JEFFERSON CITY – As catalyst (strategic leader) for Making Disciples for the Missouri Baptist Convention, Dr. Matt Kearns has served under the direction of Executive Director Dr. John Yeats to lead a multi-year effort to reorient the MBC staff around a restated vision and mission. The vision of the MBC missionary staff is: “Transforming lives and communities with the gospel.” The mission for all MBC missionaries is: “Cooperating with Missouri Baptists to make disciples, multiply … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists partner in Italy
VENETO, Italy – From the moment he arrived in Belluno, Italy, Jeremy Sells soaked in everything he saw and heard. And this province with a population of nearly 200,000 people had plenty to take in, since it is located in the Alps of northern Italy and in a country that has Christian monuments dating back hundreds—if not more than 1,000—years. But nothing prepared Sells, pastor of First Baptist Church, Scott City, for a meeting he and his mission team had with a local evangelical pastor. … [Read more...]
Noland Road offers gospel transformation
INDEPENDENCE – Noland Road Baptist Church here has partners with ministries around the nation and around the globe to reach people with the gospel, but they also come alongside more than a dozen local ministries to help transform lives in their own community. On the local level, these “Global Focus Ministries” include Lullaby of Hope, a member-started ministry that reaches out to women who struggle with infertility or who are grieving because of a miscarriage, still birth or infant death … [Read more...]
Potosi Southern grows the old fashioned way
POTOSI – It doesn’t take a fancy program or a fog machine to make a healthy, growing church. All it takes is God’s Spirit at work. That’s what is happening at Potosi Southern Baptist Church, a growing and thriving congregation of 200 in a community of 2,600. “There’s no secret,” said Pastor Wayne Isgriggs. “The Lord isn’t a secret. We’re working hard to mobilize each member. We’re a church of prayer in a very dedicated way. We’re a praising church. They’re happy in the Lord; ‘Praise the … [Read more...]
KC churches develop leaders, reach out to refugees in Africa
OAK GROVE – Pastor Randy Messer of First Baptist Church here walked into a classroom in the Horn of Africa and heard voices, crying out and pleading to someone, but he saw no one. But as Messer stepped further into the room, he found the source of these cries. A group of young pastors had come to class earlier, where they knelt on the floor praying and crying out to the Lord. These would be Messer’s students for the next several days. “How powerful that was,” Messer said. “The presence of … [Read more...]
Hillcrest, Lebanon, expands ministry space
LEBANON – A vision over a decade in the making now stands completed here in Lebanon. With the help of an army of Constructors for Christ, Hillcrest Baptist Church recently finished and dedicated its new Family Life Center, an over 10,000 square-foot facility including classrooms, a commercial kitchen, and a gym. Members of Hillcrest Baptist had long known that the church could use additional ministry space, particularly for recreational activities and special events. Over the last ten … [Read more...]
Glasses ministy helps Mexico hear – and see – gospel
CHIAPAS, Mexico – At 98 years old, Domingo Lopez had never laid eyes on a foreigner. But, thanks to Concord Baptist Church in Jefferson City, when he finally did meet them at one of four eyeglasses clinics in the southern state of Chiapas, he could see them clearly. Lopez was one of hundreds ministered to through an eyeglasses clinic put on by Concord, the latest of 19 such mission trips over the past six years that began when Larry Merry was part of a medical missions trip and realized he … [Read more...]
Evangelist Adrian has heart for sharing gospel with others
BROOKEFIELD – One of the newest members of the Fellowship of Missouri Baptist Evangelists is Ron Adrian. But long before he joined the group, he was sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. “I’ve been with the Fellowship about a year, but I’ve been doing evangelism for a lot of years. I’ve been a pastor for a lot of years and evangelism has been a part of it all the time,” Adrian said. “Now I’ve gone into regular evangelism.” For about two years, when Adrian moved to Springfield after … [Read more...]
Acts 1:8 is basis for Canaan Baptist’s mission
ST. LOUIS – Canaan Baptist Church in St. Louis not only set Acts 1:8 as a mission focus verse, but the church with a Sunday attendance average of 575 practices this. Pastor Daniel Carr said the verse challenges believers to reach Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the earth. For Canaan, four major projects comprise the Jerusalem segment. “We’ve identified our Jerusalem as the greater St. Louis area. First, We did an Easter egg drop from a helicopter. We did this for … [Read more...]
Water in a dry, thirsty land
KANSAS CITY – In the fall of 2013, five members from Norfleet Baptist Church here set out to East Africa in their first effort to reach a people group thirsty for the living water of the gospel. Since that time church members have reached hundreds of people and have helped to plant five churches. 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 small congregation in Southeast Kansas City. With … [Read more...]
First Baptist Lebanon ‘glazes over’ donut debacle
LEBANON – Forget the worship wars, unwavering biblical stances on changing social issues or King James vs. more modern Bible translations; First Baptist Church here found itself in the creamy center of the most Baptist of Baptist controversies: donut loyalty. First Baptist Church here jumped at the opportunity to host Hurts Donut, a Springfield-based donut chain, for a one-time, food truck donut sale in the church’s parking lot Feb. 4. It was a simple plan that got more complicated than … [Read more...]
Scalia’s death clouds abortion, religious liberty cases
WASHINGTON (BP) – The death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia not only brings about a battle over replacing him and elevates the Supreme Court as an issue in the presidential election, but it likely will affect two important cases in this term, including one involving pro-life laws that Missouri Baptists have supported and another about religious liberty. A third case, also involving religious liberty and with direct ties to Missouri, may not be impacted by Scalia’s absence immediately, … [Read more...]
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