STOUTLAND – The Laclede Baptist Association camp was the site of the recent “Great Outdoors Day.” The camp accommodated about a thousand people for games, food, drinks and demonstrations of various kinds to celebrate the outdoors and God’s creation Saturday, April 16th. A horse whispering demonstration, led by James Frazier, of Diamond was viewed by the crowd in the morning. Frazier concluded the demo of taming an unbroken horse with a gospel invitation to receive Christ. Five people … [Read more...]
Yeats: Orphan care displays gospel
HANNIBAL – Missouri Baptists can display the power and truth of the gospel by caring for orphans and foster children, John Mark Yeats said during the Worldview Conference at Hannibal-LaGrange University here, April 14. “If we will be those Christians who follow the biblical care mandates, we will profoundly disrupt secular worldviews, and we will powerfully demonstrate the truth of the gospel,” Yeats, dean at Midwestern Baptist College, SBC, on the campus of Midwestern Seminary in Kansas … [Read more...]
Northwest BSU tackles flood clean up
EUREKA – Forget playing in the beaches of Florida, a group of 30 students from Northwest Missouri State University’s Baptist Student Union chose to spend their spring break along the cold, damp banks of the Big River cleaning up property damaged by January’s flooding. The students partnered with Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief and Central Baptist Church here. They more or less adopted a half-mile of road along the Big River and poured all their efforts into three houses. “One house was … [Read more...]
Springfield pastor uses his lungs to serve the Lord
SPRINGFIELD – For Justin Nelson, a lifelong love for music began when Monty Matthews – a member of the Jordanaires, the American quartet known for providing background vocals for Elvis Presley — visited Nelson’s childhood church. “He heard me singing in church that day,” Nelson said, “and he just encouraged me as a young guy to start singing for the Lord. That kind of was the catalyst for my lifelong love of music.” Soon Nelson was following Matthews’ advice, with the full support of his … [Read more...]
Layman plans for 50,000 churches in Ethiopia
ROGERS, Ark. (BP) – Arkansas corporate executive Haileyesus Abate cries, he says, for the people of his native Ethiopia, a majority Christian nation where numerous primitive tribes still worship nature as deities and have never heard the Gospel. Typical is the nomadic, animistic Mursi Tribe in southwestern Ethiopia, whose men don’t wear clothing. Instead, they use clay and natural pigments to paint intricate, colorful patterns on their bodies to attract a bride, who likely will have had a … [Read more...]
Church makes its home among the homeless
CONROE, Texas (BP) – Jeff Foshee was at the end of his rope. Haunted by depression, fear, and his own misfortunes, he felt he could not hold on any longer. Thanks to a friend’s guidance, Foshee’s next step landed him at the Houston-area Under Over Fellowship in Conroe. “When I first came to a Sunday service with Under Over, something clicked. It just felt like home,” Foshee says. “I have been here ever since.” Jerry Vineyard, meanwhile, also found himself at the end of his rope. After … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists send 1,247 relief buckets to Africa
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptists filled 1,247 Baptist Global Response buckets packed with supplies during 2015, and the majority of those have gone to Mozambique, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast, with the latest shipment currently being prepared to go to Cape Town, West Africa. Prior to the emphasis in 2015, Missouri Baptists had a part in sending about 300 buckets for this project. Since 2013, more than 8,800 buckets have been filled and sent to Africa from all over the United … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists partner in Italy
VENETO, Italy – From the moment he arrived in Belluno, Italy, Jeremy Sells soaked in everything he saw and heard. And this province with a population of nearly 200,000 people had plenty to take in, since it is located in the Alps of northern Italy and in a country that has Christian monuments dating back hundreds—if not more than 1,000—years. But nothing prepared Sells, pastor of First Baptist Church, Scott City, for a meeting he and his mission team had with a local evangelical pastor. … [Read more...]
KC churches develop leaders, reach out to refugees in Africa
OAK GROVE – Pastor Randy Messer of First Baptist Church here walked into a classroom in the Horn of Africa and heard voices, crying out and pleading to someone, but he saw no one. But as Messer stepped further into the room, he found the source of these cries. A group of young pastors had come to class earlier, where they knelt on the floor praying and crying out to the Lord. These would be Messer’s students for the next several days. “How powerful that was,” Messer said. “The presence of … [Read more...]
Glasses ministy helps Mexico hear – and see – gospel
CHIAPAS, Mexico – At 98 years old, Domingo Lopez had never laid eyes on a foreigner. But, thanks to Concord Baptist Church in Jefferson City, when he finally did meet them at one of four eyeglasses clinics in the southern state of Chiapas, he could see them clearly. Lopez was one of hundreds ministered to through an eyeglasses clinic put on by Concord, the latest of 19 such mission trips over the past six years that began when Larry Merry was part of a medical missions trip and realized he … [Read more...]
In Indonesia, opportunities for healing abound
INDONESIA (BP) – It wasn’t tropical tourism that first brought Rosemary Brackey* to Indonesia more than a decade ago. It was her desire to offer healing hands to the country after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed an estimated 170,000 Indonesians alone. At the time, Rosemary was a telemetry nurse, monitoring patients’ vital signs for Liberty Hospital in a Kansas City suburb. She and her husband Howard* had felt called to global missions but were waiting for the Lord’s timing. Nearly 88 … [Read more...]
23 states increase CP for SBC missions, ministry
NASHVILLE (BP) – Twenty-three state conventions voted to increase the portion of Cooperative Program receipts being forwarded to Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries in the coming year, continuing a trend inspired by passage of the Great Commission Task Force recommendations five years ago. This year, Florida Baptists made the largest shift, moving from 41 to 51 percent allocated to SBC causes. “This epic, pacesetting decision will set a precedent in the Southern Baptist … [Read more...]
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