NEOSHO – Last April, Amber Pendley and her family walked into their home after a dance recital to find a disaster: Twenty-nine inches of flood water had rumbled through their house while they were gone. The water tore up carpet and flooring, tossed their deep freeze, refrigerator and washing machine on end, ripped doors off the jams, and left lawn timbers and an inch of water throughout the house. “I didn’t realize how much damage water would do,” Pendley told The Pathway. “I was just … [Read more...]
Celebrate Cooperative Program Day, April 8
JEFFERSON CITY – What do your tithes and offerings do? Through the Cooperative Program, they start new churches, feed the hungry, advance Christian education, provide disaster relief, rescue women from human trafficking, keep 9,000 full-time missionaries in the field … and much more. April 8 is Cooperative Program Day for the 50,000 churches and church-type missions of the Southern Baptist Convention. It is a day to celebrate the unique funding process that Southern Baptists have used … [Read more...]
Considering the tax code and charitable giving
You more than likely have heard at least something of the recent Tax Code changes. While there was much in the media about the potential changes, the final bill was not as dramatic as some predicted. However, it does not mean there were not some significant changes that could affect you and may warrant a conversation with your tax professional. Some of these changes include some adjustments to the tax brackets, repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate in 2019, a cap on … [Read more...]
MBC’s partnership with Minn.-Wis. churches kicks off next month
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Four pastors and Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Multiplying Churches Catalyst Rick Hedger will take a road trip to Minnesota next month to explore potential church-to-church partnerships. Those churches from Missouri on this first vision trip are Selmore Baptist, Ozark; Mt. Olive Baptist, Russellville; Southside Baptist, Fulton; and First Baptist, Otterville. Combined, Minnesota and Wisconsin have a population of 11.3 million, almost double Missouri’s 6.1 million. … [Read more...]
MBC’s ‘Pray Across Missouri’ to be completed this month
JEFFERSON CITY – Members of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Executive Board, alongside MBC staff members and other participants, gathered on the lawn of the Cole County Court House here to pray, March 6. Their prayer gathering was the 108th meeting for the MBC’s “Pray Across Missouri” – an initiative that began last year for calling Missouri Baptists to pray at every one of Missouri’s 114 county seats. “The goal is to engage Missouri Baptists in prayer for the transformation of lives … [Read more...]
Board permits staff to participate at Windermere; ‘Windermere Wilderness’ sale considered
JEFFERSON CITY – During their March board meeting here, the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Executive Board permitted the convention to investigate the possible sale of 970 acres of Windermere Wilderness Property owned by the MBC and, in another recommendation, gave MBC staff permission to participate in events hosted by other groups at the Windermere Baptist Conference Center (WCC). In the first recommendation, board members authorized Executive Director John Yeats, alongside the Properties … [Read more...]
CP begins year ahead of budget
JEFFERSON CITY – Celebrating a recent increase of Cooperative Program (CP) giving within the state, Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Executive Board members set the CP goals for 2019 during their board meeting, March 5-6. In other business, they created a task force to study the issue of “single alignment” with the convention and recommended that, during their annual meeting in October, Missouri Baptists take up an offering to support the Springfield-based Freeway Ministries. 2019 … [Read more...]
MBCH, Sports Crusaders partner for missions
JEFFERSON CITY – Through a series of God’s workings, three organizations are partnering for a mission trip in Ukraine in July. The three include the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home, Sports Crusaders, and New Hope Ukraine. “It had to be God’s perfect plan. It’s almost miraculous,” said MBCH President Russell Martin about the joint effort. Martin said Sports Crusaders is marking 25 years bible-based, evangelistic athletic camps for children and youth. Sports Crusaders held a camp at … [Read more...]
Church on the brink of death finds new life
ST. LOUIS – A body on the brink of death is possibly healed with a transplant and Jim Breeden, Director of Missions (DOM) of St. Louis Metro Baptist Association, used this analogy to explain the church replanting of Bayless Baptist Church, 8512 Morganford Rd, St Louis. “A church looking to replant has to acknowledge that they can not go forward,” he said, “without doing something different. They must do things totally different spiritually or in method.” Breeden explained that the St. … [Read more...]
Southern Baptist cowboy church rounds up the unreached in rural Missouri
CARTHAGE – Missouri Baptist church planter Steve Stafford has a rule for his congregation: Never steal members from other churches. “We call that cattle rustling,” Stafford, the founding pastor of Risen Ranch Cowboy Church here said. In Jesus’ parable, a shepherd left his 99 sheep to seek one stray. It’s an image that cowboys, experienced in seeking stray cattle, might appreciate. And Stafford, like other cowboy church planters around the state, is working to round up the unreached people … [Read more...]
GCC breakouts highlight hope, faith in action
ST. CHARLES – In addition to the main speakers at the Great Commission Conference Feb. 22-24, attendees heard from a wide variety of breakout session leaders further breaking down the event’s theme of being ambassadors of hope for transformation. Bill Victor, regional collegiate ministry coordinator for the Missouri Baptist Convention, led a session on the intersection of faith and politics, a topic not often considered a way for Christians to bring about hope and transformation. While … [Read more...]
Mo. Baptist conference highlights hope, reconciliation
HARVESTER – Hundreds of Missouri Baptists from various generations gathered together during the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) Great Commission Conference (GCC), Feb. 22-24, to learn how they could be ambassadors of hope and gospel transformation throughout the state. More than 450 attendees came to the conference, including more than 250 Missouri Baptist campus missionaries and next-generation leaders, according to Matt Kearns, MBC Making Disciples catalyst. “I was pleased,” Kearns … [Read more...]
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