SPRINGFIELD – The 2018 Missouri Baptist Pastors’ Conference meeting at Crossway Baptist Church here, Oct. 22, will feature three guest speakers highlighting “the ‘sine qua non’ of preaching.” Featured preachers include: • Eddie Bumpers, senior pastor of Crossway Baptist Church, Springfield. Bumpers is a native of Alabama and a graduate of Luther Rice Seminary. He pastored churches in Mississippi and North Carolina before becoming senior pastor of Crossway in December 2000. Bumpers and … [Read more...]
Special hotel rates available for MBC annual meeting
SPRINGFIELD – Special hotel rates are available for a limited time to those attending the Missouri Baptist Convention Annual Meeting at Crossway Baptist Church here, Oct. 22-23. Hotels with special rates are listed below: Drury Inn & Suites 2715 N. Glenstone Ave. Springfield, MO 65803 417.863.8400 Rate: $119.99 – cutoff date 9/21/18 Holiday Inn & Suites 2720 N. Glenstone Ave. Springfield, MO 65803 417.865.8600 Rate: $99 – cutoff date 10/08/18 Oasis Hotel 2535 N. … [Read more...]
Missouri DR workers to provide childcare at annual meeting
SPRINGFIELD – Volunteers from Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (DR) will provide childcare on Monday and Tuesday of the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting here, Oct. 22-23. Registration is due by Oct. 14 and is required. There is no cost for the childcare. Childcare is being offered for children from birth through 7 years of age. It begins at 8 a.m., Oct. 22, and ends after the Tuesday evening session, Oct. 23. Although children will have snacks in childcare, parents are … [Read more...]
MBC’s Student Evangelism Weekend coming Oct. 12-13
HOLTS SUMMIT – We live in a culture that is increasingly hostile towards Christianity. Simultaneously, that culture desperately needs to hear the good news of Jesus Christ. Students are on the front lines of this cultural conflict, and many of them simply are not prepared, sometimes because so few of them have been trained. To address this need, the Missouri Baptist Convention is hosting an event Oct. 12-13 to inspire, encourage, and train students to have gospel conversations and to … [Read more...]
FBC De Soto’s Muniz to be nominated as MBC president
SPRINGFIELD – Jeremy Muniz, pastor of First Baptist Church, De Soto, will be nominated for the office of Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) president during the MBC annual meeting at Crossway Baptist Church here, Oct. 22-23. Muniz currently serves as the MBC’s first vice president. Joe Costephens, pastor of First Baptist Church, Ferguson, told The Pathway earlier this month that he will make this nomination. “Jeremy Muniz is a man that I admire. He is a loving husband to Jennifer, a … [Read more...]
FBC Diamond’s Crow to be nominated as MBC president
SPRINGFIELD – Ron Crow, pastor of First Baptist Church, Diamond, will be nominated for the office of Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) president during the MBC annual meeting at Crossway Baptist Church here, Oct. 22-23. Eddie Bumpers, pastor of Crossway Baptist Church, Springfield, told The Pathway in late August that he will make this nomination. “I am excited about nominating my friend, brother in Christ, and faithful pastor of First Baptist Church, Diamond, Mo., Ron Crow, to be the … [Read more...]
Sight & Sound’s ‘Moses’ schedules three dates in theaters
BRANSON – Sight & Sound’s epic musical drama Moses is adding a Sept. 20 encore showing. Strong early demand through Fathom Events for the original two events – Sept. 13 and 15 – drove the bonus presentation. Filmed in front of a live audience, the original stage production was seen by nearly two million people at Sight & Sound’s two live venues in Lancaster, Penn. and Branson. Set adrift as a baby and now wandering in the wilderness, Moses is one unlikely hero—until God calls him … [Read more...]
‘Steady’: Missouri Baptists gather in Springfield Oct. 22-23
SPRINGFIELD – Messengers representing churches affiliated with the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) are gathering Oct. 22-23 at Crossway Baptist Church in Springfield for their 184th annual meeting. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Steady,” taken from Exodus 17:8-16. That’s the story of Aaron and Hur coming to Moses’ rescue, holding up his arms so the Israelites prevailed in battle against the Amalekites. Verse 12 says, “so his [Moses’] hands remained steady until the sun went … [Read more...]
Voter registration packs ready for churches
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Convention’s Christian Life Commission has prepared a voter registration packet for churches. The packets include step-by-step instructions and materials that will be needed to conduct a voter registration drive on site. Churches are urged to hold registration drives on the weekends of Sept. 30 and Oct. 7. Citizens must be registered to vote (or change their address if they have moved since the last time they voted) by Oct. 10 in order to vote in the … [Read more...]
SBU celebrates 141st school year at formal convocation
BOLIVAR – Two faculty members and a staff member were honored at Southwest Baptist University’s annual convocation Wednesday, Aug. 22. In addition, retiring SBU President C. Pat Taylor, Ed.D., introduced the 25th president in SBU’s 141-year history – Dr. Eric A. Turner – and recalled meeting him for the first time 18 years ago during the annual meeting for Southern Baptist Colleges and Universities. “We established an immediate friendship and have been friends for 18 years now,” Taylor … [Read more...]
Missouri Foundation create new college scholarships for Mo. Baptist students
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Foundation Board of Trustees met for their final meeting of the fiscal year on Aug. 17 in Jefferson City. Among other items, the board heard reports on market returns, the progress of its church loan program and Term Investments for churches product, and took action to create new college scholarships for Missouri Baptist students while approving a new budget. Due to favorable market returns, the diligence of staff and continued support by the … [Read more...]
MMO supports disaster relief, ethnic churches
The Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering supports 18 ministries in Missouri. This year’s theme is taken from 1 Chronicles 29:14b: “Everything comes from You, and we have given You only what comes from Your hand.” Following are two short stories of how the gifts of Missouri Baptists support missions projects throughout the Show Me State. Ready and Willing Some of the “blue hat” supervisors who served in Texas after last year’s devastating storms were disaster-relief veterans – … [Read more...]