SPRINGFIELD – Don Wilson has seen the difference the Word of God makes in childrens’ lives. The volunteer from Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Springfield is the go-to person for Bible Drill in Missouri. “The thing I’ve always loved about Bible Drill is it teaches kids to use the Bible,” he said. “They open it, they learn key passages, they learn where things are. If they stay in it, in three years they’ll learn 30 key passages that they can find at any time. They learn the books of the … [Read more...]
Churches combine resources for youth event
HALLSVILLE – Baptist cooperation isn’t just limited to missions giving. Crossroads Baptist Association proved that with Challenge D-Now youth conference, Feb. 17-19. “We had four joint worship services with a band and small groups in between,” said Jason Kramer, pastor of Sturgeon Baptist. We ate together and played games together.” The events included about a dozen participating churches, including some outside of the Crossroads Association. “Our goal was to challenge people with the … [Read more...]
Feats of strength amaze Unionville teens
UNIONVILLE – Bubba Dowling stood in the high school gymnasium and people were amazed at his muscles as Pastor Jeff Harlan introduced him to the assembled crowd. His arms were the size of hams and his upper body strength shown to be tremendous--the result of about 20 years of competitive power weight lifting and constant training. Dowling and his associate, Ivan Frietas, were in the Putnam County High School to demonstrate strong man feats but their underlying purpose was to share their … [Read more...]
DOMs aim to focus churches on Great Commission
SPRINGFIELD – Missouri’s directors of missions are concerned for their member churches and hope to help them gain a better focus on the Great Commission. In a breakfast meeting during the Great Commission conference, DOM Fellowship president David Mifflin, of Fellowship Baptist Association, Warsaw, convened the group for announcements and fellowship time. Around the tables the DOMs reacted to the speakers they had been listening to the day prior. Mifflin said he thought the two biggest … [Read more...]
CP, MMO help church plants take ‘next steps’
SIKESTON – Many hurdles line the path of a successful church plant, and sometimes a new congregation can use a boost so it can move on to the next phase of transforming lives and communities with the gospel. The hurdles can be spiritual, but they also can be as mundane as too few chairs, or lights that are too dim to allow for webcasting, or the lack of a video camera to help share new believers’ stories on social media. That’s where Next Steps Requests come in, and where the gifts of … [Read more...]
Tower View Baptist embraces prayer ministry
KANSAS CITY – It’s a great view at Tower View Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri. The congregation with a gospel-centered, and Christ-serving vision has been praying for other area congregations. This ministry for other local churches started in April 2015 when Pastor Darin Smith began ministering at Tower View. Initially prayers were random. Then in 2016, they began praying for their affiliated association and local congregations. “On the first Sunday in 2016, we started praying … [Read more...]
DOM’s prayer journey benefits churches
WARSAW – He arrived at the rural church with his sword in-hand and a purposeful determination on his face. Thoughts of a circuit-riding preacher of the frontier era came to mind, though only for a passing moment as this Bible-yielding clergyman arrived in a climate-controlled club cab pick-up truck rather than on a horse and saddle, and his doctrine was Baptist, not Methodism most akin to those early riders. Poplar Baptist Church was the second of three stops on the route this particular … [Read more...]
Impact church lives up to name
FESTUS – A church plant here is living up to its name in servicing the Lord. “We want to love God and love people with the Great Command (‘Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, strength…) and with the Great Commission,” said pastor Scott Douglas. Douglas and wife Theresa, both Hannibal-LaGrange graduates, were in different churches since the mid 1990s serving in student, music, and children’s ministries. "I had the opportunity to serve in full-time church staff in the area. In early … [Read more...]
Sharing a vision: Leading BBF church affiliates with MBC, SBC
SPRINGFIELD – The shared vision of transforming lives and communities with the gospel has led High Street Baptist Church here, a historically independent church whose pastor serves as president of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBFI), to affiliate with the Missouri Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention. “We didn’t feel like we needed to sustain an artificial separation from the people in this town and state that are so much like us in participating in the same … [Read more...]
South County hosts ‘Night to Shine’
ST. LOUIS – It’s not unusual for churches to roll out a figurative red carpet, but South County Baptist Church here literally rolled out the red carpet for 107 “VIP guests” Feb. 10, complete with “paparazzi.” The church also hosted limo rides, hair and makeup stations, corsages and boutonnieres, shoe shines, professional photography, dinner, a DJ, karaoke and a dance as part of Night to Shine, a partnership between the Tim Tebow Foundation and 375 churches worldwide to provide an … [Read more...]
Oldham: ‘St. Louis should be a sanctuary for the unborn’
ST. LOUIS – A proposed amendment to St. Louis’ non-discrimination ordinance would threaten religious liberty and would lay “the groundwork for making St. Louis a sanctuary city for abortion,” according to Noah Oldham, elder at August Gate Church here and North American Mission Board SEND City Coordinator for St. Louis. The proposed amendment, Board Bill 203, would change St. Louis’ anti-discrimination ordinance by placing pregnancy and reproductive health decisions—including the decision … [Read more...]
Go, pray, proclaim, repeat
NEOSHO – For a decade, Calvary Baptist has been on mission in Thailand and in Africa. One truth coming from both locales is the need for repeat visits. The work in Africa “Calvary was a guinea pig for the engaging churches that the IMB started. Rick Hedger (now MBC staff) was pastor before I came,” said current pastor Roger Brumley. “First we had to “find the (African) people group we had adopted,” Brumley said. Through the years, they found and ministered to them in Guinea-Bissau, … [Read more...]
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