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Restore Hope Ministries house offers rest, refreshment for ministers, spouses

Miles down a windy gravel road, a blue-gray farm house is nestled near the bottom of a hill that gently rolls down to a valley. The home, 2,400 square feet, fully refurbished, and secluded, is operated by Restore Hope Ministries. It opens to a wide view of pastures, walnut groves, and river bluffs in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks. The home is a haven for ministers struggling with discouragement or burnout.
Missouri

Bradley Jemes elected DOM of Laclede Baptist Association

The Laclede Baptist Association of churches unanimously elected Bradley Jemes as their next Director of Missions. Jemes, who will succeed his close friend, the late Steven Strauch, said he is humbled by the association’s confidence in him. His hope is to see Gospel cooperation in Laclede County continue to advance, building upon Strauch’s legacy.
Missouri

Greene County Baptist Association partners in Mexico for the long haul

A short-term mission trip over twenty-five years ago sparked a long-term mission partnership between the Greene County Baptist Association and the Emmanuel Baptist Association in Guadalajara, Mexico.  Since 1997, churches in the GCBA have sent teams to Guadalajara, partnering with Mexican churches to meet practical needs and share the Gospel.
Missouri

SBU trustees adopt new strategic plan

Southwest Baptist University is the only college in the Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities to include the word “caring” in its mission statement, SBU President Rick Melson told Trustees at their Fall meeting. Building on that distinctive, the SBU Trustees approved a new strategic plan to guide the University through its sesquicentennial celebration in 2028.
Missouri

Caddy’s ministry integrates faith, art

For 25 years, Kurt Caddy served as the Director of University Ministries at Southwest Baptist University. After retiring in 2022, Caddy formally launched Fourwinds Faith and Art, a ministry designed to inspire the church to use art for discipleship, worship, and evangelism. The ministry derives its name from Ezekiel 37:9 where God tells Ezekiel to call upon the four winds to bring life to the valley of dry bones.
Missouri

SBU theatre students to compete in Washington D.C.

Kylie Yeast first performed on stage at age 6. Cast in her community theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol, Yeast began a journey that has come to define her calling. Now a senior at SBU, Yeast recently added winner of the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship to her long list of credits.
Ethics

MLK’s ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’, ‘I Have a Dream’ speech encourage ‘ethic of love, justice’

From the isolation of a jail cell in Birmingham, Ala., to the open air of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., the year 1963 saw Martin Luther King Jr. deliver a prophetic critique, yet hopeful vision, for race relations in the United States of America. 
Missouri

With hope, SBU laboring to mend ‘brokenness’ in institutional life, Melson tells trustees

Southwest Baptist University (SBU) President Rick Melson outlined several of his major goals for the upcoming year, including enhancing the SBU chapel experience, creating unity around the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, strengthening SBU’s accreditation and implementing new strategic initiatives such as enlarging SBU’s online campus.
Missouri

Missouri Baptists rally to support HLGU

Missouri Baptist churches are rallying to sustain HLGU’s mission of Christian higher education for generations to come. Immanuel Baptist, Hannibal, recently gave $100,000 to the school, and Edgewood Baptist, Bowling Green, gave $10,000.
Missouri

First Baptist Church, Macon, trusts God’s Word to transform lives

According to Pastor Phil Bray, First Baptist Church, Macon, continues to trust in the power of God’s Word to make old men new and transform believers into the image of Christ.
National

Missouri Baptists host retreat for Montana church planters, pastors

Missouri Baptist Pastor Lane Harrison of LifePoint Church, Ozark, Mo., led a team of Missouri Baptists to host a strategic weekend retreat, Jan. 20-22, for Montana church planters and pastors, along with their families.
Missouri

‘We want them to come to Jesus’: Southern Baptist chaplain a gospel witness at Fort Leonard Wood Army base

Army Chaplain Bryan Hensley, a Missouri native and graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, sees it as his mission to sow spiritual seeds in the lives of new soldiers.

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