"Senior adults are probably the greatest untapped resource the church has," said Denny Marr, senior adults and pastoral care pastor at Calvary Baptist Church, Republic. "Their wisdom, their time – our church needs them."
84-year-old Nora Lewis, member of First Baptist Church, Mount Vernon, closes her eyes on the south lawn of the historic Lawrence County Courthouse to pray as she has every week for the last eight and a half years.
While Lee’s calling to fight on the front lines of Missouri’s pro-life movement began in 2010, she sees how God laid the groundwork for her ministry long before then.
“The nativity is just the start of God’s plan of redeeming mankind and when people can see the entire picture it becomes more than just a sweet sentimental thing that happened in a manger."
Missouri Baptists utilized the free childcare provided at the 2017 MBC Annual Meeting; made possible by 20 volunteers from the Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (DR) team.
Ministry wives are devoted to their children and they are devoted to their ministry, “But are you fully devoted to God?” asked Kelli Jordan of MOPS International at the Ministry Wives' Dinner.
Where two or more are gathered, there will be conflict. Though that’s not exactly the truth Jesus shared in Matthew 18:20, it doesn’t make the statement any less true.
Desperate and alone in his misery, Scott Lung begged God to kill him or show him the way out of the vicious cycle of “drinkin’ and druggin.’” God had already set the plan for his redemption and recovery into motion.
In November, Russ Sander will take his 55th short-term mission trip in just 14 years. He’s been all over the country and the world, following God wherever God wants to take him.
