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Missouri Baptists celebrate CP Month in October

This month, Missouri Baptists join Southern Baptists across the country in celebrating the Cooperative Program (CP), the unified funding process Southern Baptists have used since 1925 to support missions at state, national, and international levels.
National

Midwestern Seminary and Spurgeon College Students Serve on Mission Around the World

Midwestern Seminary and Spurgeon College students spent the summer proclaiming the gospel, strengthening local churches, and serving ministry partners across the world through a faculty-led mission trip to the Philippines and deployments with the Fusion missions program.
International

No indication Trump addressed religious freedom with China’s Xi Jinping

Amid widespread advocacy for religious liberty and the release of pastors unfairly detained in China, there is no indication of whether President Donald Trump broached the subject with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their summit that ended Sept. 25 in Washington.
Missouri

Missouri DR restores flood-ravaged home

When a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event hit the area around Lesterville, Missouri, this past July, Chrisstina Freeman found herself between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
Missouri

Cross Keys Baptist Church, Florissant, hosts fourth annual Back to School Bash

“We believe that missions, for us, is twofold," said Pastor Raymond Cabello of Cross Keys Baptist Church, Florissant. "We should do evangelism through our works and evangelism through our words, and that’s what we accomplish during these types of events.”
Missouri

Gasconade Baptist Church’s VBS raises $2,500 for children in Kenya

A special highlight for the VBS was the mission emphasis. “We have missionaries, Mike and Brenda Hutsell, who we support on a regular basis,” Pastor Joshua Sutton said. “The children brought money all week to support their work in Kenya. Mike trains pastors to go into the villages to preach and his wife, Brenda, oversees a program which serves 600 children one meal a day for six days of the week. The children brought in $2,500 for the Bibles and Brenda’s Bread Basket.”
International

Women’s ministry opens doors in Panama’s newest province

When International Mission Board missionaries Jeff and Shelah Fathauer heard 12 young women from California Baptist University (CBU) were coming to serve in Panama, they were excited to connect them to a local church in Caimito, a rural district. But as they considered ministry opportunities for an all-female team, they found themselves in uncharted territory.
International

Southern Baptists celebrate new IMB missionaries appointed for service among the nations

Southern Baptists gathered Sept. 16 at The Heights Baptist Church in South Chesterfield, Virginia, to celebrate 46 International Mission Board missionaries preparing to take the gospel to the nations.
Columnists

Reconsidering the Cooperative Program

As I’ve said before, and as I’ll continue to say, the Cooperative Program can never become our primary mission – it’s not what I wake up thinking about every day! Instead, I believe the Cooperative Program is a tremendous tool to help fuel the mission, which is the Great Commission!
Missouri

Missouri DR volunteers remember 9/11 response

September 11th, 2001, is not a date that Denny and Jenny Quinn will soon forget. Even though it's been 25 years since terrorists hijacked two planes and flew them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, they can still recall traveling to New York City with Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (MODR) to assist in the recovery efforts.
International

IMB missionaries strive to saturate South Asia with Scripture

In a South Asian area of more than 100 million people, a stark reality shapes the work of local believers: there’s no place to buy Bibles. For James Andretti, an International Mission Board missionary, that reality highlights both an enormous challenge and a remarkable opportunity. While God is bringing people to faith across the region, demand for Scripture is growing faster than traditional distribution methods can keep pace.
International

Relief efforts continue following Nepali mudslides

The situation in Nepal is much more dire than news reports indicate, says the pastor of an unnamed Christian church in Kathmandu and leader of a Nepali network of more than five hundred churches across Nepal.

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