentum that is building in the Show Me State.
Columnists

Stop monkeying around, Missouri needs school choice

Nearly a century after the famed Scopes Monkey Trial led to the teaching of evolution in public schools and decades of in-fighting over increasingly liberal curriculums in public schools, a King Kong competitor may be emerging in increasingly conservative Missouri.
Columnists

Driven to gladness

Let His presence fill you and override any errant feelings. Take your counsel from Him as you pray and read His Word. “I will bless the Lord who counsels me—even at night when my thoughts trouble me. I always let the Lord guide me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my whole being rejoices; my body also rests securely” (Psalm 16:7-9 CSB).
Society & Culture

Exposing darkness: Jorgenson details 20 years in Mormonism

While the intense guilt she felt after living 20 years of her life as a Mormon once threatened to overwhelm her, now Michele Jorgenson can clearly see what led her into that life and made her a ‘golden contact’ for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Missouri

Twenty-one saved through Springfield church’s young adult, collegiate ministry

"We just make sure that whatever we’re talking about always ends with the Cross of Jesus Christ.”
National

FBC Diamond pastor to head up Kentucky’s Disaster Relief efforts

Ron Crow is following the call of God to a new place of ministry in Kentucky where he will head up the Kentucky Baptist disaster relief (DR) ministry.  Crow, the pastor of First Baptist Church, Diamond, in southwest Missouri, said he needed the call of God to be clear.
Missouri

Vaccinations begin at Baptist Home

The Baptist Home-Arcadia Valley campus became the first of The Home’s four campuses to offer the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination to residents and staff, Dec. 31.
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House Speaker, committee rally behind foster care, adoption bills

Two bills recently approved by the committee on children and families in the Missouri House of Representatives should help foster parents and encourage adoptions in the state, according to Missouri Baptist Children’s Home President (MBCH) Russell Martin.

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