RICHLAND – Chris and Tammi Ferkel didn’t have any plans to adopt their new daughter, Summer. And yet, as is the case with most earthly plans, God’s plans took over. In fact, God had been laying the groundwork for Summer’s new family for multiple generations. Chris is the son of a man who was orphaned in the early 1940s. Never fostered or adopted, he grew up as a newsboy in an orphanage in St. Louis. Chris’s maternal grandmother, also an orphan, came to Missouri on a Catholic orphan train … [Read more...]
FBC Arnold ministry aims for ‘one less orphan’
ARNOLD – Adopting and fostering children is a journey. FBC Arnold has a ministry, “One Less Orphan,” to make that journey easier to navigate by providing support for parents and children. “We started this ministry to encourage couples interested in adopting or going through the process,” Lisa Jackson, leader and member of FBC Arnold, said. “Tim and I have three biological children,” Lisa added, “and we adopted a boy from China.” Tim and Lisa Jackson were surprised by some of the … [Read more...]
Children’s Home offers ways to serve kids
BRIDGETON – Foster Care through Missouri Baptist Children’s Home (MBCH) provides a temporary home for children who are unable to live in their biological parent’s home. Foster parents provide a safe home and place for children to heal until they are either reunited with their birth family or an adoptive home is found. Family Foster Care Parents provide care for children with mild-to-moderate behavioral/emotional needs. MBCH Children and Family Ministries (MBCH CFM) works as a community … [Read more...]
MBCH adoption comes full circle
RICHMOND— It’s strange for Cara Peoples to consider what her life would have been like if she hadn’t been adopted through the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home (MBCH) back in 1965. She said it would be totally different. “I wouldn’t have grown up in Richmond, Missouri; I would not have met my husband, Claude and had our two girls and grandsons; and I would not be able to give back to the MBCH as a board member,” said Peoples, member of First Baptist Church Richmond. Peoples was adopted … [Read more...]
MBTS breaks ground for student center
KANSAS CITY – Assembling for its spring meeting on April 3-4, members of Midwestern Seminary’s Board of Trustees conducted significant seminary business and celebrated the groundbreaking for the institution’s forthcoming 40,000 square foot student center. Groundbreaking Ceremony The week’s highlight came on Tuesday, when the seminary community welcomed trustees and seminary supporters, as well as leaders from around the Southern Baptist Convention, to ceremonially break ground at the site … [Read more...]
TIME magazine covers prompt Mo. Baptist critiques
JEFFERSON CITY – TIME magazine shocked the American public on April, 8, 1966, by publishing a simple cover with one red-letter question on a black background: “Is God Dead?” When TIME reproduced their 1966 cover design this April—now with the question, “Is Truth Dead?”—Missouri Baptist ministers and theologians reaffirmed their confidence in the eternal truth of the living God. “Truth is not dead,” Owen Strachan, associate professor of Christian theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological … [Read more...]
HLGU adopts $22M budget, looks to future
HANNIBAL – Anthony Allen said he is pleased with the progress Hannibal-LaGrange University has made during his five years as president, but he told trustees at their March 16-17 board meeting he is much more focused on the future of the institution. “I can’t say that I was the magic bullet, but I can say that we have made a great deal of progress and are moving in the right direction,” he said. Allen offered trustees seven strategic points he has identified to help keep HLGU a “viable, … [Read more...]
Celebrate, strengthen the CP
The Cooperative Program ought not be a sacred cow, but it is close to one for me. Begun by Southern Baptists nearly a century ago, it has proven to be a most effective and enduring way to support our collective ministry and mission work. I often visit with leaders of other evangelical denominations who are envious of the Cooperative Program. And they should be; there is nothing like it in American Protestantism. I was reared in a Southern Baptist church, so I grew up with a general … [Read more...]
Haykin: U.S. Christianity ‘flooded with dementia’
FENTON – Southern Baptist and evangelical churches across the United States have been “flooded with dementia,” Michael Haykin, professor of church history and biblical spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said during the Midwest regional Southern Baptist Founders Conference at First Baptist Church here, Feb. 28-March 1. Conference-goers gathered under the theme, “The Wittenberg Door,” commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. “Our culture is … [Read more...]
New Bible hits bookstores
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptists can now purchase print editions of LifeWay Christian Resources’ new Christian Standard Bible (CSB) translation, which has been praised for its excellence in balancing faithfulness to the original languages with readability in the English translation. Last week, LifeWay released this new translation, which is a revision of the earlier Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB). The full text of the CSB is available at www.CSBible.com, with print versions now … [Read more...]
B&H launches ‘Lost Sermons’ of Spurgeon series
KANSAS CITY (BP) – B&H Academic has launched the first of a 12-volume series of previously unpublished sermons by the famed British preacher Charles H. Spurgeon. "The Lost Sermons of C.H. Spurgeon" series is being researched and edited by Christian T. George, assistant professor of historical theology and curator of the Spurgeon Library at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, which hosted a luncheon for the launch at its Kansas City, Mo., campus. The first volume includes a series … [Read more...]
Book by HLGU’s Turner examines modern idols
HANNIBAL - There is little doubt that Western Culture is quick to follow after idols. Why are we so easily led astray? Eric Turner, assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at Hannibal-LaGrange University, suggests it is because postmodern thinking has masked idols so that we do not recognize them. Turner’s first book, “Hollow Gods: Idolatry in a Postmodern Context,” offers a glimpse into the connections between postmodern culture and its rapid decline into idolatry, providing the … [Read more...]
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