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Missouri Baptist church member helps to start youth center in Newburg

The small community of Newburg, Mo., is having a big impact on the youth of the area with the 2CM Youth Center. Sharon Paris, member of Fort Wyman Baptist Church in Rolla and founder of the youth center, is excited about what is happening.

School at Fellowship of Wildwood church celebrates 20 years

Living Water Academy (LWA) has a lot to celebrate this year. The school is celebrating 20 years of learning at LWA and the first seniors to graduate from the high school. LWA is housed at Fellowship of Wildwood.

IMB releases ‘Blueprint’ for NextGen seeking God’s design to reach the nations

The International Mission Board has released “Blueprint: Recognizing God’s Design for His Glory among the Nations,” a new course and companion book for students, young adults and ministry leaders to understand Scripture as one unified story and recognize their role in God’s global mission.

Overview: SBC officer candidates to be nominated at annual meeting

Multiple Southern Baptists have been put forward as candidates to serve as Southern Baptist Convention officers, including two presidential candidates who have announced their willingness to be nominated during the SBC annual meeting in June.

Missouri WMU stirs up joy at annual mission celebration

Celebrating the joy of the Lord was the focus of the annual mission celebration sponsored by Missouri WMU (MWMU).

New Mexico Children’s Home offering seminary for houseparents

Some ideas are so simple, so needed and so good, it’s hard to figure out why it took so long to think of them. Serenity Richard had that response earlier this year. As executive director of the New Mexico Baptist Children’s Home, she was well-aware of the challenges for houseparents to establish loving, safe homes for traumatized children. One day, someone brought it up to her. Could the organization help pay for seminary training for houseparents?

Parental challenges, stress stymie Scripture engagement, American Bible Society finds

Parents are open to Scripture engagement, but are stymied by challenges including work/family balance, fatigue and financial provision, the American Bible Society (ABS) said in its latest release from the 2026 State of the Bible.

‘We’ve had a life-changing first year in Uganda’

When my family first answered the call to pursue the International Mission Board for full-time missions, we had no idea where we would end up or what we would be doing. My initial thinking was that we would serve somewhere in Africa in theological education.

SBU confers 434 degrees conferred during May 8th commencement

Southwest Baptist University conferred 269 undergraduate and 165 graduate degrees during two ceremonies held at the Bolivar campus on Friday, May 8.

Recovery group boosts community choir organized by MBC churches

Cathy Kelso, pianist and worship leader of First Baptist Church, Lewistown, was trying to pull together a community choir, and women from four churches in the Mt. Salem/Wyaconda Southern Baptist Association volunteered to participate in the choir. But Kelso had a problem. “We needed men,” she said.

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