JEFFERSON CITY – Volunteer leaders for Missouri Disaster Relief gathered for a DR Roundtable at the Baptist Building here, March 13-14. During the roundtable, these leaders were challenged and encouraged by Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Executive Director John Yeats and MBC team leaders Matt Kearns (leadership development) and Rick Hedger (partnership missions), as well as DR specialists from around the nation—including Oklahoma Baptist DR Director Sam Porter and National DR Director … [Read more...]
Northeast associations to hold prayer summit at HLGU
HANNIBAL – Six Northeast Missouri directors of missions have answered a call to pray, and they are extending the invitation to their member churches to gather in prayer. The Northeast Missouri (NEMO) Prayer Summit for Revival and Spiritual awakening is April 18 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Roland Fine Arts Center on the Hannibal-LaGrange University campus here. “We responded to the call from Dr. John Yeats (executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention) and Dr. Jim Wells (MBC … [Read more...]
Missourians do medical missions in Nicaragua
NICARAGUA – Three Northeast Missouri women, including two from Calvary Baptist Church, Hannibal, participated in a Baptist medical and dental mission trip to Nicaragua in February. Charlotte Parrish and Kelly Stevenson of Calvary, and Grace Horst, a Mennonite from Edina, were among the 67 members on the team, not counting interpreters and medical professionals. The Mississippi-based Baptist Medical-Dental Missions (BMBMI) organization sends 40 teams to Nicaragua and 100 to Honduras each … [Read more...]
Churches urged to call solemn assemblies on courthouse steps
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptist pastors and church leaders are being called to conduct a solemn assembly on their county’s courthouse steps on May 7. It is timed with the National Day of Prayer, conducted the first Thursday of May each year. The call has been issued by Mark Snowden who serves Missouri Baptist as strategist for Prayer for Revival and Spiritual Awakening. “Followers of Jesus have a tremendous opportunity to pray anytime, but particularly on this special day for spiritual … [Read more...]
HIS Opportunity
Looking for a summer mission project? It is not too late to jump on board with the HIS project this summer in Fargo, ND, June 19-22. You could join the HIS ride! The Baptist Bikers and their friends are starting at Midwestern Seminary with a BBQ. If you are biking, you need to register at mobaptist.org. As they go north, they are stopping in several I-29 cities to pray, to witness and distribute Bibles. Remember, you don’t have to have a bike to make the ride. I am personally planning … [Read more...]
HLG approves budget, hires new academic VP
HANNIBAL – Trustees for Hannibal-LaGrange University (HLGU) approved a $23.18 million budget for the upcoming year and welcomed a new vice president to campus during their March 19-20 meetings on campus. Trustees unanimously approved the hiring of Miles Mullin as vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty. Mullin comes to HLGU from Southwestern Seminary’s Houston campus, where he served as associate professor of church history. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the … [Read more...]
Northeast associations to hold prayer summit at HLGU
HANNIBAL – Six Northeast Missouri Directors of Missions have answered a call to pray, and they are extending the invitation to their member churches to gather in prayer. The Northeast Missouri (NEMO) Prayer Summit for Revival and Spiritual awakening is April 18 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Roland Fine Arts Center on the Hannibal-LaGrange University campus here. “We responded to the call from Dr. John Yeats (executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention) and Dr. Jim Wells … [Read more...]
Your church can be an Easter illustration
WEBSTER GROVES (BP) – For years in Southern Baptist life the message among pastors about plateaued and dying churches was simple -- stay away. As a church planter, I believed, and experience had shown me, that it was easier to start a new church rather than resurrect a dying church with damaged DNA. But there was a problem with that belief. Jesus is in the resurrection business. The church must be as well. When a community sees a once-dead church become a thriving, Gospel-proclaiming, … [Read more...]
No small thing when a pastor dies
One of the most difficult changes to deal with in life is when death comes to someone near us. The death of a family member is the most profound. Certainly the death of a friend impacts our lives, particularly when that friend is our pastor. Pastors touch our lives in so many ways. We share many of life’s most important events with them. They were there when we were sick, praying for healing. They were there when we got married, leading us in our sacred vows before God. They were there … [Read more...]
Field retiring after 18 years
JEFFERSON CITY – He has been a fixture at 400 E. High St. and worked in a variety of roles for nearly two decades, but Jerry Field will retire from the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Executive Board staff April 15. Most recently serving as the team leader for support services, Field came to the MBC in 1996 as personal evangelism unit leader. Since then, he as also served as director of evangelism, state director of church planting and associate executive director. “Jerry has served … [Read more...]
Immensely Blessed
This week I came across a striking observation. As citizens of the United States, we are recipients of the amazing blessing of the Lord. Prior generational leaders, while not always copacetic with church leaders, were for the most part people of faith who understood the value of righteous behavior and the need to order one’s life according to biblical principles. Historically, our nation’s birth and prosperity demonstrated to the world the importance of freedom of conscience and personal … [Read more...]
Mountain Grove rebuilds, reaches out
MOUNTAIN GROVE – Sometimes the road to church revitalization is less a road and more of a potato field. A year ago, Mountain Grove Family Church, a once-thriving congregation here in south central Missouri, was stuck mid-stride in a stalled building program, with just six or seven members paying the church’s expenses out of pocket to keep the doors open. The church sought help from the Missouri Baptist Convention, which paired them Westside Baptist Church 90 minutes north in Waynesville as … [Read more...]
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