BRIAN KOONCE/staff writer bkoonce@mobaptist.org BOHOL ISLAND, The Philippines – It’s been two months since Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) hit the Philippines and more than three months since a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook the island of Bohol, but one Missouri Baptist church is continuing to make life a little better in one small village in the name of Jesus. Josie Rogers, a member of New Salem Baptist Church in Winfield, was born in the village of Loon on Bohol, though she has been in … [Read more...]
Risking marriage for Jesus
Don Graham/International Mission Board Editor’s note: Mary and John Harper* served in South Asia as Southern Baptist representatives through gifts to the Cooperative Program, which fund the presence and missions outreach of nearly 5,000 Southern Baptist personnel internationally. (*Name changed) CENTRAL ASIA (BP) – John Harper* had just blown it. The Missouri-born Southern Baptist missionary watched as a wave of anger washed over the face of his new friend, Rasheed,* whom he’d just … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists begin ongoing work on Filipino island
GIBITNGIL, the Philippines – While most of Missouri was wading through snow drifts and scraping ice off windshields, six Disaster Relief (DR) volunteers were wading out to an ocean-going canoe and reusing bent, rusty nails in an ongoing effort to rebuild a Filipino school damaged by November’s typhoon. Teams from Baptist churches across Missouri will be going to the tiny island through the middle of February – the first team returned just before Christmas – helping to rebuild a school … [Read more...]
Helping missionaries on furlough: Righteous Rides offers cars for the price of gasoline
MOSCOW MILLS – Righteous Rides meets a need for missionaries on furlough. Co-founders of the nonprofit organization, Bret Byus, member and deacon at First Baptist Church (FBC) Troy, and Mark Reighard, discovered this need through friendships from LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas. “LeTourneau is a Christian school,” Byus, Righteous Rides president, said. “So, we had lots of friends going to the mission field. We’ve been involved in their lives over the years, and when the family … [Read more...]
Native Filipino “man of prayer” Ed Moncada re “prayer walking, riding, for spiritual awakening”
Ed Moncada, a member of the Leadership Development Team for the Missouri Baptist Convention, shares about his life and work. Find more great interviews like this one at: http://www.haroldhendrick.com/ … [Read more...]
Saeed Abedini’s wife testifies before Congress
WASHINGTON (BP) – Less than two weeks before Christmas, Naghmeh Abedini testified before Congress on behalf of her husband, U.S. citizen and pastor Saeed Abedini, who has been imprisoned in Iran since last June because of his Christian faith. “My husband is suffering because he is a Christian,” Abedini said when she addressed a subcommittee hearing of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee on Dec. 12. “He is suffering because he is an American. Yet, his own government … [Read more...]
Christ is worthy of your generosity, your all
Tom Elliff/International Mission Board RICHMOND, Va. (BP) –Years ago, in my wife’s home church, the pastor received an unusual call on Sunday afternoon from the chairman of the church’s finance committee. That morning, the church had begun collecting its annual Lottie Moon Offering for International Missions. As they were tallying the results in order to give a report that evening, the committee found an interesting response in one envelope. The envelope had been turned inside out, and … [Read more...]
MBC churches reach the world in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS – The Lord is making connections to draw people from around the world to Christ, according to Tim Cowin, lead pastor of The Rock Church of St. Louis. “We have a culture based on Ephesians 6,” he said, “We want to equip the saints. When those come from different ethnic backgrounds, we embrace them with hearts passionate for ministry.” The mid-city, four-campus congregation at the Rock Church has seen many internationals come and go through the years. “We’ve had active … [Read more...]
TOBIN PERRY/North American Mission Board KANSAS CITY – Church planter Luis Mendoza didn’t know he was a church planter when he started doing it more than 20 years ago. A new believer, in the late 1980s, Mendoza thought building relationships with non-Christians, sharing Christ and starting up new Bible studies was just what Christians did. “I became a believer in 1989 when I came here to this country,” said Mendoza, a North American Mission Board (NAMB) church planter now in Kansas … [Read more...]
Lottie Moon Offering at work in midst of disaster
GIBITNGIL ISLAND, the Philippines – “I have a different heart for Lottie Moon Christmas offering than than I did this time last month. In 23 years pastoring I’ve promoted Lottie Moon, I’ve showed videos about Lottie Moon, I’ve heard missionaries talk about Lottie Moon, but I did not know anything until I stepped on the field in the Philippines,” said Dwain Carter, director of Disaster Relief for the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC). What changed Carter’s mind was his recent trip to the … [Read more...]
A simple sign: ‘Help’
Caroline Anderson/Baptist Press MANLAGTANG, Philippines – They are a poor village with beautiful teeth. Beyond that, the people of Manlagtang, Philippines, are in a world of hurt. Their village, however, is off the main road and most relief supplies were making their way to larger, more accessible towns and cities. So the residents of Manlagtang put a sign out on the road that said simply: “Help.” When a BGR assessment team saw the sign, they decided to make the short walk into … [Read more...]
Philippines: Rebuilding school paves the way to share the gospel
GIBITNGIL ISLAND, the Philippines – It’s a tiny island of 449 families accessible only by a 30-minute canoe ride, but Gibitngil island – just off the northwest tip larger island of Cebu – has been assigned to Missouri Baptists to help in its recovery, a move that opens the door for sharing the good news of Jesus along the way. The island, which measures less than one square mile, lies directly in the path of Typhoon Haiyan which hit the nation Nov. 8. More than 120,000 people evacuated … [Read more...]
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