As a follower of Christ, you know the Bible is the single most important book ever written. As a believer, you know the power the Bible has to transform not only your life, but also your family and the generations that follow the legacy of your life. This book is foundational to things we cherish like hope, purpose, respect for people who are different than we are, forgiveness, religious liberty, sustainable family order, kindness toward hurting people, a Constitutional form of … [Read more...]
Missouri Missions Offering tops goal
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptists dug deep and gave generously in 2013 to the Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering (MMO). As a result, they surpassed the MMO goal for the second straight year. Receipts for 2013, which are disbursed in 2014, totaled $719,649, exceeding the goal of $700,000 and surpassing last year’s giving by four percent. “Thank you, Missouri Baptists,” said John Yeats, executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention. “Your faithfulness in stewardship … [Read more...]
Engage to feature author of ‘Not Like Me’
KANSAS CITY – The Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) annual Engage Conference, Feb. 21-23, will feature Eric Bryant, a member of the leadership team at Gateway Church in Austin, Texas, and author of Not Like Me – formerly titled, Peppermint-Filled Piñatas. Bryant’s book challenges Christians to engage the diverse people that surround their churches, genuinely relating to them, guiding them to faith and developing them into leaders who share the church’s values and … [Read more...]
Attorney defending Hobby Lobby to speak at Worldview Conference
HANNIBAL – Joshua Hawley, associate professor of law at the University of Missouri, will speak at the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) annual Worldview Conference here, April 3, less than two weeks after he stands before the United States Supreme Court in a landmark case on religious liberty. Hawley serves on the legal team that will defend Hobby Lobby before the Supreme Court, March 25. The Green family – the Southern Baptist owners of Hobby Lobby – filed a lawsuit against the … [Read more...]
ARG meets with Leaders of the Missouri Baptist Foundation and The Baptist Home
Members of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Agency Restoration Group (ARG) met in Springfield Jan. 29, 2014 with leaders of the Missouri Baptist Foundation, The Baptist Home, and mediators Jim Grau and Rob Schenck as part of discussions aimed at ending litigation that began more than a decade ago. The meeting followed an attempt at global mediation by Missouri Baptist Convention leaders and the Missouri Baptist Foundation, The Baptist Home, Missouri Baptist University, and Windermere … [Read more...]
Sowing God’s Word transforms our communities
Missouri Baptists are being challenged to distribute God’s Word this year as they engage the lost in servant evangelism projects. Light Up Missouri is GPS+One Million Bibles. The purpose of this two-year phase is to transform communities with God’s Word through servant evangelism. This is being done in days, seasons and moments of service. Last year about 35 churches, associations and ministries were recruited to engage in distributing nearly 47,000 “Find it Here” New Testaments (NT). … [Read more...]
MBC issues statement about recent legal mediation
MBC Statement: An attempt at global mediation of the lawsuits filed by the Missouri Baptist Convention against four nonprofit corporations – the Missouri Baptist Foundation, The Baptist Home, the Missouri Baptist University, and Windermere Baptist Conference Center—was held Jan. 14-16 in Columbia. Jim Grau, a Dallas, Texas attorney with the Grau Law Group, PLLC, and Rob Schenck, chairman of the Evangelical Church Alliance and a Washington D.C., missionary to top government officials, … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists begin ongoing work on Filipino island
GIBITNGIL, the Philippines – While most of Missouri was wading through snow drifts and scraping ice off windshields, six Disaster Relief (DR) volunteers were wading out to an ocean-going canoe and reusing bent, rusty nails in an ongoing effort to rebuild a Filipino school damaged by November’s typhoon. Teams from Baptist churches across Missouri will be going to the tiny island through the middle of February – the first team returned just before Christmas – helping to rebuild a school … [Read more...]
HIS planning continues up Heartland corridor
Lee Warren/contributing writer OMAHA, Neb. – The Heartland Interstate Strategy (HIS) task force met at the Eastern Nebraska Baptist Association building, Dec. 17, to discuss choosing a director, how the task force will determine success moving forward and when to hold a vision tour. As the task force met along the I-29 corridor throughout 2013, the focus changed from the theoretical (determining the hub cities, and then prospective areas in those cities to actually plant churches) to … [Read more...]
Native Filipino “man of prayer” Ed Moncada re “prayer walking, riding, for spiritual awakening”
Ed Moncada, a member of the Leadership Development Team for the Missouri Baptist Convention, shares about his life and work. Find more great interviews like this one at: http://www.haroldhendrick.com/ … [Read more...]
2014 means more intently focusing on our churches
Thom Rainer, president of LifeWay, gives us some powerful insight into why it is healthy for churches to look outside themselves for solutions to particular challenges. I asked him if I could share this word with you in my column, and he graciously agreed. Here’s what he said: “The pattern is conspicuous. Churches that are insular are not as healthy as churches that are regularly seeking outside perspectives. Of course, there will be exceptions. But, as a rule, those churches whose … [Read more...]
There is plenty you can do with 48 Bibles
Missouri Baptists are catching the vision for distributing one million Bibles in 2014. There are 48 Bibles in a case. The Find it Here New Testaments (NT) cost less than $40 a case. We are all challenged to distribute one million Bibles in print, audio, or Bible storying. Here are some ideas gleaned from reports that have been coming in from around our state. Get started by April 12 and celebrate this Easter. • Christmas carol through your community and give away a dozen cookies in a … [Read more...]
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