JEFFERSON CITY (BHHM) – Baptist Homes & Healthcare Ministries has finalized its purchase of the Tri-County Care Center in Vandalia. Baptist Homes has been providing management services of this home for approximately one year. As of Sept. 1, the campus became the eighth home in the Baptist Homes family of ministries. Dr. Aaron Witte, administrator of the Tri-County campus discovered an interesting back story of an unknown connection between Baptist Homes and the Tri-County Care … [Read more...]
BSU fine arts Bible study reaches atheist with gospel
MARYVILLE – Payton Beucher didn’t expect to find himself back at Northwest Missouri State University (NWMSU) in the spring of 2023 after a three-year gap that included multiple school transfers. He also didn’t expect to find Jesus. But he did, on both accounts. As Payton was preparing to move back to Maryville to study clarinet at NWMSU, Brooklyn Ellis and Zach Ringo were feeling led to start a Fine Arts Bible study. The two close friends had both been Music Education majors and shared the … [Read more...]
MMO prayer focus set for Sept. 10-17
Offering supports foster care, biblical worldview training, other ministries JEFFERSON CITY – The Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering supports more than two dozen ministries in Missouri. This year’s theme is taken from Romans 10:15: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news.” The MMO Eight Days of Prayer are Sept. 10-17. Following are two short stories about how the gifts of Missouri Baptists support missions projects throughout the Show Me State. Learn more by … [Read more...]
MODR brings help, hope, healing after tornado hits Northeast Missouri town
BARING – A tornado may have moved in an unusual path on the night of Aug. 4 and heavily damaged this town of 125 people, but Missouri Disaster Relief moved in a typical way. Many times, a tornado moves toward the east or northeast. This tornado, with estimated maximum winds of 122 miles per hour moved to the northwest. It heavily damaged several of the senior housing apartments, from which people had to be rescued. The post office was all but leveled, and the roof of the town’s only … [Read more...]
FBC Festus/Crystal City takes Christ to the homeless
FESTUS/CRYSTAL CITY – Missions can conjure up the notion of far-flung locales across the ocean and church planting among an unreached people group. But First Baptist Church, Festus/Crystal City, knows that those right around the corner at home are just as in need of the Gospel. The church engaged in a week of missions called "Hometown Missions,” July 31 through Aug. 3. It was a week of evangelism and service projects to our community that included morning Backyard Bible Clubs in an … [Read more...]
What Southern Baptist leaders are saying about Dr. Wes Fowler
JEFFERSON CITY (MBC) – The Executive Board of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) has named Wes Fowler, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Mayfield, Ky., the next MBC executive director-treasurer (Read more here). Numerous Southern Baptist leaders have praised the MBC’s decision to call Fowler to the Show-Me State. Here is what they are saying: “Having known Wes Fowler for more than a dozen years, and having benefited from his wise and godly leadership during my time as KBC … [Read more...]
MBC Executive Board names Wes Fowler next Executive Director-Treasurer
EDITOR'S NOTE: What are Southern Baptist leaders saying about Dr. Wes Fowler? Read more here. JEFFERSON CITY (MBC) – The Executive Board of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) has named Wes Fowler, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Mayfield, Ky., the next MBC executive director-treasurer. Fowler succeeds John Yeats, who steps aside after 12 years of leading the network of 1,750 self-governing churches through challenging times and to higher levels of cooperative … [Read more...]
FBC Willard VBS offering pays school’s lunch debt
WILLARD – Children and families involved in the Vacation Bible School program at First Baptist Church here raised $3,600 for the Willard school district – allowing the district to start the school year without any lunch debt remaining from the previous year. “There was $2,800 in student debt for lunches, so we put out the challenge to another group of people, and they just kept giving and giving,” said Pastor Mark Milioni, according to KY3 News. Some children in the VBS program went so … [Read more...]
Baptist Homes receives $600,000 Mabee grant
JEFFERSON CITY – Baptist Homes & Healthcare Ministries recently announced that they have been approved for a $600,000 Challenge Grant from the Mabee Foundation. This challenge grant has been issued as a part of the Baptist Homes $18,000,000.00 Welcome Home Capital Campaign. The Challenge Grant is a part of the fund raising for the building of two skilled nursing Cottages on the Ozark Campus which will cost approximately $3,000,000.00. So far, $1,560,000.00 has been raised for the Ozark … [Read more...]
Resolutions for MBC’s 2023 annual meeting due Aug 24
SPRINGFIELD – Resolutions for this year’s MBC Annual Meeting must be submitted in writing to the Committee on Resolutions at least sixty 60 days prior to the first session of the annual meeting, which means the deadline of August 24 is fast approaching. The annual meeting is October 23-24 at Crossway Baptist Church in Springfield. Persons submitting resolutions must certify that they are messengers. The author of any resolution may address the Committee on Resolutions during its … [Read more...]
MBU School of Nursing featured in news broadcast
ST. LOUIS (MBU) – Missouri Baptist University’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) program is one key to overcoming the state’s nursing crisis according to a KSDK I-Team report that aired during the station’s evening news broadcast, July 31. MBU’s School of Nursing was featured in the story by the St. Louis-area news channel. I-Team Investigative Reporter Paula Vasan interviewed MBU ABSN students as well as Dr. Amber Pyatt, dean of MBU’s College of Science & Health, … [Read more...]
Independence church becomes smaller, leaner, more effective
INDEPENDENCE (BP) – Ten years ago Brian Grout accepted a call to be the pastor for what would soon become The Church at Three Trails. Approximately 200 people were on the membership role. That number has dropped by half since then. On the surface it can appear to be a negative, but the surface hardly tells the whole story. When Grout arrived, the church hadn’t baptized anyone in at least five years, but there have been approximately 55 since. Attendance hovered at 15 to start. Now it is … [Read more...]
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