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...]
MBCH adoption comes full circle
RICHMOND— It’s strange for Cara Peoples to consider what her life would have been like if she hadn’t been adopted through the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home (MBCH) back in 1965. She said it would be totally different. “I wouldn’t have grown up in Richmond, Missouri; I would not have met my husband, Claude and had our two girls and grandsons; and I would not be able to give back to the MBCH as a board member,” said Peoples, member of First Baptist Church Richmond. Peoples was adopted … [Read more...]
MBTS breaks ground for student center
KANSAS CITY – Assembling for its spring meeting on April 3-4, members of Midwestern Seminary’s Board of Trustees conducted significant seminary business and celebrated the groundbreaking for the institution’s forthcoming 40,000 square foot student center. Groundbreaking Ceremony The week’s highlight came on Tuesday, when the seminary community welcomed trustees and seminary supporters, as well as leaders from around the Southern Baptist Convention, to ceremonially break ground at the site … [Read more...]
TIME magazine covers prompt Mo. Baptist critiques
JEFFERSON CITY – TIME magazine shocked the American public on April, 8, 1966, by publishing a simple cover with one red-letter question on a black background: “Is God Dead?” When TIME reproduced their 1966 cover design this April—now with the question, “Is Truth Dead?”—Missouri Baptist ministers and theologians reaffirmed their confidence in the eternal truth of the living God. “Truth is not dead,” Owen Strachan, associate professor of Christian theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological … [Read more...]
MBTS prof: CSB makes ‘good translation better’
KANSAS CITY – The new Christian Standard Bible (CSB) has made a good translation better, according to Bible scholar Stephen Andrews. “It was taking a very good translation and evaluating it in places where we could make it better, based upon faithfulness to the original languages and readability,” said Andrews, professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Andrews served on the team that produced the CSB, which is a revision of the earlier Holman … [Read more...]
Omaha Baptist brings relief to wildfire victims
ASHLAND, Kan. (WNS) – As 58-year-old Greg Gardiner surveyed the devastation from this month’s deadly fires, he described an eerie scene across the Gardiner Angus Ranch north of Ashland, Kan. Friends pitched in to help shoot the last of the fatally maimed cattle over the weekend, drones surveyed the breaks to confirm none were missed, and community volunteers began pulling up charred fence post and rolling up burnt wire. The fire on this ranch claimed more than 500 head of cattle and burned … [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...]
The world’s a stage for missions
OZARK – Ever since he did Elvis impersonations as a teenager, Lance Ogden has loved to bring enjoyment into people’s lives through singing and acting. But, in 2008, he learned about an opportunity for using this passion to share Christ’s truth and love with people. During the past decade, in fact, Ogden has gained a greater appreciation for the fact that Christians are called to proclaim Christ’s love in every situation, wherever possible. “We’re on mission everyday, everyone of us,” … [Read more...]
Mo. attorney general targets human trafficking
ST. LOUIS – Missouri’s attorney general is taking a novel approach to combating the growing threat of human trafficking. In April 3 comments made at an undisclosed human trafficking rescue site in the St. Louis area, Joshua Hawley likened human trafficking to modern day slavery, noting that each year, thousands of young women and girls are forced into commercial sexual exploitation – forced to provide sex for money. “We need a new abolitionist movement to confront this oppression … [Read more...]
HLGU adopts $22M budget, looks to future
HANNIBAL – Anthony Allen said he is pleased with the progress Hannibal-LaGrange University has made during his five years as president, but he told trustees at their March 16-17 board meeting he is much more focused on the future of the institution. “I can’t say that I was the magic bullet, but I can say that we have made a great deal of progress and are moving in the right direction,” he said. Allen offered trustees seven strategic points he has identified to help keep HLGU a “viable, … [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...]
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