This happens more often than you think: Members of a Sunday School class decide to circumvent their offering that would normally go through the local church’s systematic giving budget to give to a worthy cause or need. Maybe there has been an appeal for support of some particular project or independent missionary or humanitarian need—all good things. Church leaders would say, “Ouch! It’s okay to pass the plate a second time around to meet a specific need but the tithe (systematic giving) … [Read more...]
MBC Executive Board OK’s $14.8M budget
OSAGE BEACH – Meeting at the Lake of the Ozarks, the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) executive board approved a $14.8 million budget goal for 2017 and tended to the business of the Lord’s work April 11 and 12. “The Cooperative Program is doing quite well,” MBC Executive Director John Yeats told the board. “Lottie Moon [offering for international missions] did well last year and is looking to advance this year. Annie Armstrong [offering for North American missions] looks to be be strong … [Read more...]
Resume service gets an upgrade
JEFFERSON CITY – Pastors and churches wanting to network online to seek and fill vacant ministry positions are getting help from improved resume services available to all Missouri Baptists. Effectively immediately, the existing MBC Resume Service gives way to a simpler, faster, and more effective service provided by the Southern Baptist Convention. The new website is available at sbc.net/jobs, or it may be accessed through the Missouri Baptist Convention website mobaptist.org/resume. A … [Read more...]
Multiplying Churches: An interview with Dr. Rick Hedger
JEFFERSON CITY – As catalyst (strategic leader) for Multiplying Churches for the Missouri Baptist Convention, Dr. Rick Hedger has served under the direction of Executive Director Dr. John Yeats to lead a multi-year effort to reorient the MBC staff around a restated vision and mission. The vision of the MBC missionary staff is: “Transforming lives and communities with the gospel.” The mission for all MBC missionaries is: “Cooperating with Missouri Baptists to make disciples, multiply … [Read more...]
Major religious freedom rally, April 19
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director John Yeats and leaders of most of Missouri’s largest denominations will be featured speakers at the Missouri Religious Freedom Rally set for 2 p.m., April 19 at the State Capitol. Several other notable speakers will be featured along with musical guests. The event is being held as a prelude to a critical vote by the House of Representatives on the Missouri Religious Freedom Amendment (SJR 39). “We are asking people to come in … [Read more...]
MBC churches anticipate CP Sunday, April 10
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, promote evangelism, keep roughly 9,000 full-time missionaries in the field … and much more. April 10 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 since 1925 … [Read more...]
Making Disciples: An interview with Matt Kearns
JEFFERSON CITY – As catalyst (strategic leader) for Making Disciples for the Missouri Baptist Convention, Dr. Matt Kearns has served under the direction of Executive Director Dr. John Yeats to lead a multi-year effort to reorient the MBC staff around a restated vision and mission. The vision of the MBC missionary staff is: “Transforming lives and communities with the gospel.” The mission for all MBC missionaries is: “Cooperating with Missouri Baptists to make disciples, multiply … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists partner in Italy
VENETO, Italy – From the moment he arrived in Belluno, Italy, Jeremy Sells soaked in everything he saw and heard. And this province with a population of nearly 200,000 people had plenty to take in, since it is located in the Alps of northern Italy and in a country that has Christian monuments dating back hundreds—if not more than 1,000—years. But nothing prepared Sells, pastor of First Baptist Church, Scott City, for a meeting he and his mission team had with a local evangelical pastor. … [Read more...]
HLGU to host April 14 Worldview Conference
HANNIBAL – Hannibal-LaGrange University’s campus has been chosen to be the site of the 2016 Worldview Conference that will be held here on Thursday, April 14, 2016. The conference will be held in the Parker Theatre of the Roland Fine Arts Center. Distinguished speakers will engage attendees through lectures, question and answer sessions, and panel discussions from 8 am to 5 pm, with a break for lunch. Sponsors of this conference include Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC), The Pathway, and … [Read more...]
Reorientation: An interview with Dr. John Yeats
JEFFERSON CITY – As executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention, Dr. John Yeats has taken the lead in a multi-year effort to reorient the MBC staff around a restated vision and mission. The vision of the MBC missionary staff is: “Transforming lives and communities with the gospel.” The mission for all MBC missionaries is: “Cooperating with Missouri Baptists to make disciples, multiply churches, and develop leaders.” In this Q&A, Yeats addresses the urgency of vision and … [Read more...]
Worldview Conference set for HLGU, April 14
HANNIBAL – The U.S. Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage last year is only the latest symptom of the crisis of the American family—a crisis that experts from across the nation will address during the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Worldview Conference, April 14, 2016. Alongside the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to redefine marriage to include the union of same-sex couples, Missouri Baptists must address other family crises as they carry the gospel to their communities. Divorce rates are … [Read more...]
Religious freedom battle about to heat up
Last summer Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Executive Director John Yeats asked me to organize a statewide effort to strengthen Missouri’s religious freedom laws following the U.S. Supreme Court decision that redefined marriage. For four months I had the privilege of leading discussions about the matter with lawmakers, State Capitol staffers and First Amendment scholars and attorneys. I am pleased to say that through hard work and much prayer a bill has been crafted and is being sponsored … [Read more...]
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