JEFFERSON CITY – More than 50 people gathered in the Capitol’s rotunda March 28 to pray specifically for Missouri’s lawmakers as they enter into the final month of the legislative session. John Yeats, executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention, was the featured speaker at the event dubbed “Show Me Your Glory,” a call to pray for those in government. “We live in difficult times — times darkened by moral relativism, intellectual negligence, spiritual apathy, and erotic … [Read more...]
Celebrate CP Day, April 9
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 more than 8,000 full-time missionaries in the field … and much more. April 9 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 … [Read more...]
Church revitalizers focus strategy in KC
KANSAS CITY - More than 40 revitalization leaders from 13 state Baptist conventions met March 20-21 at Midwestern Seminary to focus on best practices and strategies to collaborate with churches seeking new life or replanting. Gary Mathes, who works in area of church revitalization for the MBC, said that everyone there was all too familiar with the statistics that say 80-85 percent of churches are either plateued or declining. “We all have a great desire to change that trajectory,” he … [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...]
Pray across Missouri
KENNETT – If you see a silver minivan cruising Missouri’s highways eblazoned with a “Pray Across Missouri” logo on the side, you might as well follow it to the county courthouse. The van is making stops at 45-minute prayer meetings set at the courthouse of every one of Missouri’s 114 county seats in 2017-18. The Pray Across Missouri initiatave is a cooperative effort of Missouri Baptists to engage in prayer for the transformation of lives and communities with the gospel, according to MBC … [Read more...]
‘Not alone:’ MBC cooperation brings Renovation to St. Joseph
ST. JOSEPH – Renovation Church, a Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) church plant here, is renovating itself again—and Pastor Kyle Kormeier couldn’t be more excited. After two-and-a-half years of growth and with roughly 250 people attending each Sunday morning, the church has outgrown its current facilities. So they’ll soon be moving to two services. According to Kormeier, the revamp in their Sunday morning schedule will only help the church bring spiritual renovation to the people of St. … [Read more...]
Disaster Relief showcases CP, MMO at work
JEFFERSON CITY – The word “missionary” typically conjures up images of a church planter, tattered Bible in hand, plodding through the jungle to bring the Gospel to some unreached people group. But there are 1,743 vetted and trained volunteer missionaries in yellow shirts working in Missouri who are equally at home toting a chainsaw or prepping tens of thousands of hot meals. Few ministries show Missouri Baptists’ cooperation at work like Disaster Relief. The Cooperative Program (CP) funds … [Read more...]
Legislature considers bill protecting student groups
JEFFERSON CITY – A bill sits in committee that would protect leadership requirements of student groups on Missouri’s public college campuses. Introduced by Rep. Hannah Kelly (R-Mountain Grove), House Bill 642 says in part that “no public institution of higher learning shall take any action or enforce any policy that denies a religious student association any benefit available to any other student association or that discriminates against a religious student association with respect to such … [Read more...]
‘Show me Your Glory;’ MBC’s Yeats to keynote prayer event at Capitol
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director John Yeats is set to be the keynote speaker at “Show Me Your Glory Lord,” a prayer event at the Missouri State Capitol, March 28. This public intercessory prayer service begins with prayer walking the State Capitol and its grounds at 10 a.m. There will be praise and worship on the west lawn of the State Capitol at 11 a.m., followed by a rally with lawmakers and a guest speaker in The Rotunda inside the State Capitol at noon. … [Read more...]
‘By All Means,’ register for missions celebration
JEFFERSON CITY – Early Bird registration is now being accepted for the Missouri Woman’s Missionary Union (MWMU) Missions Celebration annual meeting, themed this year, “By All Means.” The exciting two-day experience will be held April 7-8, 2017, at First Baptist Church (FBC) in Lebanon, and will include special workshops, praise and worship music and engaging speakers, all designed to renew your spirit and ignite your passion for missions. The cost for registration before March 24 is … [Read more...]
Great Commission Conference takeaways
A friend taught me years ago the great value of reviewing events. An evaluation has a way of helping you determine future choices. You may determine whether to share with others about the event and future similar events, or you may determine there were simply too many pitfalls for recommendation. Evaluation also helps you find where improvements can be made. Because we are all human, there is always room for improvement with everything. The only human thing I have ever found that doesn’t … [Read more...]
Stier: Believers must ‘dare to share’
SPRINGFIELD – There is no room for timidity when it comes to sharing the good news of Jesus. That was the message of Greg Stier, the founder of Dare 2 Share evangelism resources, during the Great Commission Conference at Ridgecrest Baptist Church here Feb. 25. Stier and his entire extended family are Christians today because someone shared the gospel with one of his uncles, quite literally on a dare. “I don’t come from a typical, religious, hymn-singing, pew-sitting family,” he said. “I … [Read more...]
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