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Twin Rivers Association, FBC Troy donate RV trailers to families affected by Hurricane Helene

People are living in tents in the mountains of western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. Many were left homeless following floods and landslides resulting from Hurricane Helene last fall. So the First Baptist Church of Troy, Mo., decided to raise funds and buy a used RV travel trailer to give to a family there. The Twin Rivers Baptist Association offered funding to purchase a second trailer, and it has been sent down as well.
Missouri

BF&M 100: The overlooked legacy of a fallen soldier

On this Memorial Day, in the centennial year of the 1925 adoption of The Baptist Faith and Message (BFM), it is appropriate to remember a fallen soldier who left an overlooked legacy on the BFM's message: Captain Sanford Miller Brown, Jr. (1893-1918).
Society & Culture

Memorial Day Flag Relay brings healing, encouragement and Gospel connections

First in Fallujah, Iraq, then in Djibouti, Africa, and finally Mobile, Alabama, the Memorial Day Flag Relay (MDFR) has been bringing encouragement and healing to active-duty servicemen, veterans and their families for 20 years. ... It has also pointed the way to Christ.
Missouri

Missouri Baptist University celebrates 53rd commencement

More than 700 degrees were conferred to the class of 2025 at Missouri Baptist University’s 53rd commencement ceremony on May 6 at the Family Arena in St. Charles, Missouri. The degrees conferred included 363 undergraduate degrees, 243 graduate degrees and 20 doctoral degrees, including degrees that will be completed in summer 2025.
Missouri

Tornado strikes St. Louis, Missouri Baptists quick to respond

The May 16th storm that produced an EF-3 tornado here began in Clayton, the seat of St. Louis County, and ripped a path of destruction a mile wide and eight miles long through north St. Louis city before crossing the Mississippi River. Cara Spencer, the new mayor of St. Louis, described the damage in a press conference. “We have five deaths and more than thirty-six injuries from the storm," she said. "Thousands of people are without power, more than 5,000 buildings have been damaged, and we have downed power lines that are creating hazards.” This devastation was a call to action for Missouri Baptists.
Policy

Missouri lawmakers approve bill allowing school chaplains

Our public schools often allow chaplains after a tragedy has occurred, as there is a recognition that chaplains can provide comfort, hope, and healing. But why must we wait for a tragedy to occur before allowing our students to avail themselves of the services of a chaplain? Why not be proactive? Why not make this resource available to students before a crisis or tragedy strikes? Missouri lawmakers have passed a bill that would make this possible.
Faith

State of the Bible shows U.S. outlier in biblical reverence in ‘secular west’

From a global vantage point unique to its study of the Bible’s impact on U.S. adults, the American Bible Society (ABS) said Americans revere Scripture, faith and church more than others in a geographical cluster described as the “secular west.”
Faith

Glory in resurrection

The glory we experience now as Christ lives in us, and the glory we experience in death as our souls and spirits ascend into heaven, are partial works of glorification. But full glorification for followers of Jesus takes place when he calls our bodies from the grave and gives us incorruptible bodies like the body he bore when he rose from the dead.
National

Thousands of DR volunteers deployed so far this year, more needed

So far this year, at least 5,300 Southern Baptist trained Disaster Relief volunteers have responded to 40 natural disasters across the United States, from wildfires in California to storms on the eastern side of the nation.
Missouri

College ministry sends nearly 40 students to BeachReach

Thirty-nine college students from the Lighthouse Ministry at Northwest Missouri State University spent their spring break serving and sharing the gospel with spring breakers through a ministry called BeachReach.

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