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Macedonia Baptist mission team provides training for Bible-storying evangelism in Ghana

To meet people and talk to them about Jesus, sometimes it just takes a good story.  Alan Locke and a team of three other men found that to be true on a recent mission trip to Accra, the capital city of Ghana in West Africa.
Missouri

Special needs ministry produces spiritual fruit at FBC Springfield

The “Shepherd’s Flock” at First Baptist Church of Springfield is reaching special needs adults for Christ, and three of them were recently baptized. Two more are awaiting baptism. One of the staff/caretakers for the special needs individual has been saved and baptized, as well.
Missouri

St. Louis Metro Baptist Association elects Byrd as executive director

The executive board of the St. Louis Metro Baptist Association on June 30 elected Michael Byrd, Sr., as the association’s new executive director.
Missouri

Malawi mission reveals considerable human need, ministry opportunities

Twenty-one Missouri Baptists traveled to the nation of Malawi the last two weeks of May.  They were on a mission trip to the Dzaleka Refugee Camp where a Baptist church and a Christian school minister amid great human needs. 
Missouri

VBS remains a strong ministry in Missouri Baptist churches

The Emmanuel Baptist Church holds VBS every summer and their pastor, Rich Cummings, says it is a “very beneficial outreach which is popular in our area.”
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Rockport Baptist purchases former Catholic building to provide more space for growing congregation

The Rockport Baptist Church was out of space.  Easter Sunday, the pastor said they were packed in so tight he could hardly move.  But God has answered prayers, and in February they sold their 1960s era facility and moved into a former Catholic Church building, May 17. 
Missouri

Missouri Baptists foster special needs ministries, as SBC task force prepares report for this summer

A task force appointed by Southern Baptist messengers last year is prepared to give a report at this summer’s annual meeting in Orlando, urging more special needs ministries be established.  They are trying to identify ways SBC entities and state conventions can assist churches to reach more people with disabilities.
Missouri

Kansas City’s Northland Church reproduces disciples through church planting

Matt Marrs says he would rather be a pastor of a smaller church that has planted 20 churches than to be pastor of a church with 2,000 members. Northland Church, where Marrs serves, has sent out 10 church plants and church planters in the past two decades.
Missouri

Lifepointe, Fulton, reaches next generation

Lifepointe Church of Fulton has been described as one of Missouri’s fastest growing church plants by Jason Zellmer, who heads up NAMB’s Send Missouri. 
Faith

New MBC Apologetics Network member helps reconcile science with theology

Are the fields of science and theology compatible or are they diametrically in opposition to each other?  That’s a question with which many wrestle. Jeffrey Maskrod is immersed in science with his training and occupation. And he believes much of the two disciplines can be reconciled and complement each other.
Missouri

Associations strive to help churches partner together to be on mission

Bob Feeler says he believes Baptist associations are a key to churches experiencing turnarounds and new growth, and he's not alone in feeling this way.
Missouri

Widow recounts God’s faithfulness following husband’s death during mission trip in Mexico

While on a mission trip in San Felipe Usila in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, in September 2024, a member of First Baptist Church, Camdenton, Mike Luttrell, suffered a cardiac arrest and died while walking down a street in the village. His wife, Connie, was with him and she recently provided a narrative to The Pathway about the incident and how God was so faithful to her and the mission volunteers as they went through the traumatic incident and made arrangements to return to the United States.

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