DELTA/MACON, Mo. – First Baptist Church (FBC) of Delta and Macon FBC encountered long-lasting revitalization through Resound Network’s ReFocus program. This program provides clarity on six imperative aspects of a church’s ministry: vision, mission, values, strategy, goals, and annual plans. While this can be done by forming a cohort that meets over a period of months, these two churches participated in the 3-day intensive workshop. ReFocus, according to Pastor Phil Bray of Macon FBC, … [Read more...]
SBU’s annual festival of Christmas set for Dec. 8
BOLIVAR, Mo. (SBU) – The 44th annual Festival of Christmas, presented by Southwest Baptist University and Community Outreach Ministries, will take place at 6 p.m., Sunday, December 8, in Pike Auditorium on SBU’s Bolivar campus. Bolivar area residents are invited to celebrate the Christmas season at this free holiday program, which brings together area churches of Bolivar for a spectacular Christmas celebration each year. "The Festival of Christmas is a highlight of the Advent season,” … [Read more...]
Quilting ministry helps hurting women, children
WARRENSBURG – A quilt is generally made from fabric pieces that are sewn together. Perhaps there is no better fitting illustration of broken lives being put together, as happens with clients of the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home, foster children and unwed mothers. “Pat’s Saturday Sew Day” is the Grover Park Baptist quilt ministry, and in less than two years, it has given away 277 quilts, and counting. In about 2015, a monthly sewing club was started for those who wanted to learn … [Read more...]
Pastor, wife team pass baton of leadership to teenagers
ALTON – It doesn’t take more than five minutes of talking to David Case to learn three things: he loves Jesus; he and his wife, Rosemary, are an inseparable team; and he is passionate about passing the leadership baton to young people in the church. High school sweethearts who grew up in Oregon County, Mo., David and Rosemary got married right after high school in 1966, ready to start their lives together with promising jobs lined up. Just two weeks later, David got his draft notice. They … [Read more...]
MBU, Missouri Baptist Foundation award John Mason Peck Institute Fellow Scholarship to Michael T. Byrd Sr.
ST. LOUIS (MBU) – The John Mason Peck Institute at Missouri Baptist University has awarded its first Fellow Scholarship to Michael T. Byrd Sr. in conjunction with the Missouri Baptist Foundation. The award was presented by Dr. Keith Ross, president of MBU; Dr. Neil Franks, president and treasurer of the Missouri Baptist Foundation; and Dr. Aaron Lumpkin, associate vice president for Spiritual Formation and assistant professor of Theology. The John Mason Peck Institute at MBU exists … [Read more...]
Inserra urges Missouri Baptists to be light, salt in a dark, decaying world
ST. CHARLES – Dean Inserra, founding and lead pastor of City Church in Tallahassee, Fla., described a social media meme, “If Paul could see the church in America today, we’d be getting a letter!” “We’ve already got a letter to the Corinthians, Galatians,” he told Missouri Baptists, Oct. 29. “All are relevant and inerrant.” Inserra then focused his sermon on the letter in Jeremiah 29. “This letter was written to a people in exile,” he said. “God wanted the people to understand His … [Read more...]
Trinity Baptist, St. Mary, finds renewal after aligning ministries with mission
ST. MARY – In 2020 Trinity Baptist Church in St. Mary was experiencing declining membership and had an average worship attendance of around 30. However, the congregation wasn’t ready to close the doors. The church’s biggest strength was it didn’t give up,” Pastor Ed Carter says. “It kept on going even though (the members) knew they didn’t have much strength or power left.” St. Mary is about an hour and a half south of St. Louis. Carter became the church’s pastor in August 2020. He led … [Read more...]
First-Person: ‘No better way to spend a summer’ than with Missouri DR
EDITOR'S NOTE: College student Michelle Ryan has served for a few years as a collegiate intern with Missouri Disaster Relief (MODR). JEFFERSON CITY (MODR) – With the devastating scale of this year’s hurricane destruction filling the news, human efforts to help can feel futile. That feeling of despair and the inability to do something eventually gives way to a much more tolerable feeling of apathy, which I believe characterizes the attitudes of many college students like me. After all, … [Read more...]
Conference, luncheon highlight biblical truths for women during Missouri Baptist gathering
‘Befriend faithfulness’: Women’s Conference features MBC executive director’s wife by Pathway staff A Women’s Conference was hosted, Oct. 28, in conjunction with the Missouri Baptist Pastors’ Conference. The event also included worship led by Missouri Baptist University’s Spirit Wing, a presentation by the MBC Ministry Wives Network, and a message from Tanya York, wife of Southern Seminary’s Hershael York. The conference also featured Tara Fowler, wife of MBC Executive Director Wes … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptist WMU groups use craft project to teach about Cooperative Program
CONWAY – Working together on a hands-on project is a key learning principle for children. The Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) has tapped into that principle with a craft project for teaching about the Cooperative Program. The children in mission groups, summer camps and Vacation Bible Schools across the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) are making craft stick units to help them understand how the 47,000 churches in the SBC work together through the Cooperative Program (CP) for the sake of … [Read more...]
Accreditor confirms HLGU turnaround, removes university from probation
HLGU praised for improvements in financial stability, enrollment growth, budget management HANNIBAL, Mo. (HLGU) – The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) announced earlier this month that Hannibal-LaGrange University (HLGU) has been removed from probation. HLGU leaders see the decision as marking a new era of strength, stability and growth for the institution. And they believe this positive development underscores the HLGU's commitment to ensuring a strong future for its students and … [Read more...]
MBC’s Bennett to join Silver Dollar City as chaplain
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Director of Making Disciples Brad Bennett will be leaving the MBC staff at the end of the year to pursue another ministry venture in Branson. According to an Oct. 7 memo to MBC staff, Bennett will become, in January 2025, the chaplain for Silver Dollar City, White Water, Branson Showboat Belle, and the Silver Dollar City Campground. This news was also announced to MBC messengers during their annual meeting, Oct. 28-29, in St. Charles. “In … [Read more...]
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