TOBIN PERRY/North American Mission Board Sioux Falls, S.D. (BP) — Thanks to an historic shift in the funding relationship between the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and state conventions throughout the South Region, $1 million will be available over the next four years to help start churches in key cities and towns along the I-29 corridor – also known as HIS, Hearland Interstate Stratey – that runs from Kansas City to Canada. “I am grateful to our friends in the South state … [Read more...]
MMO Giving more than half way to goal
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptists are giving generously to state missions this year and already have passed the halfway mark toward the 2013 goal of $700,000. As of Oct. 17, funds received for the Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering (MMO) totaled $491,745, or 70 percent of the goal. Giving so far in 2013 is outpacing last year. As of a year ago, MMO receipts totaled $456,708. “Overflow” is the theme of this year’s MMO, taken from 2 Cor. 9:12, “For the ministry of this … [Read more...]
Free ‘Holy Way’ booklet helps Missouri Baptists prepare for KC
JEFFERSON CITY – MBC Executive Director John Yeats is inviting Missouri Baptists to join him in eight days of preparation for this year’s Annual Meeting, to be held Oct. 28-30 in Kansas City. To help in preparation, Yeats has released a booklet, “The Holy Way: Renewing our Covenant Commitments to Jesus Christ.” The booklet is available as a free download in PDF and eBook formats at mobaptist.org/annualmeeting. “The booklet lays out a process to help God’s people prepare to renew their … [Read more...]
Missouri CP giving ahead of last year
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptists are giving more to missions through the Cooperative Program so far in 2013, according to just-released figures from the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC). For the first nine months of the year, CP giving from MBC churches totaled $10.7 million, compared with $10.59 million for the same period last year, an increase of 1 percent. CP giving during the same period is running 2.7 percent behind budget, however. “Missouri Baptists are staying faithful … [Read more...]
Baptist Builders: Ministry poised to grow, evolve
JEFFERSON CITY – Baptist Builders may be one of the best kept secrets in Missouri, but one of its most active members wants to help it grow into a well-known and often-used ministry. Leighton Clemons, a member of Country Meadows in Independence said he thinks Baptist Builders can take an already established ministry and build – pun intended – something even better. Baptist Builders offers a simple way to help construct a new building while being good stewards: a church provides the … [Read more...]
Where MMO gifts go
Your gifts to the Missouri Missions Offering support ministries in four areas: SHARING Christ’s love throughout Missouri – includes disaster relief projects; Missouri Baptist Children’s Home; hunger funds; “safe home” ministry; youth evangelism and missions; multi-housing ministry; international student missions conference; Baptist Builders; Hispanic and deaf youth camps; Christian Women’s Job Corps; and State Fair evangelism. SENDING Missouri missionaries – includes partnership … [Read more...]
Audio interview with Naghmeh Abedini, wife of imprisoned Saeed Abedini
Click here to listen to Harold Hendrick interview Naghmeh Abedini. Naghmeh (pronounced “Nog’ may”) Abedini is being used of God to call attention to persecuted Christians worldwide. She is the wife of an American citizen, and the native Iranian, Pastor Saeed Abedini, persecuted and imprisoned in the notorious Evin Prison in his native Iran for functioning as a Christian. At the time he was developing plans for building an orphanage there on family owned property. And, she will be sharing … [Read more...]
November 2 is Disaster Relief Sunday
JEFFERSON CITY – Nov. 2 has been designated a “Thank You Sunday” for Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (DR) volunteers. “This is a day set aside by the North American Mission Board to show support to the thousands of Disaster Relief volunteers across Missouri that pray, give and go anywhere, anytime, anyhow to spread the love of Jesus in the harshest of times,” said Dwain Carter, director of DR for the Missouri Baptist Convention. “These volunteers don’t do what they do for any glory or … [Read more...]
City on a hill: Missouri Baptists to reach Atlixco, Mexico
JEFFERSON CITY – More than 2,000 years ago Scripture records a moment in time when Jesus stood on a hill overlooking Jerusalem and wept. His heart cry was recorded as, “I wish that you would come to me, but you will not”. In September, Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Partnership Mission Strategist Rick Hedger stood on a hill above Atlixco, Mexico. With tears in his eyes, he told volunteers from Missouri, “This city is open to the gospel. They will respond, but they have never … [Read more...]
‘The throne reclaimed the mission given’
Phil Bray, President Pastors' Conference The mission of the church, the purpose of our existence, is founded upon the universal sovereignty given to Jesus Christ. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matt. 28:19-20). We know this Scripture well. We know that Christ has commanded the church … [Read more...]
Hearing His word and following the Master
Mary Leigh Snowden While in St. Louis one day a missionary asked me why I did all the driving around Missouri? I told him I drove so that my husband who is the state evangelism/discipleship strategist could do his emails, answer and make phone calls, and catch up on his writing. “Makes sense,” he said. I like to think of my driving as a small contribution in helping Mark to be the most effective he can be in serving Missouri Baptists. They have entrusted him with a great task, and he … [Read more...]
The Apologist’s Tool Kit now available
Thank you, Missouri Baptists, for enthusiastically supporting the MBC’s new apologetics ministry. Over the last year, I have been privileged to speak or lead workshops in many churches across the state to help Christians “earnestly contend for the faith” (Jude 3). Topics have ranged from “How do I know the Bible is true?” to “What do false prophets have in common?” As many of you know, apologetics simply is “a reasonable defense of the Christian faith.” For followers of Jesus there has … [Read more...]
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