KANSAS CITY – Just north of the river in Kansas City, Randolph Baptist Church (RBC) was dying. Since 2005, it’d lost 80 percent of its membership and split. Twice. When their pastor retired in 2019, the church consisted of only five members. It was essentially a home without a church. A few miles away in Gladstone, Sudanese Community Church had been meeting in Linden Baptist Church, but was looking for a more permanent place to worship and be a gospel light to the northern African … [Read more...]
Jesus transforms lives, conference speakers say
BRANSON – Ministers at the Missouri Pastors’ Conference here, Oct. 25, were reminded of Jesus’ power to change people's lives. Jason Allen, President of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, told of a 15-year-old girl kidnapped from her home in 1981 and secretly held in a church attic for 119 days, until two church maintenance people held an all-night stake out, catching the culprit and freeing the girl. The girl left clues of her plight at the church when she and her abductor … [Read more...]
DR wraps up work in Louisiana
MANDEVILLE, La. – The MBC Disaster Relief (DR) ministry scaled back in their response to the southern Louisiana city of Mandeville earlier this month. When Hurricane Ida blew through the area on Aug. 29, MBC DR units were in Texarkana, Ark., staging so they could have a rapid response. Then 24 hours after the storm cleared, MBC DR volunteers were arriving in the city and set up to serve meals to storm survivors. Mandeville is on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain about 35 miles north … [Read more...]
Brownfield Baptist gives food backpacks to school-aged kids
RICHLAND – Brownfield Baptist Church provides the food for fourteen backpacks that go home with students at their local school every weekend. Brownfield Baptist is a small church in rural Laclede County near Richland. They run about 25-30 on a good Sunday. But they decided five years ago to be a blessing to the kids in their school district. Stacy Herrill was talking to one of her clients at the nail salon where she works. The lady who attends the Christian church asked her to help … [Read more...]
What if you’re working with a toxic leader?
As a bright-eyed 19-year-old college student, I immediately found a church to get involved in within my new college town. However, when I applied for a position at this church, I had no idea there was a history of high turnover that had become a regular part of this inner-city church. I also didn’t know the church had a reputation for being a spiritually abusive church, primarily through the leader’s manipulative control tactics. What made the situation more difficult was the pastor was … [Read more...]
WMU Missions Celebration reflects on relentless endeavors to pursue God
JEFFERSON CITY – Listen to God. Missouri Baptists attending the recent Missouri WMU Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting received two days of encouraging messages to be relentless in reaching the lost for Christ. Sandy Wisdom-Martin, guest speaker and executive director-treasurer for National WMU in Birmingham, AL, emphasized the importance of listening to God for direction in our daily walk, putting aside negative self-talk and past failures that can hinder our pursuit of God’s plan … [Read more...]
Twin Rivers Baptist Association makes plans for Montana church partnerships
HELENA, Mont. – Under a broad vista of Montana sky with mountains for a backdrop live people with a spirit of self-reliance, self-determination, and individualism. Missouri Baptists who recently visited the state to explore missions partnerships heard those comments repeatedly. They also heard that Montanans suffer the same hurts, heartaches, and addictions as people everywhere – and have the same need for Christ. Pastors there look to Missouri Baptists for reciprocal missions activities. … [Read more...]
EC approves Guidepost contract, agrees to waive privilege in 44-31 vote
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article includes additional reporting from Pathway associate editor Benjamin Hawkins. The article was updated on Oct. 11th. NASHVILLE (BP) – Members of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee (EC) voted, Oct. 5, for the waiving of attorney client privilege within the scope of an independent third-party investigation of the EC concerning the handling of sexual abuse claims. The Sexual Abuse Task Force, assembled by SBC President Ed Litton, was mandated … [Read more...]
Churches merge in ‘ministry adoption’
HAWK POINT – A declining congregation of less than a dozen members in a small, rural community in eastern Missouri faced a terrible option a year ago – should it close the church? That church, Hawk Point Baptist (HPBC), answered with a bold step of faith to continue its 150-year-old evangelistic mission in a new way. The Hawk Point community has less than 700 souls. It’s barely one-third of a square mile in area. There are two gas stations, a bank branch, and a handful of small … [Read more...]
Mo. Baptists to celebrate CP throughout October
JEFFERSON CITY – When you give to your church, you provide foster homes for children, rescue women from human trafficking, support survivors of disasters, start new churches, advance Christian education, offer compassionate care to the elderly, keep roughly 9,000 full-time missionaries on the field, train the next generation of Southern Baptist leaders … and that’s just for starters. Through the Cooperative Program, your tithes and offering extend beyond the reach of your local church. … [Read more...]
MBC’s Resound Network to host panel discussion
BRANSON – The Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) Resound Network is hosting a panel discussion at the MBC annual meeting here at 9 p.m., Oct. 25. The panel takes place at the Branson Convention Center in the Roark Creek room. Focused on the theme, “The Making of a Revitalization Leader,” the panel features Bob Bickford, associate director of replant at the North American Mission Board; Mark Hallock, a replant pastor in Denver, Colo.; Nathan Rose, a revitalization pastor in Kansas City; … [Read more...]
Despite tropical storm, DR volunteers continue Hurricane Ida response
MANDEVILLE, La. (The Alabama Baptist) – The heavy rains coming in from Tropical Storm Nicholas made the work of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief more difficult in Louisiana, where hundreds of volunteers are engaged in cleanup and recovery efforts. “It’s really hurt us with getting work orders done,” said Edgar Barnhill, who serves as the “white hat,” or head honcho, of the Incident Command Center at Mandeville First Baptist Church. Barnhill, who came from Charleston First Baptist … [Read more...]
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