Some days June Estes pinches herself to make sure she isn’t dreaming. As an International Mission Board missionary explorer, she experiences a lot of things she never imagined doing in her lifetime: Like, standing under a string of prayer flags flapping in the wind along a remote hiking path. Or zooming around a noisy city via a bright green rickshaw. Or tears rolling down her cheeks when she finds a group of people who have never heard the name of Jesus Christ.
Missouri
Roby Baptist’s Helping Hands ministry blesses community, shares Christ
For 10 years Roby Baptist has been meeting its small community’s clothing needs through its Helping Hands ministry, a retail store that charges nothing for its items. The expanding ministry just added a food pantry.
National
Two candidates to be nominated for SBC first vice president at 2024 annual meeting
Two pastors, at least, will be nominated this summer to the post of Southern Baptist Convention first vice president, according to recent announcements.
Columns
May is national foster care awareness month
May is foster care awareness month. Do you know much about foster care? Are there opportunities for your church to serve right here in Missouri?
Apologetics
He will judge the nations
The second coming of Jesus is implied in hundreds of Old Testament prophecies that center on future judgment of the world and a coming kingdom of righteousness. Jesus and the New Testament writers elevate these ancient prophecies and apply them to the unfinished but guaranteed future work of the Savior.
Global
Never too young to share God’s Word
Every Sunday, 8-year-old Micah Singerman heard his parents, International Mission Board missionaries Kevin and Victoria Singerman, tell chronological Bible stories in Kampala, Uganda. He then watched the Ugandan believers go out and share the same story with people in their community.
Culture
Missouri Baptist minister, Matt Goodsell, named Capitol Ministry’s Global Director for North America
With a mission to launch ministries in all 50 U.S. states and an already noteworthy record of new ministry plants through successful recruiting, Missouri Baptist pastor, Matt Goodsell, has been named North America global director for Capitol Ministries (CapMin). In this role, Pastor Matt is charged with expanding the ministry by recruiting men to launch new Bible-study based discipleship ministries to political leaders throughout the United States and Canada.