COLUMBIA – Missouri Baptist Convention campus missionary Scott Westfall has begun this fall to replant a collegiate ministry at the University of Missouri here. Through the years, the Missouri Baptist Convention has had a couple different ministries at the University of Missouri (Mizzou). The BSU was the official MBC ministry there until about 15 years ago. At that time, MBC reorganized its college ministry structure, and the BSU chose to become a separate entity. Attempts have been … [Read more...]
Exclusive: Mohler places ‘nationalism’ in its biblical context
NASHVILLE – Al Mohler is no proponent of “Christian nationalism” despite the online magazine Slate headline: “‘Christian Nationalism’ Used to Be Taboo. Now It’s All the Rage.” Slate, however, erroneously stated in the fourth paragraph of an Aug. 5 article that Mohler called Christian nationalism “idolatrous” after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Mohler had used the word “idolatrous” five times during his “The Briefing” podcast on Jan. 21, but in context noted that “it is not fair to … [Read more...]
Dealing with doubt?
EDITOR'S NOTE: Neil Franks serves as president of the Missouri Baptist Foundation. I have a funny last name. Not like a name that makes you laugh or a name that is hard to pronounce; rather, my last name is sometimes confused for a first name. For instance, I admired my wife’s pastor; he was a fantastic godly leader and a brilliant expositor of the Word. One Sunday, we returned from Seminary for a visit; I looked forward to seeing him and listening to his sermon. At the end of 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...]
Freeway expands ministry efforts, making missionaries of ex-convicts
SPRINGFIELD – A Missouri-based ministry aimed at reaching the hard-to-reach in society, from the homeless to drug addicts to ex-convicts, continues to gain ground across the nation and around the globe. Freeway Ministries, co-founded in 2011 by John Stroup, Mike Aye and Rick Lechner of Crossway Baptist Church here, exists to help churches expand ministry into their communities, taking the gospel to the hard-to-reach so that they themselves will multiply disciples. “God is doing it,” … [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...]
Sweet smell of victory
“Smell this.” I’m trying to remember even one time in my life when I’ve been given that command and it’s turned out to be a pleasant experience. Surely there’s been one time. But the times that immediately pop to mind are the ones when someone has held out a container of chunky milk. Or when someone has come across questionable socks that have fallen between the clean pile of laundry and the dirty one. Having raised five kids, I can tell you there were way too many times people in my … [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...]
Gospel seeds planted as SBTC DR teams work in flooded Missouri
ST. LOUIS (BP) – Rainfall of historic proportions pummeled Missouri and Illinois along the Interstate 70 and 64 corridors on July 26, when an estimated 11 inches of rain fell in an eight-hour period, according to the National Weather Service. On Aug. 9, the Biden administration approved Missouri’s major disaster declaration request, almost two weeks following flash flooding that swamped the St. Louis metropolitan area, damaging more than 750 homes and 130 businesses, news sources … [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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