OZARK – From Town Square to busy highway, First Baptist, Ozark continues to serve the community. FBC Ozark, established in 1868, met on the town square until the new building was constructed near the highway in 1993. The mission for the church is to share the gospel with the entire area. “We use the Sunday School as the foundation of our ministry,” Chuck Ross, minister of education, said. “We believe that the Sunday school system accomplishes the five tasks of the church.” Ross outlined … [Read more...]
Each MBC church receiving voter registration packets
JEFFERSON CITY— Just days before Missouri’s presidential primary election registration deadline, the Christian Life Commission (CLC) of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) is embarking on an aggressive campaign to ensure Missouri Baptists’ voices are heard. “Estimates are there are 100,000 Christians in Missouri who are not registered to vote,” said CLC Chairman David Krueger, pastor, First Baptist Church, Linn. “Obviously some of those are Missouri Baptists. Our job is to encourage … [Read more...]
Haitian orphans get love, hope from Red Bridge, KC
KANSAS CITY – Red Bridge Baptist Church, Kansas City, owns and operates the Haiti Home of Hope for impoverished Haiti children. In January, they celebrated their 13th anniversary. But the orphanage does more than feed, clothe and educate the children. The ministry also reaches out and serves the entire community. “In addition to the directors, Bill and Jennifer Campbell, who came out of our church and live on site,” Victor Borden, senior pastor, said, “we employ about 25 locals. We are the … [Read more...]
New church plant plans to reach military families
KNOB NOSTER – To best understand the needs of the military, one needs military connections. That’s one reason Craig Coppenbarger is helping develop Valor Church near Whiteman Air Force Base near Knob Noster. “The military is its own culture, they have their own language. There are always common threads among the military,” Coppenbarger said. Coppenbarger was called to the ministry in high school, and served for a time with the Air Force. He had been a youth pastor at Second Baptist, … [Read more...]
18 accept Christ in wake of floods
ARNOLD – The initial disaster response is wrapping up, but the recovery for flood victims in the St. Louis area – and the follow up for more than 600 ministry contacts is just getting started. “There are still teams out working, and I think we have about another week, maybe a week and a half worth of work to do,” said Dwain Carter director of Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief. “We’ve closed the Arnold site and we’re still working in West Alton and Eureka.” The volunteer days are above … [Read more...]
Ridgecrest Springfield shines gospel light globally
SPRINGFIELD – From Montreal, the Middle East and Ecuador to Branson and the homes in their own neighborhoods, the leadership and members of Ridgecrest Baptist Church here have committed to transforming lives through the gospel. “I don’t think you can create a better vision than what Jesus already gave to the church, which was to go and make disciples,” Chad Grayson, pastor of Ridgecrest, said. “We want to be a church that is making Christ-centered disciples of all nations.” During … [Read more...]
After sharing prison cell with daughter, mother finds Christ
SPRINGFIELD – Sandy Harrell had been imprisoned at the Chillicothe Correctional Center for a few months when a guard told her that her daughter would be there soon. And not just to pay her mother a visit. Harrell’s youngest child, Casey, was about to join her in prison. The chaotic life of using and selling methamphetamine had caught up with them—again. “I’d been in jail before, but never with my daughter. That’s when reality slapped me in the face,” Harrell said. “She and I were in our … [Read more...]
Ferguson area churches merge for ministry
FERGUSON – “Double” has an impact on the future for the First Baptist Church of Ferguson/Passage Community Church replants. “Both congregations have joined together,” Joe Costephens, lead pastor, said, “to bring the most glory to God and to do what we were created to do as the body of Christ, to represent Him.” Stoney Shaw, former pastor of FBC Ferguson, described a new attitude in the unified church. “It gives the church new life and it sets the people free to reach out even more to the … [Read more...]
MISSOURI FLOODING: God working through wet grind in Arnold
ARNOLD — The devastation and destruction in Arnold is unbelievable according to the disaster relief volunteers. “These homes are a complete tear out,” Arlin Hadler, disaster relief volunteer and director of the Cape Girardeau Association chainsaw recovery unit said, “the basements and the upper floors were flooded. We’ve gone in and torn out everything including furniture and appliances.” Hadler said the follow up to the demolition is to go in and power wash. “We spray the entire house … [Read more...]
Counselor lends professional ear in flood zone
PACIFIC – It’s not as glamorous as wielding a chainsaw or cranking through a few thousand meals a day, but chaplains are playing a role in Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (DR) as volunteers bring help, hope and healing to St. Louisans in need. Rhonda Myers, a member of South Ridge Baptist in Jefferson City, is one of those lay chaplains. By day, she is a licensed professional counselor. But over New Years, she took her professional role, donned a yellow DR hat, and lent a friendly ear to … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief responding to flood disaster
Missouri Baptist Convention Disaster Relief (MBC DR) teams converged on communities throughout the state in recent days to aid victims of historic flooding caused by more than 10 inches of rain over a three-day period that began the day after Christmas, leaving thousands homeless and killing at least 24 people in Missouri and Illinois. MBC Executive Director John Yeats made a New Year’s Eve plea for donations to the convention’s Disaster Relief teams and asked people to pray for volunteer … [Read more...]
Clinton church raises $2.5 million for missions
CLINTON – Two-and-a-half million dollars seems like a lot of money. Many Missouri Baptist churches will not handle that kind of cash in several decades or a hundred years. But a western Missouri county seat town church has generated that much or more for funding missions efforts in the last decade. After a mission celebration which highlighted the need of missionary efforts, the First Baptist Church of Clinton began sending out mission teams and doing missions in their local community. … [Read more...]
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