ST. JOSEPH – The St. Joseph Baptist Association may be 150 years old, but they are remaking themselves constantly in order to reach more people for Christ in northwest Missouri and beyond. Director of Missions Roger Brumley leads the association and their theme is “Building Great Commission Churches.” Brumley says, “We minister to member churches by providing opportunities for different areas of ministry.” He listed several association ministries: camps, conferences, missions, disaster … [Read more...]
Canaan Baptist Church sees Christmas as good time to be missional, evangelistic
ST. LOUIS – Thirty families in the South County area of St. Louis received free Christmas gifts for their children through a recent outreach project of Canaan Baptist Church. Pastor Daniel Carr told The Pathway it was a fairly easy project to set up. “We had church members and a guidance counselor at our school link us to thirty families, and we set up a Christmas store at our church.” There were 78 kids from the thirty families that came through the “store.” The kids were directed to … [Read more...]
Living nativity drama portrays gospel from cradle to cross
RUSSELLVILLE – A living Nativity scene at Corticelli Baptist Church portrays the gospel story from the cradle of Jesus to the cross and the empty tomb. The Dec. 6th production was the sixth time the church has put this together for their community. Cars line up outside the rural church and are directed in to the six nativity scenes with animals, actors, Scripture signs and music, and the story is unfolded with scenes of Bethlehem and the manger, the angels revealing Jesus’ birth to the … [Read more...]
UPDATE: DR teams deploy within Missouri, to Kentucky after tornadoes hit
UPDATE (Dec. 15): As of Dec. 15, Missouri Disaster Relief (DR) crews are working in the Kentucky towns of Princeton and Dawson Springs. The operations may be shifting more to debris removal and mass feeding instead of chain saw work. MBC DR Assessors on the ground in those areas are reporting the tornado took a very narrow path and the affected areas are very clearly “totally destroyed” or “hardly touched.” There were only two chain saw work orders turned in after assessing several areas … [Read more...]
Evangelistic drama yields 54 decisions for Christ
CAMERON – The church building became a theater, but not in the traditional sense. During the recent Judgment House production at First Baptist Church, Cameron, the theatrical scenes were spread out all over the facilities. There were eight dramatic scenes in the production of “Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.” The realistic portrayal of heaven and hell and the choices young people make as they live their lives was sketched out in the eight dramas that the crowd rotated through in … [Read more...]
Mo. Disaster Relief teams activated for tornado relief
FREDERICKTOWN – A band of storms marched across Missouri on Sunday evening, Oct. 24, as many Missouri Baptists were heading to Branson for the MBC Annual Meeting. The storms intensified as they went across the Ozarks in a northeasterly direction. In the Madison County town of Fredericktown, population 3,999, the storm turned into what was reported as an EF-3 tornado with winds of 140 MPH. While no injuries were reported, there was extensive damage to homes and businesses in the … [Read more...]
Stamps, specialist in church history, joins Missouri Baptist Apologetics Network
WILDWOOD – David Stamps has a keen interest in church history. As one of the newer members of the Missouri Baptist Apologetics Network, Stamps is open to leading workshops and seminars on church history and historical theology for churches and associations. He is retired as a data scientist from Enterprise Holdings. There, he analyzed statistics and trends to discover reasons why things occur. He said he is always trying to understand the causes and reasons things occur. Stamps says his … [Read more...]
DR volunteers help annual meeting run smoothly
BRANSON – Gold shirts and hats were in abundance at the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting. MBC Disaster Relief (DR) volunteers not only had an exhibit to represent their ministry, but they staffed the childcare area and served as door greeters and ushers in the convention hall. Gaylon Moss, MBC DR director said they were asked to provide the childcare, the ushers and to staff a booth for DR as well as Baptist Builders and Hunger Relief. He said he was pretty excited about the … [Read more...]
State-to-state mission opportunities highlighted in convention’s exhibit hall
BRANSON – MBC convention attenders were drawn to the booth of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention (MWBC) because they were giving away samples of cheese and apples, favorite food products of those two states. Representatives of that convention shared mission opportunities with Missouri Baptists as they munched on cheese and apples. At the Montana Southern Baptist Convention (MSBC) booth a man with a big brown cowboy hat greeted convention attenders with a broad smile and a warm … [Read more...]
DR wraps up work in Louisiana
MANDEVILLE, La. – The MBC Disaster Relief (DR) ministry scaled back in their response to the southern Louisiana city of Mandeville earlier this month. When Hurricane Ida blew through the area on Aug. 29, MBC DR units were in Texarkana, Ark., staging so they could have a rapid response. Then 24 hours after the storm cleared, MBC DR volunteers were arriving in the city and set up to serve meals to storm survivors. Mandeville is on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain about 35 miles north … [Read more...]
Brownfield Baptist gives food backpacks to school-aged kids
RICHLAND – Brownfield Baptist Church provides the food for fourteen backpacks that go home with students at their local school every weekend. Brownfield Baptist is a small church in rural Laclede County near Richland. They run about 25-30 on a good Sunday. But they decided five years ago to be a blessing to the kids in their school district. Stacy Herrill was talking to one of her clients at the nail salon where she works. The lady who attends the Christian church asked her to help … [Read more...]
First Baptist, Laclede, finds alternative to traditional, indoor Bible school format
LACLEDE – It is not the first time a church has held vacation Bible school in the park instead of the church building. But for several reasons this year it was the option that made most sense for First Baptist Church, Laclede. They are located in north-central Missouri near Brookfield. Brandy Wright, the VBS director at First Baptist Church said that because of COVID-19 last year, they chose to have VBS outdoors in the city park near their church. But this year they decided to do it … [Read more...]
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