HOUSTON, Texas - Even as the Hurricane Harvey’s waters continue to rise in Texas, Missouri Baptist disaster relief volunteers are prepping to bring help, hope and healing to those affected by the flood. A mass care (feeding) unit is on standby to head south as soon as roads are clear, and they need at least 20 more volunteers for the first week of operations. “As long as you're DR trained, you are eligible to serve,” said interim disaster relief coordinator, Tamara Parry. “You do not … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptist Foundation’s Mathis announces retirement
JEFFERSON CITY – Stephen E. Mathis, executive vice president of Missouri Baptist Foundation (MBF) will retire Sept. 30. Plans were announced to the MBF trustees and staff following the Aug. 18 meeting of the board of trustees. He is currently also serving as Interim President. Mathis joined the MBF in November 1986 as associate executive director which was later expanded to the corporate officer position of executive vice president. In this role as chief development officer for more than … [Read more...]
Why MMO is not just another offering
JEFFERSON CITY – Rheubin L. South was on to something when he spearheaded the launch of the Missouri Missions Offering. As executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention from 1975 - 1986, South witnessed an unintended conflict brewing across the state as various mission causes and agencies multiplied, each seeking funding for its own worthy efforts. Missouri Baptists, generous to the core, wanted to support ministries ranging from the Children’s Home to the Woman’s Missionary … [Read more...]
Gospel proclaimed at Missouri state fair
SEDALIA – “I’m a gambling man. I will bet you five dollars that they will take more than three minutes if I go in that tent,” said the man at the entrance to the state fair Baptist tent. Now that was a throw-down. The man was responding to an appeal to come into the Baptist tent at the state fair and sign up for a giveaway of a merchandise gift card. But all that was being asked of the registrants was “three minutes of your time.” Tent volunteers were trained to share their testimony of … [Read more...]
Mo. missionary movement recalled after 200 years
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of several articles commemorating the Baptist history in Missouri, written by members of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Historical Commission. JEFFERSON CITY – At the meeting of the Triennial Convention of Baptist on May 17, 1817, Rev. John Mason Peck (1789-1858) and Rev. James E. Welch (1789-1876) were appointed as missionaries to the Missouri Territory or “Western Mission”. They arrived in St. Louis, Missouri in late 1817. Part of the ministry of … [Read more...]
Why our church recites the BFM 2000
As a pastor, I’m grateful for the way our church family participates and responds in worship. They are “all in” whether it’s during the musical portion of worship, praying, reciting verses, or the sermon, and I greatly appreciate it. I especially appreciate our time together as each week we recite an article of the Baptist Faith & Message 2000. Granted, I know it’s not the same as Scripture (no Baptist should ever say it is), but it highlights some top-tier things we believe about … [Read more...]
Small Puxico church displays heart for missions
MOLDOVA – As one of the smaller former Soviet states, Moldova is an easy nation to overlook. Not for Lewis Scott of Brush Creek Mission Baptist Church in Puxico. Scott will return for his fifth trip to tiny country wedged between Romania and Ukraine later this month as part of an IGO Missions health clinic trip. Scott partners with a local Baptist congregation in a series strategic cities and towns. Each clinic is preceded by an evangelistic crusade where people sign up for a time … [Read more...]
MBC partnership enables Emmaus KC to train pastors, reach community, send out church planter
KANSAS CITY – Emmaus Church in Kansas City launched on January 4, 2015 with 35 people. Seven of those were pastoral residents, learning how to plant a church by planting with experienced planter, Joshua Hedger. Two and a half years later, Emmaus is averaging 186 in attendance and has 110 covenant members. Through this season of growth, it became more evident that the location they had planted in was not going to be their long-term location. On July 23rd, 2017 Emmaus had their first … [Read more...]
Macedonia Baptist youth camp teaches service
ALTON – A camp of Macedonia Baptist Church in Alton, was designed this summer to help students in fifth through eighth grade focus on others and ways to serve them. The camp theme, “Get Your Serve On,” helped the students focus on loving others and the practical ways to put others first. “Kids at this age need to see the big picture,” Sue Hudson, camp director and member of Macedonia, said. “We wanted to lead them toward the importance of service and the opportunities for acts of service … [Read more...]
MMO supports associations, church revitalization
JEFFERSON CITY – The Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering supports 18 ministries in Missouri. This year’s theme is taken from 1 Cor. 3:9a (KJV): “For we are labourers together with God.” Following are two short stories of how the gifts of Missouri Baptists support missions projects throughout the Show Me State. Associational Partnerships – LifeCare Comes to SE Missouri Outfitted with two medical exam rooms, a lab, a waiting room and other features, this mobile medical unit … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists honored by seminary for leadership in Conservative Resurgence
FORT WORTH, Texas – Five Missouri Baptists will soon be depicted in stained-glass windows at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s MacGorman Chapel because of their leadership in the Southern Baptist Convention’s Conservative Resurgence. The honorees include: Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director John Yeats, who has also served as SBC Recording Secretary for two decades; Gerald Davidson, pastor emeritus, First Baptist Church, Arnold, and a past MBC president; the late … [Read more...]
Collegiate missionaries reach world, generations
JEFFERSON CITY – Missionaries supported by Missouri Baptist churches are making disciples and developing leaders on more than one-third of the state’s college campuses, and they aim to expand their outreach to every campus in Missouri within the next 10 years. “We want to make disciples on those campuses,” said Gene Austin, who oversees the work of collegiate missionaries throughout the state on behalf of the Missouri Baptist Convention. “We want to have a presence on each campus because … [Read more...]
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