EDITOR'S NOTE: This article includes additional reporting from Pathway staff. JEFFERSON CITY – Testimonials about the blessings of the 2025 Resound Summit poured in almost immediately after the one-day conference was done. Attendees were “wowed” and one exclaimed, “I’ve been attending MBC conferences for 50 years. This certainly ranks as one of the best I’ve been to.” The summit was held at Concord Baptist Church on Feb. 6. More than 200 were in attendance. In addition to the keynote … [Read more...]
‘Hear my cry for mercy’: MODR volunteers bring hope to California fire survivors
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (MODR) – Following any disaster, it’s only natural that the survivors want to recover anything that hasn’t been destroyed. It doesn’t matter whether they’ve experienced a flood, tornado or hurricane. The natural response is to locate any belongings that may have survived. Unfortunately, the situation is usually much worse following a widespread fire like those that occurred in Hawaii in August 2023 and more recently in southern California. When the entire house burns to … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptist volunteer missions team sees God working in Brazil
by Chris Doyle/IMB BRASILIA, Brazil (IMB) – Brandon Winkler felt a little uncomfortable, he said, when he was asked to lead worship on a Sunday morning in Brasilia, Brazil. He wasn’t uncomfortable in his guitar playing. He had played these songs before. The challenge for him was the setting. He stood on stage in a chapel of a rehab facility. The room was simple with white walls, white tile floor and wooden pews set up in two sections. The technology was in good shape with a quality … [Read more...]
‘Modern-day Macedonian call’: Online connection leads to partnership with Filipino church
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Chris Cook, pastor of Parkade Baptist, Columbia, didn’t know what to think when Pastor Mayinto Ganzon reached out to him on Facebook in November of 2023. Cook was a little skeptical at first, but he replied. “I wasn’t going to just delete the message, he said, “So I responded to figure out if he was real.” He was real. After some messaging back and forth, he agreed to lead an online Bible study for Ganzon’s congregation on the other side of the world, Grace … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptist Executive Board sets offering goals
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) executive board members meeting here, March 3-4, approved 2026 goals for statewide offerings, recommended an amendment to the MBC Nominating Committee’s rules and procedures, and created a Credentials Committee Guidelines Task Force. 2026 offering goals The board once again set the 2026 Cooperative Program goal at $15 million, and it set an $825,000 goal for the 2026 Missouri Missions Offering (MMO), to be distributed in 2027. The board … [Read more...]
WMU Mission Celebration, R.A. Congress set for April
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri WMU is getting ready for two mission events and registration is open online at mowmu.org. WMU Mission Celebration Mission Celebration will be April 4-5 at First Baptist, Kirksville. Everyone is invited to this two-day conference focused on hearing what God is doing in Missouri, North America and around the world, as well as equipping individuals, groups and churches to make disciples. This year Lindsay Wineinger, President of Illinois WMU, will be our keynote … [Read more...]
Missouri DR’s Ann Stevenson receives national award
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Anyone who knows Ann Stevenson is used to seeing her with a chaplain’s shirt and badge—accompanied by her trauma-trained dog, Steele—as she visits with victims of disaster. Or maybe they’ve seen her provide key leadership in MODR childcare. However, Stevenson recently took versatility to another level when she coordinated two disaster relief responses in Pulaski County, where she lives, within seven months of each other. That’s just one of the reasons she was … [Read more...]
Missouri DR volunteers go extra mile in relief efforts
PERRYVILLE, Mo. – “Helping churches transform lives and communities with the gospel by bringing help, hope, and healing” is the motivating force behind the Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (MODR). Putting feet to the ground, two MODR teams recently did just that in the communities of Waynesville, Duke and Perryville, Mo. Not only did they provide the tools to repair damaged property, but they shared God’s love to repair damaged lives. It was this past November when MODR unit leader Dan … [Read more...]
Overflow Church ‘saturates community with the overflowing love of Jesus’
GRANDVIEW – Overflow Church in the Kansas City suburb of Grandview, hopes to reach its community for Christ though a mission of “saturating (the) community with the overflowing love of Jesus.'" (See related story here.) Pastor Alan Findley says the recent church plant is doing that by blending its congregation with another, and through partnerships with other established churches. Overflow began in 2020 as a new church work of NAMB’s SEND program, and Blue Valley Church across the state … [Read more...]
Octogenarian couple aim to be ‘part of what God is doing’ at church plant
GRANDVIEW – Their mid-80s seemed a perfect time for Conrad and Donna Krieger to jump into a new work as church planters when Overflow Church began in a suburban area of young families and varied ethnicities. (See related story here.) And, for a couple used to traveling around the country in a motorhome with their family to sing in small churches, moving though several Kansas City locations as Overflow found a permanent building was nothing new. The Kriegers attended Blue Valley Church in … [Read more...]
Conference to equip families to care for aging loved ones
FLORISSANT – Support for those tasked with caring for aging loved ones is the goal of a special conference to be held on Feb. 22 at Salem Baptist Church in Florissant. “Finding Hope During Family Crises,” a five-hour event, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., will feature four guest speakers from a variety of agencies and disciplines concerned with aging and the challenges that go with family care. “So many families are taken more or less by surprise by the issues that come about when … [Read more...]
Bismarck FBC makes disciples, builds community connections
BISMARCK – Making connections and disciples is the focus of the ministries at First Baptist Church (FBC), Bismarck. The church builds connections with the community and equips mature Christians to disciple younger Christians. “Our missions committee had funds that we wanted to use to bless the community,” Eddie Wakefield, co-chair of the missions committee, said. “We made up 8-10 groups of a mix of youth with older adults, gave them funds and told them to find people in the community that … [Read more...]
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