JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Woman’s Missionary Union (MWMU) showcased the diverse resources it has to offer churches at the 2017 Missouri Baptist Convention recently held in Raytown. Included among the mission materials at the MWMU exhibit booth, were ideas on how to implement a successful Lottie Moon Christmas Offering (LMCO) campaign. MWMU’s Executive Director Laura Wells, Preschool/Children/Student Missions Consultant Teri Broeker and President Cherri Crump, and other MWMU … [Read more...]
Over the top for the top of the world, elsewhere
The promotional materials for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for international missions are out in circulation. This time of year, our Missouri churches often use the materials for promoting a week of prayer for our 3,800 international SBC missionaries, or some churches host a missions event that promotes all levels of missions – international, domestic, state and associational missions. One of the stories in the packet especially caught my interest because of Missouri Baptists’ … [Read more...]
Ozark’s School to the Nations equips Missouri Baptists for global outreach
OZARK – Untrained eyes might see a small farm here, but many around the world know this 30-acre plot as a launching pad for the gospel. The School to the Nations, founded by Randy and Maureen Copeland in 2000, is a missionary training facility fully equipped with an African training village, a jungle training village, and a professional ropes course, all designed to help churches prepare teams for the mission field. According to Randy, the ministry exists to equip local churches to take the … [Read more...]
Pastorless churches find bright futures through CP: Transitional pastors available through MBC
JEFFERSON CITY – Losing a senior pastor for any reason can send a church into crisis mode. But the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) “transitional pastor ministry” aims to help pastorless churches prepare them for a bright future of ministry. “One thing that a transitional minister can bring to a church is hope,” said Mark Arnold, a member of the MBC’s network of transitional pastors. “He helps them understand that God still has a future for them, still has a purpose for them.” The … [Read more...]
MBU rushes to name new president, spurning request of incoming board
Missouri Baptist University’s self-perpetuating board of trustees on Nov. 16 named Keith L. Ross the seventh president of the institution. The announcement came about two weeks after James Plymale, chairman of the MBC-elected MBU trustees, sent a letter to the self-elected MBU trustees, asking them to defer such action until an appeal involving MBU and the Missouri Baptist Convention is resolved. Plymale received no reply to his letter. On Sept. 27, Special Judge Karl DeMarce ordered … [Read more...]
Online auction to support SBU student scholarships
BOLIVAR – Southwest Baptist University recently received a valuable collection of artwork from a generous couple wanting to use it to help raise scholarship funds for SBU students. In honor of this gift, SBU has set up an online auction, which will end at 10 p.m., Dec. 3. The collection includes: Anri of Italy woodcarvings, Lowell Davis sculptures, Nao by Lladro and Lladro porcelain figurines, Frances Hook porcelain figurines and original oil paintings and numbered prints by various … [Read more...]
SBU prof publishes poetry book
BOLIVAR – Southwest Baptist University’s Carla Kirchner recently won the Concrete Wolf Press 2016 Chapbook Award for her book of poetry – “The Physics of Love” – published by Concrete Wolf Press. Kirchner’s work is a chapbook of poems that draws from physics principles to explore motherhood and loss. “The Physics of Love” is all about connection, the starstuff that intertwines mother and child, soul and stone, and the living and the dead – ‘all of us spinning against each other in the … [Read more...]
Messengers utilize childcare ministry at annual meeting
RAYTOWN – Little Liam didn’t want to leave. The four-year-old was busy working on a craft and he wasn’t done yet. “He was really concerned that I picked him up before he could finish the craft, so he was excited to get back to it today,” said Caleb Smith, pastor of Aurora Springs Baptist Church near Eldon, and father of Liam, 4, and Cade, 2. “He loves craft time and singing time.” Smith and his wife, Melissa, utilized the free childcare provided at the 2017 Missouri Baptist Convention … [Read more...]
Ministry wives celebrate devotion to God, calling
RAYTOWN – Ministry wives know what it means to be devoted. They are devoted to their husbands, they are devoted to their children and they are devoted to their ministry. “But are you fully devoted to God?” asked Kelli Jordan, leadership development manager for MOPS International, an organization dedicated to sharing the good news of Jesus with moms around the world. “It amazes me how far off track I can get when I’m busy with my other devotions and I’m not paying attention to my number … [Read more...]
Elliff, Ezell featured in brunch
RAYTOWN – Church leaders from throughout the state gathered for a ministers’ brunch, Oct. 25, following the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting here, where they heard again from former International Mission Board President Tom Elliff and current North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell. Before a time of questions and answers, Elliff encouraged ministers to invest themselves in the church where God has placed them. “Effectiveness is being content within the … [Read more...]
Elliff, former IMB prez, speaks to messengers
RAYTOWN — The preacher said he was going to start with an altar call. “At the end of my message we are going to call you to come down and pray,” Dr. Tom Elliff said to the MBC messengers at the concluding session of the MBC annual meeting on Tuesday night. Elliff was president of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention from 2011 to 2014, preceding current president Dr. David Platt. He spoke from his heart, without notes, in front of the pulpit for the … [Read more...]
Langford brings his music home to Missouri
RAYTOWN – A singer at the MBC annual meeting returned to a church he once served when both he and the church had different titles. Ryan Langford, who left First Baptist, Raytown eight years ago as Student Minister, returned to the same church (now Connection Point) but as Minister of Music, Bands, and Singers at First Baptist, Houston Texas, to share music for the annual meeting. Langford, who attended both Hannibal LaGrange College (now university) then transferred to Southwest … [Read more...]
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