JEFFERSON CITY – The Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering supports more than two dozen ministries in Missouri – including VBS training and collegiate ministry. This year’s theme is taken from Romans 12:10: “Love one another deeply as brothers and sisters. Take the lead in honoring one another.” The MMO Eight Days of Prayer are Sept. 11-18. Following are two short stories about how the gifts of Missouri Baptists support missions projects throughout the Show Me State. The love of … [Read more...]
Transition coming to MBC’s Pathway newspaper
Hinkle to be named editor emeritus, will focus on MBC’s public policy efforts JEFFERSON CITY – The Pathway’s founding editor, Don Hinkle, has announced that, effective on Jan. 1, 2023, he will step aside from the Baptist state newspaper to focus entirely on his role as the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) public policy advisor. He will hold the title of editor emeritus at the newspaper. (Read Hinkle's thoughts about this transition in his latest editorial here.) This year marks the … [Read more...]
Missouri pastor’s wife dies in auto crash
NEW MADRID (BP) – Heather Polk, a nurse practitioner who used her expertise on medical mission trips, died Sept. 7 in a two-car collision as she returned home from work. Polk’s husband, Jeff, is pastor of New Madrid Baptist Church. The accident occurred at the junction of highway 61 and I-55 in New Madrid. A 19-year-old driver in a 2012 Chevrolet Cruz failed to yield and collided with Polk’s 2012 Mazda as she returned from her shift in Dexter, Mo. Polk was pronounced dead at the … [Read more...]
Teaching kids hygiene, worth opens doors for gospel in Southeast Asia
SOUTHEAST ASIA (IMB) – Part of International Mission Board missionary and nurse practitioner Rachel’s ministry in a rural area of Southeast Asia is educating elementary school girls on their health. These girls are often forced by their families to drop out of school by the sixth grade in order to help provide income. She and her IMB colleague Anna, missionary and public health specialist, know they only get to interact with these girls for a short time before they enter the workforce at … [Read more...]
FBC Trenton helps Wisconsin congregation make impact in neighborhood
WISCONSIN DELLS, Wisc. – For the past three years, the First Baptist Church of Trenton, Mo., has sent a mission team of roughly 20 people to partner with Rock of Hope Church here. The Missouri Baptist Convention is currently engaged in a partnership with the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention. On July 10-14, a mission team from the Missouri church once again traveled to the area and reached out to the Wisconsin Dells community. “They helped us meet neighbors in the community through … [Read more...]
MMO supports rescue from human trafficking
JEFFERSON CITY – The Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering supports more than two dozen ministries in Missouri – including ministry to human trafficking survivors and to military veterans. This year’s theme is taken from Romans 12:10: “Love one another deeply as brothers and sisters. Take the lead in honoring one another.” The MMO Eight Days of Prayer are Sept. 11-18. Following are two short stories about how the gifts of Missouri Baptists support missions projects throughout the … [Read more...]
Roundup: Missouri Baptist Churches transform lives through VBS programs
Mo. Baptist cooperation helps churches with VBS decor JEFFERSON CITY – With the help from funds from the Missouri Baptist Convention, a team from The Rock Church of St. Louis campus in Ballwin created Vacation Bible School decorations for use by churches across the state. “This is cooperative dollars at work,” Christy Nance, the state Vacation Bible School Director and member of The Rock Church Ballwin, who organized the team for preparing the VBS decorations. By press time, the … [Read more...]
Saved at HLGU, graduate now focuses on missions
HANNIBAL – It was the presence of Christians college students at around Kayla Meier that helped bring her to Christ. She hopes to have a similar effect with college students in Romania later this year. Meier came to Hannibal-LaGrange University in 2013 to play softball, transferring from a community college, and grew up in a Catholic school. “I noticed something different when I came to HLGU. I was not on campus long before people started sharing about Jesus. Things turned to gospel … [Read more...]
After 80 years, FBC Ferguson becomes home to George Liele Center for Mission Mobilization
FERGUSON – As First Baptist Church prepares for the 80th anniversary of being on mission on Sept. 18, they will celebrate the future as well as the past. The church’s building is now becoming the home for the George Liele Center for Mission Mobilization, though the church family will continue to meet here. The new center is the 17th of the North American Mission Board’s Send Relief mission centers. It is named for George Liele, the first African American to be ordained and to leave the … [Read more...]
Nearly 80 profess faith in Christ in Baptist Tent at Missouri State Fair
SEDALIA – Seventy-eight people prayed to receive Jesus at the Baptist Tent during the Missouri State Fair. The mid-August fair runs for ten days and Baptist volunteers were there every day asking people if they wanted to sign up for a gift card. The people agreed to listen to the volunteers for three minutes while they shared their story of how they met Jesus. And an average of almost eight people per day agreed to pray and trust Christ with their lives. Fourteen made a recommitment to … [Read more...]
Stephanie Chase to headline Children’s Ministers Retreat
JEFFERSON CITY – Stephanie Chase, kids’ minister at Champion Forest Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, is the featured speaker at this year’s Children’s Ministers Retreat, held Nov. 3-5 at the Chateau on the Lake in Branson. Children’s ministers from across Missouri are invited to this special time of fellowship and training. Chase, a graduate of Texas Tech and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, has partnered with her husband of 25 years in parenting and ministry. With a love for … [Read more...]
MMO supports veterans, collegiate summer missions
JEFFERSON CITY – The Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering supports more than two dozen ministries in Missouri – including ministries that support veterans and mobilize collegiate missionaries. This year’s theme is taken from Romans 12:10: “Love one another deeply as brothers and sisters. Take the lead in honoring one another.” The MMO Eight Days of Prayer are Sept. 11-18. Following are two short stories about how the gifts of Missouri Baptists support missions projects throughout … [Read more...]
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