LAGRANGE – Missouri Baptists in Mt. Salem-Wyaconda Association ministered to victims and families after a Lewis County C-1 School bus overturned April 1. Twenty-six students and the bus driver were treated for injuries of varying degrees when the bus went off narrow Route C in Lewis County, landing on its top. Six students were still hospitalized days after the accident. There were no fatalities. Paramedic Tom Stark of Ewing First Baptist helped one of the more seriously injured girls, … [Read more...]
Ex-congressman brings common sense politics
HANNIBAL – Bob McEwen told those at the Worldview Conference at Hannibal-LaGrange University, April 3, how economics in politics works and how it should work. The former U.S. Congressman from Ohio gave a historical perspective of God’s role in politics. In a two-part speech, McEwen said there are three power sources – economics, politics/military, and spiritual. “The first two won’t save the U.S.A.,” McEwen said. While many today squelch Christianity, McEwen proclaimed that “America is … [Read more...]
Apologist: Our decisions have eternal consequences
HANNIBAL – When Rob Phillips searched the Internet for answers to the question, “What happens when I die?” he found more than 312 million responses. “Your worldview drives your answers,” the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) communications director and North American Mission Board (NAMB) certified apologist said during the MBC’s Worldview Conference at Hannibal-LaGrange University, April 3. After reading Luke 16:19-31, where a rich man and a poor man named Lazarus lived and died, … [Read more...]
Revival sweeps across Southeast Missouri
MOREHOUSE – Randy Conn understands the difference between a revival meeting and a revival. He and others in the Charleston Baptist Association are seeing the results of a real revival. Five churches in the association finished simultaneous March revival services in a two-week span with some outstanding results: 59 professions of faith, resulting in18 baptisms so far, and 10 rededications. The participating churches were First Baptist, Morehouse; First Baptist, East Prairie; First … [Read more...]
WMU makes dolls for DR
EUREKA – Handmade dolls that have often been used during mission trips are now being made for Disaster Relief chaplains to give to victims. Jay Ryan, wife of Missouri Valley Director of Missions, and state chaplain trainer Patrick Ryan said the pattern for the doll came from the Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) around 2009. Jay said one lady asked her to get the pattern for the doll. Patrick asked WMU if they wanted to do this. Patrick Ryan said he originally got the idea from a First … [Read more...]
DR event draws large crowd
EUREKA – Approximately 225 people attended the first 2014 Disaster Relief (DR) training event at Central Baptist Church here, Feb. 21-22. Almost half of the participants were first-time trainees. Associate State Director Dave Wells said attendance in the 180s is normal for training. Three other training events are scheduled this year. Recent disasters – from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the 2011 tornado in Joplin to last year’s tornado in Oklahoma and typhoon in the Philippines – … [Read more...]
Bumpers: Reach the world “whatever it takes”
SPRINGFIELD – Pastor Eddie Bumpers of Crossway Baptist Church challenged Missouri Baptists at the “Sowing in Tears” conference to do “whatever it takes” to reach the lost. Preaching from Matt. 9:1-8, Bumpers recounted how four faithful friends dug a hole in someone’s roof to get their lame friend to Jesus for the restoration he needed. Bumpers shared four characteristics that believers should imitate as they reach the lost. First, like these four friends, believers should love the … [Read more...]
Sow in tears to change lives, Williams says
SPRINGFIELD – People ought to be changed when Jesus Christ intersects their lives. During the “Sowing in Tears” conference, Jan. 27-28, Pastor K. Marshall Williams of the Nazarene Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Penn., shared how Christ changed his life and urged Missouri Baptists to proclaim the life-changing gospel to others. “Was it really me proclaiming and exclaiming the Word of God?” Williams remembered asking after he entered the ministry. “All of us were naughty before we became … [Read more...]
Evangelists missing link in revival services
The Bible says that Christians have different calls to service. Each Christian should therefore serve the body of Christ, the apostle Paul writes in 1 Cor. 12, lest the body miss a vital organ that would empower the church for ministry. Yet some Missouri Baptist evangelists feel that they are all too often left out of the ministry of churches, although they feel that their service could provide a missing link for successful revival services. There are several reasons for this: Some … [Read more...]
Abortions down in Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY – Recent statistics show an apparent decrease in state abortions, but leaders from Missouri Right to Life (MRL) caution citizens against celebrating too soon. In 2011, according to the latest statistics from the Missouri Department of Health, the number of abortions in Missouri reached 9,234. While this number is still too high for pro-life advocates, it is less than half of the 21,671 abortions reported in 1980. By recent comparison, there were 9,796 reported abortions in … [Read more...]
Canton woman has year-round nativity set
CANTON – Roberta Willis is never far from a reminder of God sending his son to be the Savior of the world. Willis, a member of First Baptist, Canton, not only collects nativity scenes, but displays most of her 57 sets in her home year round. “I can’t see putting them away. What’s the use of having them out for one month of the year? Why hide them?” she said. The crèches and crèche pieces of paper mache, plastic, wood, glass, and ceramic line bookcases, cabinet tops and a converted … [Read more...]
‘Light Up Missouri,’ test program making God’s Word shine through
Dan Steinbeck/contributing writer MOBERLY – Members at The Gathering Biker Church here recently distributed Bibles as a part of a Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) test program, sharing the light of God’s Word not only with bikers at an annual rally in the Lake of the Ozarks, but also with patients at a treatment center in Oregon. Earlier this year, The Gathering Biker Church took part in test-piloting “Light Up Missouri,” an MBC initiative designed to transform communities with God’s … [Read more...]
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