EDITOR’S NOTE: After the Missouri Baptist Foundation’s (MBF) subsidiary Straighway Holdings, Inc. (SHI) purchased Windermere last month (see story, here), MBF and SHI President Neil Franks agree to answered several questions about the purchase. The following is a transcript of the interview. Prior to answering the questions via email, Franks also gave the following statement in writing  to The Pathway: “Our goal was to secure the property of the campground commonly known as Windermere … [Read more...]

CAMDENTON – The Windermere Baptist Conference Center (WBCC) may have a new lease on life after being bought off the steps of the Camden County Courthouse, Dec. 11, following the campground’s “non-judicial foreclosure.” Straightway Holdings, Inc. (SHI), a subsidiary of the Missouri Baptist Foundation (MBF), put in the highest bid on the courthouse steps, gaining ownership of Windermere for $4.745 million. The property was purchased with a loan from WatersEdge Ministry Services, which “is … [Read more...]

HANNIBAL – Two Lady Trojan team members gave ‘Soccer Mom’ a new connotation this season, which finished in early November. The traditional understanding of the ‘soccer mom’ term is a mother who takes her children to play in soccer games. The way two Trojans lived it, they played collegiate soccer as they enjoyed motherhood. Defenders Shelby Echelmeier and Sarah Rapp have each graduated from HLGU, but each had a year of playing eligibility left. Both of them are also mothers, Sarah to … [Read more...]

BRANSON – Despite being “disappointed” with this year’s nominating committee process, Southwest Baptist University (SBU) leaders chose not to dispute a slate of new SBU trustee nominees presented to Missouri Baptist messengers at their annual meeting here, Oct. 28-29. “Last Wednesday (Oct. 23), we received information from the nominating committee that our entire proposed trustee slate was rejected,” SBU President Eric Turner said in his Oct. 29th report at the Missouri Baptist … [Read more...]

HANNIBAL – Studying the Bible while seated in Old or New Testament Survey is one thing, but Hannibal-LaGrange University offers another way to help students appreciate Scripture. HLGU partners with Passages, a program sponsored by the Philos Project and the Museum of the Bible Foundation to help students experience nine days in the Holy Land at a fraction of the normal cost. Thirty-seven students traveled to Israel earlier this year with several HLGU faculty, each paying less than … [Read more...]

ST. LOUIS – Karen Kannenberg, dean of the Missouri Baptist University School of Business, learned early lessons in faith as well as in business as a youth working in her family’s apparel business in rural Alabama. “I would watch my dad – he’s the one who would actually run the business day to day,” Kannenberg recalled. “He was a wonderful Christian and quick to witness to people – including shoplifters. “Rather than prosecute them, he would witness to them,” she said with a chuckle. “Some … [Read more...]

BY STAFF BRIDGETON – Because of privacy concerns, stories about the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home’s impact on the Kingdom must be told with changed names and without photos. That, however, does not lessen the impact made on thousands of children and families through the last 130 years. Whether it’s through adoption, foster care, training, rescuing sex trafficking survivors or offer pregnancy resources, Missouri Baptist Children’s Home is committed to serving God by responding to the … [Read more...]