ST. LOUIS – Missouri Baptist University Trustees approved new graduate programs, faculty appointments and extended President Keith Ross’ contract at their regularly scheduled meeting June 11. “The Trustees are pleased with MBU’s administration and faculty and their assistance this past 15 months in transitioning MBU back to a legal entity of the Missouri Baptist Convention,” said Jim Plymale, chairman of the board. “During that time, the Trustees have completed a comprehensive … [Read more...]
Derek Tamm has been selected to serve as the new acting administrative coordinator of The Baptist Home-Ashland campus
ASHLAND – The Baptist Home Corporate Office is pleased to announce that Derek Tamm has been selected to serve as the new acting administrative coordinator for its Ashland campus. He assumed the position on June 1, 2020, in preparation for the retirement of Founding Administrator Steve Long. Both Steve and his wife, Joyce, will retire on June 30, 2020, after serving The Baptist Home for more than six years. Derek will oversee daily operations at Ashland as well as the Phase 1 construction … [Read more...]
Southwest Baptist adopts strategic changes for future sustainability
BOLIVAR – Southwest Baptist University President Dr. Eric A. Turner presented to employees on June 2 the University Sustainability Plan designed to guide the University through current and future disruptions to higher education. The University is nearly two years into a strategic planning process, Shaping our Story Together. The Sustainability Plan was formed by the process and works in tandem with the overall strategic plan. Changes will be implemented throughout the next two academic … [Read more...]
‘Parenting from the pew’ – Windermere to host online workshop to help parents, ministers disciple children as churches reopen
ROACH – As Missouri Baptist churches have grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, many have decided to cancel children’s Sunday school classes and other programs. According to Teresa Huddleston, this presents an opportunity for churches across the state to refresh the way they think about children’s ministry. For nearly three decades, Huddleston – the wife of Windermere President Tim Huddleston – has served in children’s ministry. And she sees parents as essential for the discipleship of … [Read more...]
‘Exploring His creation’ – Former NASA engineer, MBU professor marvels at SpaceX launch
ST. LOUIS – During the 1990s, Jerry Deese was part of a team at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories that partnered with NASA on various engineering problems. His resume features phrases like, “equations of fluid mechanics at speeds ranging from subsonic to hypersonic,” and “nonlinear partial differential equations based on explicit time-stepping techniques and including models for turbulence and non-equilibrium chemical kinetic effects.” But while those phrases are incomprehensible to … [Read more...]
‘Superheroes’ celebrated at The Baptist Home
JEFFERSON CITY – The Baptist Home honored its healthcare workers as “modern-day superheroes” during National Skilled Nursing Care Week, May 10-16. Since 1967, the American Health Care Association has set aside the week of Mother’s Day as a special time of observance and recognition for nursing staff in long-term care centers across the nation. At each of The Baptist Home campuses around the state, a special theme was selected to honor their workers. At Ozark, Campus Administrator Sonya … [Read more...]
MBF Trustees select college scholarship recipients during video-conference board meeting
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Foundation Board of Trustees met for its regularly scheduled Board meeting on May 15, 2020. Rather than convening in person for its tri-annual meeting, board members from across the state met via video-conferencing. The trustees received economic, performance, and financial reports. Even though the market has been volatile, performance has rebounded since the low at the end of March. In keeping with its current policy, the board maintains its … [Read more...]
MBCH trustees celebrate faith profession, generosity
BRIDGETON – The need to care for Missouri’s at-risk children and families doesn’t change during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ministry and operations of the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home couldn’t stop either. Staff and caseworkers kept ministry rolling along with enhanced (and sometimes inconvenient) safety measures, and trustees met virtually April 28 to take care of the business side of things. It wasn’t a typical board meeting, but aside from a little chaos figuring out who seconded … [Read more...]
SBU trustees set plans to update governing documents, approve $60.8 million budget
BOLIVAR – During a May 19 meeting here, Southwest Baptist University (SBU) trustees set a schedule for finalizing changes to the university’s governing documents. The board submitted a draft of the revised governing documents to the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Executive Board in February. SBU trustees who are part of the governing documents work group and MBC leadership are meeting June 1 to review the revisions requested by the MBC. The full board will meet in a special session on … [Read more...]
Despite COVID-19 setbacks, Windermere Baptist Conference Center open for ministry
ROACH – Like many other non-profits around the nation, the Windermere Baptist Conference Center here is facing financial setbacks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, according to Windermere President Tim Huddleston, the camp is open for ministry. “I’ll be very transparent, the pandemic has really hurt us financially,” Huddleston told The Pathway. So far, although the camp hasn’t been closed, many events in April, May and early June have been cancelled or postponed because of … [Read more...]
Virtual celebrations – Baptist schools hail graduates online, reschedule in-person commencements
ST. LOUIS – Let no one say the class of 2020 didn’t have a memorable graduation. It may not have featured all the usual pomp and circumstance or the wails of bagpipes, but Baptist schools are finding ways to honor their seniors even though chapels and arena remain empty. Missouri Baptist University For example, Missouri Baptist University normally holds its commencement at the Family Arena in St. Charles. The in-person celebration has been pushed back to Nov. 13, but the school hosted a … [Read more...]
‘They thought I was going to die’ – Teenage stroke leads Greminger to study nursing at MBU
ST. LOUIS – It was just another headache. Or so she thought. This head pain would eventually lead her to the neuroscience floor of St. Louis Children’s Hospital. First as a patient, and, beginning this June, as a nurse. For Samantha Greminger, head pain from migraines was a common occurrence. But one morning during her sophomore year of high school, she had a headache that was a little different. “It felt like an ice pick was stabbing my head,” she recalled. She tried to treat her … [Read more...]
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