EWING – Frank Page was introduced as the “President and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee” to the assembled crowd at the association annual meeting here. But Page was quick to point out he likes to consider his title “Chief Encouragement Officer” as he travels to churches across the Southern Baptist Convention. Page was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Mt. Salem/Wyaconda Baptist Association at First Baptist, Ewing, on a recent Friday evening. He preached to the messengers … [Read more...]
LifeWay’s Francis hopes to see nationwide Sunday school revival
JEFFERSON CITY – God can still use Sunday school to build mission-minded disciples, and LifeWay’s David Francis hopes that one Missouri church’s attempt to revitalize its own Sunday school and small group programs will help to ignite a nationwide Sunday school revival. Concord Baptist Church here hosted a Sunday school revival, Aug. 23-24, featuring Francis, who serves as director of Sunday school at LifeWay Christian Resources. The two day revival was preceded by several weeks where the … [Read more...]
Cedar Grove members blanket the unborn, families in love
HOLTS SUMMIT – A group of women at Cedar Grove Baptist Church here are committed to wrapping women in crisis pregnancy situations, as well as their babies, in a blanket of love. Each year, these women – Chia Stafford, Debra Jett, Allene Bills, Joy Alberts, Cathy Hartley and Susan Klein (the legislative liaison for Missouri Right to Life) – make quilts together, and they’ll put their latest creations on sale at the Strawberry Festival Quilt Auction at First Baptist Church, Arnold, on June … [Read more...]
Deaf challenged to reach out
FULTON – The pastor asked the crowd to get into small groups to pray, and they did. But when they did, no heads were bowed, no eyes were closed and not a sound was heard. The pastor – Bob Barker of Plano, Texas’s StoryOne ministry – and the crowd were deaf. Instead of lifting up their prayer with voices, there were flurries of sign language as they prayed for more deaf to come to know Christ. It was part of the 60th anniversary and annual meeting of the Missouri Baptist Conference of the … [Read more...]
195 years later, church still serves
PIEDMONT – When membership falls to single digits, many churches consider shuttering the doors. This isn’t so for the Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church in rural Piedmont, which will mark 195 years on September 20. “It’s just a little church out in the sticks in the Ozarks. The closest small town is seven miles away,“ said pastor Jimmy Lemonds, who began his pastorate August 2. “I had preached there before, and they had nine people. My first concern was, I wasn’t sure how long it … [Read more...]
Freeway Ministries launch draws more than 100
OMAHA, Neb. — Freeway Ministries launched its newest program in Omaha on Saturday, August 1 the old fashioned way – by going door to door, sharing the gospel. A team of 20-plus people, all of whom came from the Springfield-based ministry, canvassed the downtown area earlier that morning to converse with the addicted, the poor, the tempted and the broken. One hundred and seven people responded to their invitation to attend the first meeting at the Omaha Baptist Center. “We didn’t have … [Read more...]
Mo. Baptist apologist Victor lifts high the resurrection
JEFFERSON CITY — The MBC has launched the Missouri Baptist Apologetics Network, a group of church leaders committed to the defense of the Christian faith and called to equip believers to more effectively share their faith. Learn more at mobaptist.org/apologetics. Following is a profile of Bill Victor, a member of the Leadership Development Team at the Missouri Baptist Convention and pastor of Missio Dei Church on the campus of the University of Missouri. To answer the hard questions … [Read more...]
Donner runs for girls harmed by abortion
HOLTS SUMMIT – Sharonda Donner never thought much about the harmful effects of abortion until it touched her own family. A few years ago, Donner learned that one of her family members, after having some abortions, suffered emotionally and even became suicidal. “We need to pray to end abortion,” Donner, now a member at Cedar Grove Baptist Church, Holts Summit, told her mother after learning about how this family member was suffering. “It is really destroying families—not only the baby … [Read more...]
‘To the ends of the earth’: Riverview carries gospel to Thailand
THAILAND – As soon as the mission team from Riverview Baptist Church in Osage Beach finished their presentation in the school, a line of children eager for autographs formed. “The only other Americans these children had ever seen are on TV, so they were excited,” said Spencer Plumlee, pastor at Riverview. “Each guy on our team had at least 30 students lining up around him. It was a great time to connect and encourage them.” During their recent mission trip, Riverview’s team and Paissons … [Read more...]
Wayland churchgoer ministers in workplace
WAYLAND — Jeff Boyd doesn’t see his ministry as doing much for God. But he has seen trucker attitudes change when he can engage them in spiritual conversation. Boyd, a member of Southern Baptist Fellowship Church in Wayland, loads and unloads trucks and loads acid in railroad cars for Climax in Keokuk, Iowa, which produces molybdenum products for other metal manufacturers. He had put a Gideon’s bible on a table in the truck driver’s lounge some six years ago. One day it was gone and a … [Read more...]
Five Defund Planned Parenthood rallies statewide Saturday
COLUMBIA – Pathway Editor and Director of Public Policy for the Missouri Baptist Convention Don Hinkle will be among the speakers at Saturday’s Defund Planned Parenthood Rally set for 10 a.m., here at the Planned Parenthood facility at 711 N. Providence Rd. Also speaking will be other pro-life leaders from government and the local community. The rally is one of five statewide – and more than 300 locations nationally – being held simultaneously to protest and raise awareness of abortion and … [Read more...]
Kansas City’s Clifton leads legacy church planting breakout
NASHVILLE – Amid all the young faces making up the crowd at the SEND Conference, there was also talk of the old. Not old Christians – though there were plenty represented – but old and dying churches that can see new life by being replanted to reach their communities for the gospel. Kansas City’s John Mark Clifton, along with First Baptist, Woodstock, Ga.’s Johnny Hunt, led an Aug. 4 break out session focusing on the idea of legacy church planting and revitalization for several hundred … [Read more...]
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