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...]
Faith sustains SBU’s Bryant through cancer
BOLIVAR – Life takes on new meaning after surviving stage 4 cancer, according to Southwest Baptist University’s Robbie Bryant. Like never before, each day becomes an opportunity to thank God for His goodness and to walk by faith. “You put your faith in God,” he told The Pathway, “and you know that He is directing each one of your steps.” As a cancer survivor, Robbie and his wife, Julie, shared the story of Robbie’s victory over cancer through a video that was shown during Citizens … [Read more...]
Slain pastor’s daughter sees God amid pain
HANNIBAL – A few years ago, while serving as a summer missionary in Chicago, Cassidy Winters saw for the first time how God was “putting together the broken pieces” of her life for His glory. That summer, Cassidy worked as a camp counselor, and the experience was far from the Bible-belt variety Vacation Bible School she at first expected. Her students – 7-year-old boys transplanted from inner city Chicago to a campground in wide-open spaces – yelled, played and created havoc as she … [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...]
Homebound 89-year-old still invests in ministry
KIMBERLING CITY – Wanda Howard, age 89, has found a way she can serve the Lord in spite of being homebound. It all started when her life support class was asked if they would like to decorate sacks to contain food for the homeless in Branson. The class met and glued pictures of animals, birds, etc., along with Scripture verses on the sacks. The class lost interest, but Wanda decided that was something she could do by herself. Wanda is a member of FBC in Kimberling City and has neighbors … [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...]
Attorney General, Os Guinness coming to KC Pastors & Pews event
KANSAS CITY – More than 800 pastors and their wives from every denomination and every corner of Missouri are expected to attend the American Renewal Project’s “Pastors & Pews” event set for Dec. 7-8 at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown. Hotel accommodations and meals are complimentary for those attending. Guest speakers at this year’s event are Missouri Attorney General Joshua Hawley and Christian author and prominent social critic Os Guinness. In addition several powerful preachers … [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...]
One year after Christmastime fire, Hannibal church begins to rebuild
HANNIBAL – Five days before Christmas 2016, the Antioch Baptist Church near Hannibal went up in flames. A long 10 months later hope of the future began anew. After the October 29, 2017 service, held at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Hannibal, many of the 70-member Antioch congregation gathered near where the old church, built in 1870, was lost to break ground for a new structure. Rev. Jack Emmite, the Antioch pastor said after the groundbreaking the congregation had a “tailgating … [Read more...]
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