SPRINGFIELD – The latest front in the fight to force Christians to accept homosexuality without question or conscience is the Springfield city council. There the city council voted 6 to 3, Oct. 13, to approve an “equal rights” ordinance that extends nondiscrimination protection in housing, employment and public accommodations to include sexual orientation and gender identity. It goes into effect immediately. Council members Doug Burlison, Mike Carroll, Craig Hosmer, Jan Fisk, Cindy … [Read more...]
KC church serves up ‘Summer of Crazy Love’
KANSAS CITY – Members of LifeQuest Church here served up some “crazy love” in the Belton and Pleasant Hill communities this summer, leading 22 to faith in Christ and baptizing 16 by mid-August. During “The Summer of Crazy Love,” LifeQuest church members loved the people in their communities by serving them. “The only way that we will ever begin to create a revolution that will change this world is love in action,” Lead Pastor Chris Pinion told his congregation in a sermon that introduced … [Read more...]
Puebla Baptists faithful amid persecution
PUEBLA, Mexico – Mexican pastor Javier Gonzalez knows firsthand the reality of Christ’s words from Mark 6:4, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town.” After training at a Bible institute in Mexico City, Gonzalez felt the Lord calling him to proclaim the gospel in his own hometown in the Sierra Negra (Black Mountains) region of Puebla. However, after he and his wife started sharing the gospel from house to house, they were resisted by Catholic priests in the area. This … [Read more...]
MBTS Preview Day
You can read about Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, but there is something special about experiencing it in person, and the 2014 Preview Day is the perfect opportunity to do just that. To register, visit mbts.edu/preview. … [Read more...]
Lifepoint church establishes partnership in Puebla
PUEBLA, Mexico – Lifepoint Church of O’Fallon entered an official partnership with churches here when a mission team of eight from the church traveled to the region, Aug. 22 – 27, with financial backing from the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) Vivian McCaughan Missional Living Endowment Fund. Established in 2010 to support MBC partnership missions efforts, as well as other ministries, the McCaughan Fund now has helped to inscribe partnership missions into Lifepoint’s DNA. During their … [Read more...]
Concord Association trains for cross-cultural outreach
JEFFERSON CITY – A group of leaders from churches in the Concord Association met here last month to plan for cross-cultural outreach in the region. They used data about international populations here that was gathered by Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) interns this summer. With this information, they prioritized the top five people groups who have come to the area from the following countries: India, China, Philippines, Sierra Leone, and Jamaica. They reported that there are 30 languages … [Read more...]
Kids Alive Int’l president challenges SBU students to serve
BOLIVAR — Al Lackey, president of Kids Alive International, visited the Southwest Baptist University campus on Sept. 22. Kids Alive is a global ministry that serves at 67 sites in 18 countries with a focus of rescuing orphaned, abandoned and at-risk children. Lackey has served as the organization’s president since 1996. Lackey spoke to SBU students in the 10 a.m. chapel service about the ministry of Kids Alive and why they do what they do. With an estimated 143 million children worldwide … [Read more...]
HLGU named to America’s Best Christian Colleges
HANNIBAL – Hannibal-LaGrange University (HLGU) was named one of America’s Best Christian Colleges for the twelfth consecutive year by the Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc. HLGU is one of only four higher education institutions in Missouri named as one of America’s Best Christian Colleges. Over 1,000 colleges and universities nationwide were analyzed in consideration for these honors. HLGU was named America’s Best Christian College on the basis of documented environment of … [Read more...]
Prayers for Abedini, persecuted church
JEFFERSON CITY – A small crowd of about 50 on the Missouri Capitol front lawn joined Christians across the U.S. and 32 foreign countries Sept. 26 in praying for and remembering American citizen and pastor Saeed Abedini and the persecuted church. It was the two-year anniversary of Abedini’s imprisonment in Iran on charges of threatening national security by planting house churches there years earlier. While in prison, he has received inadequate medical care and faced beatings and death … [Read more...]
MBC’s Qi: ‘It’s a miracle that I’m a Christian’
ZHENGZHOU, China – A boy once lived in this city of nearly nine million people, sprawled out along the southern banks of China’s Yellow River, and dreamed of finding a medicine that would make his grandmother live forever. This boy, Roger Qi (pronounced CHEE’), loved his grandmother and often lived with her while his parents traveled for business. He promised her that one day he would discover this elixir of life and bring it to her. But he never dreamed that he would find it in … [Read more...]
Cooperation: God’s fellow workers, God’s field, God’s building
When studying the whole of Scripture, there are some verses a believer must not miss. Special care needs to be given to those passages that have to do with our personal identity in Christ. Take a fresh look at 1 Cor. 3:9 – “for we are all God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.” One of the most powerful truths in this passage is the use of a possessive descriptor, “God’s.” What an amazing thought to be called something that belongs to the Lord Himself! Every follower of … [Read more...]
2,000 hear gospel from Horse Whisperer
DIAMOND – To put it kindly, the horse had a bit of an ugly personality. But Horse Whisperer James Frazier knew that the horse’s heart, head and feet would connect as directorship and respect are established. Through gentle pressure and direction and a deliberate plan, he earned the trust of the young colt, saddling and riding it for the first time. “The horse whisperer spoke to the crowd about the parallels between the horse’s relationship with its trainer and our relationship with … [Read more...]
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