ST. LOUIS – Missouri pastors and wives benefitted from respective conferences at the SBC annual meeting June 12-13. Jonathan Wallenbach and Bryce Kristoffereson were among first-time national annual meeting attendees. “We run 35 people in our church. It was economical for me to come to St. Louis,” Wallenbach, the pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist in Deep Water, said. “For me, I get fed as a pastor’s conference just like at the MBC annual meeting. We need to get back to the business of what … [Read more...]
Missourians react to resolution on Confederate battle flag
ST. LOUIS – Reactions were pretty much in agreement among Missourians interviewed at the SBC Annual Meeting following the adoption of a resolution on the Confederate Battle Flag, June 14. The Pathway spoke to some of those Missourians for a take on their perspective on the issue, which garnered the most debate of all the resolutions passed by the convention. The resolution asked Baptists not to fly the Confederate Battle Flag as a sign of respect to African-American brothers and … [Read more...]
St. Louis Apostles Church works to bridge racial divide
ST. LOUIS – Delmar Boulevard, also known as The Delmar Divide, crosses St. Louis from east to west and features million-dollar mansions directly to the south and poverty-stricken areas to its north. The neighborhood is also racially divided; south of Delmar is 70 percent white and north of Delmar is 98 percent black. But Missouri Baptist Convention Church Planter Todd Genteman believes that God can unite people divided by such natural barriers. That’s why Genteman, pastor of Apostles … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists multiply church at home, globally
JEFFERSON CITY – In the fall of 2013, five members from Norfleet Baptist Church of Kansas City set out to East Africa in their first effort to reach a people group thirsty for the gospel. Since that time, church members have reach hundreds of people and have helped to plant five churches in the region. When they return this fall, they expect to witness 200 baptisms. “It’s a Gideon thing for us to do this,” said Scott Flippin, pastor of the congregation of roughly 65. But, through the grace … [Read more...]
Church invites homeless to new life in Christ
NEVADA – When they first met, Pine Street Baptist Church member Ron Smith knew that God had something special in store for Gabe Kincheloe. And he told Kincheloe so, not that Smith would have blamed Kincheloe if he had his doubts about this. Like many others who walk into Pine Street Baptist’s New Life Homeless Shelter here, Kincheloe was at the end of his rope. “The reason I came to the shelter was because I had a drinking problem, and I went through a divorce. And this made it a lot … [Read more...]
A transformed life: Springfield woman saved from life of drugs, adultery
SPRINGFIELD – Transformed by the power of the Gospel, a former Jehovah’s Witness with a history of abortion, drugs, and adultery, now lives to see that same power transform the lives of others. Jessie McDaris of Springfield recently shared her story with the desire that more people would experience the life-changing love of Christ. McDaris spent her early childhood years in a devout Jehovah’s Witness family. Following the teaching of the church, the family did not celebrate birthdays or … [Read more...]
Pastor Joe Costephens: What I want you to know about Ferguson
FERGUSON – The protests and unrest following the death of Michael Brown in 2014 present a striking image of the Ferguson community, one that pastor Joe Costephens says is incomplete, if not totally wrong. “I don’t want to call it business as usual, but things have calmed down,” he said. “Now that we’re almost two years out, we’re making progress and moving forward as a community. “It’s neat to see. There are a lot of good, Christian people – not just Southern Baptists – refocusing on the … [Read more...]
Odessa shows love in mission effort
ODESSA – First Baptist Church here ramped up its efforts to transform lives within their community this spring. For several years, First Odessa has had a passion for missions. For three years, they have sent a team to Nicaragua. For six years, they’ve been to Brazil. A mission team of 90 will go to Minneapolis in July. Yet Mission Pastor David Vailes said that some people in the community, as well as in the church, expressed concern that they were not doing enough to reach people with the … [Read more...]
Husband’s death leads to passion for the lost
ST. LOUIS — Many of her atheist friends think it’s funny that she goes to church, but Sarah Klausner doesn’t mind. She attends local atheist meetings to make new friends and gain understanding of what atheists believe. But sometimes she even adds to the conversation. “They once challenged me with 15 parts of the Bible that they thought was contradictory,” she said. “Each time I showed them how they didn’t contradict. They respect the fact that I’m a follower of Christ who actually knows … [Read more...]
5 years later, Joplin bouncing back from deadly tornado
JOPLIN – With sirens wailing, Greg Hailey closed his Bible, put it safely in a nylon satchel and used it to rest his head. Harmony Heights Baptist Church had no basement, but Hailey and 52 others took cover as best they could as a tornado interrupted their evening worship service May 22, 2011. “There were about 10 or so of us in the library,” he said, “and there were others in the nursery. That’s the older part of the church with smaller rooms and better-built walls. We had maybe 10 … [Read more...]
Missouri pastor Malachi O’Brien to be 2nd VP nominee
ST. LOUIS (BP) – Missouri pastor Malachi O'Brien will be nominated for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Oklahoma pastor Brad Graves announced May 31. O'Brien has been pastor of The Church at Pleasant Ridge in Kansas City-area Harrisonville since 2011 and associate pastor of prayer and church revitalization at nearby First Baptist Church in Raytown, Mo., since 2014. He is immediate past president of the Missouri Baptist Convention Pastors' Conference and has … [Read more...]
FBC Ferguson’s Joe Costephens speaks on Crossover 2016
In spite of all the negative realities of now famous Ferguson, Joe Costephens – now Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Ferguson – sees the crisis resulting in wide-open opportunities to spread the good news of Jesus! Hear him talk about it in his own words in this exciting interview with Harold Hendrick. … [Read more...]
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