Building off of a cryptic title, Kirk Baker, pastor of First Baptist, Camdenton, delivered the annual sermon to Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting, speaking on “Chicken, cheese and cereal.”
Followers of Jesus are true partners in the Lord, John Yeats, Missouri Baptist Convention executive director, said during his address to messengers at the MBC annual meeting.
“Don’t Worry, Be Holy” was the theme of the presidential address spoken by MBC President Ken Parker, who is the pastor of First Baptist Church, Kearney.
Ezell told trustees that in order to see the kind of turnaround in baptisms that Southern Baptists desire, it will take millions of Southern Baptists having tens of millions of gospel conversations.
Southern Baptists can be proud of how the SBC messengers and elected leaders responded to and corrected an error of one of their committees and insisted that the right thing be done.
The exhibit hall of the Southern Baptist Convention was buzzing with activity as SBC related colleges, seminaries, entities and ancillary organizations vied for the attention of the convention messengers.
Widows are some “of our biggest and strongest prayer warriors in the body of Christ,” Forbis said, “and we need to do something to better call attention to their needs and to encourage them.”
Don Currence, who was serving as acting registration secretary for the SBC Annual Meeting, knew going in that help would be scarce, and sensed an opportunity to work with his two teenaged daughters.
“A couple of years ago, we said our goal was to work to get to a position of short-term financial responsibility and long-term organizational stability, and by God’s grace, we are there,” Platt says.
