CENTRALIA – If the change in the weather makes you think of harvest time or snuggling up under a quilt, Grandview Baptist Church has you covered. The congregation 20 miles north of Columbia hosted a quilt and tractor show, Sept. 21, with the community turning out in force. “It’s a way to let the local community be a community,” said Grandview pastor, Don Combs. “We were wanting to bring in all of our neighbors and folks from around the area to be able to spend time together and see … [Read more...]
Great Commission Conference ‘put on hold’ by MBC for 2020
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) announced last month its decision to put the Great Commission Conference on hold for 2020, according to a statement from MBC Making Disciples director Brad Bennett. “The Great Commission Conference, formally known as the Evangelism Conference, has been one the longest-standing equipping events in our state and we are evaluating its current effectiveness,” Bennett wrote in a statement released to The Pathway, Sept. 30. “I remember a … [Read more...]
New abortion clinic opens outside St. Louis
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, ILL. – Facing increasingly restrictive laws in Missouri toward abortion, Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions, has quietly built a “super” abortion clinic just across the Mississippi River here. The 18,000-square-foot clinic cost approximately $7 million to build and is just 13 miles from St. Louis. The facility was converted from an existing building, using a shell company under the code name “Alaska” to avoid protesters or construction … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptist Convention offers resource for outreach
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Convention is offering a resource to churches that can help them in targeted outreach efforts to their community. Through the MBC, churches have access to information at no cost to themselves from the Mapping Center for Evangelism & Church Growth, accessed via BlessEveryHome.com. “This is a great resource,” Gene Austin, MBC Director of Collegiate Ministries, told The Pathway. The Mapping Center provides demographic information – for example, names … [Read more...]
MBC releases new book on racial reconciliation
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Convention has released a new book on racial reconciliation designed for personal or group study. One Church, All People: Biblical Truth About Diversity and Reconciliation is available from Amazon in print and Kindle formats, and from the MBC’s website, mobaptist.org. Written by the MBC’s Bill Victor, who serves in the Developing Leaders Group as scholar in residence, One Church aims to show that diversity and racial reconciliation are biblical … [Read more...]
MMO supports Children’s Home, church multiplication
JEFFERSON CITY – The Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering supports 16 ministries in Missouri. This year’s theme is taken from 2 Corinthians 9:7 - “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” Following are two short stories about how the gifts of Missouri Baptists support missions projects throughout the Show Me State. A chance for new life Kendra* was in awe the entire weekend. She … [Read more...]
Disaster Relief eyeing Bahamas response
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief is working with our Baptist partners to assist with the needs in the Bahamas. Already Missouri Baptists have sent $10,000 to help with relief efforts. In addition, MBC DR officials have expressed our interest in helping by partnering with a Bahamian church that has been affected by Hurricane Dorian. They plan to assist in additional ways as the needs are made known. Missouri Baptists can help by praying for the churches in the Bahamas … [Read more...]
Cooperative Program celebrated in October
JEFFERSON CITY – What do your tithes and offerings do? Through the Cooperative Program, they start new churches, feed the hungry, advance Christian education, provide disaster relief, rescue women from human trafficking, keep nearly 9,000 full-time missionaries in the field … and much more. October is Cooperative Program Month for the 50,000 churches and church-type missions of the Southern Baptist Convention. It is a month to celebrate the unique funding process that Southern Baptists … [Read more...]
Hannibal pastor to be nominated as MBC 2nd VP
BRANSON – Pastor Jeff Anderson of Calvary Baptist Church, Hannibal, will be re-nominated to serve as Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) second vice-president during the MBC annual meeting here, Oct. 28-29. Ted Middleton, pastor of First Baptist Church, Lewistown, announced his intent to re-nominate Anderson last week. “Pastor Jeff Anderson loves Jesus and His Word,” Middleton said. “His life reflects it. Pastor Jeff has been the pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Hannibal, Mo., for … [Read more...]
Waters stir across Missouri, nation on ‘Baptism Sunday’
GREEN CITY – From northeast Missouri to the furtherest point in the southwestern corner of the state, baptistries, rivers, farm ponds and stock tanks were busy Sept. 8 as many churches took part in “Baptism Sunday.” Though any day is a good day for a baptism, Sunday or no, Ronnie Floyd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, asked Southern Baptist churches to do everything they can to have a special day for baptizing new believers in Jesus Christ. The goal is to … [Read more...]
Three MBC officers to be re-nominated
BRANSON – Already, it has been announced that three out of four Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) officers will be re-nominated during the MBC annual meeting here, Oct. 28-29. As reported in the previous edition of The Pathway, Matt Kearns, pastor of Woodcrest Chapel, Columbia, and formerly the Making Disciples Catalyst at the MBC, announced his intentions to re-nominate Pastor Jeremy Muniz of Ridgecrest Baptist Church, Springfield, for a second term as MBC president. “It is my honor to … [Read more...]
‘Diligence is key’ to avoid liberal drift – Missouri’s Fred Powell an ‘unheralded leader’ of Conservative Resurgence
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the latest article in a year-long series, commemorating the history of the Conservative Resurgence of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in honor of its 40th anniversary. To read previous articles, visit www.mbcpathway.com/ConservativeResurgence. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS (BP) – The late Fred Powell, a longtime Missouri Baptist pastor, stood as a behind-the-scenes leader during the height of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Conservative Resurgence. Powell was the top … [Read more...]
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