KANSAS CITY -- Jackson County residents rejected Tuesday, by an 84 percent to 16 percent margin, an $800 million “life sciences research” tax which would have opened the door to taxpayer-funded anti-life research which destroys human embryos. With 289 precincts reporting in Jackson County and Kansas City, there were 64, against the tax and 12,066 votes for it. “We are thankful that the voters in Jackson County rejected this awful tax increase that would have been an extra burden on … [Read more...]
WINDERMERE FILES NEW LAWSUIT AGAINST CONVENTION
Jefferson City – Windermere Baptist Conference Center has filed a new lawsuit against the Missouri Baptist Convention and 32 MBC leaders, including its newspaper editor and one of its attorneys. The lawsuit was filed Oct. 25, just before the start of the MBC annual meeting in Kansas City, where messengers were told about a proposed mediation by Windermere’s insurance company, seeking to settle all pending litigation with all parties. “We thought we were working with Windermere and the … [Read more...]
Naghmeh Abedini shares at Annual Meeting
Nagmeh Abedini shares how God has taken the persecution of her husband and turned it into an amazing opportunity to share the gospel in prison and with world leaders. Nagmeh Abedini from MBC on Vimeo. … [Read more...]
Jackson County invaded by cloners
BY STAFF BLUE SPRINGS – If the cloning industry has its way, its research will be funded on the backs of Jackson County taxpayers. On Nov. 5, Jackson County voters will be asked to vote on a sales tax increase. The Jackson County sales tax initiative, titled “Question No. 1” on the ballot, will establish a medical research and development institute. This institute would fund medical research and development at the discretion of the county legislature in whatever locale they so … [Read more...]
NAMB provides $1 million for HIS
TOBIN PERRY/North American Mission Board Sioux Falls, S.D. (BP) — Thanks to an historic shift in the funding relationship between the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and state conventions throughout the South Region, $1 million will be available over the next four years to help start churches in key cities and towns along the I-29 corridor – also known as HIS, Hearland Interstate Stratey – that runs from Kansas City to Canada. “I am grateful to our friends in the South state … [Read more...]
MMO Giving more than half way to goal
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptists are giving generously to state missions this year and already have passed the halfway mark toward the 2013 goal of $700,000. As of Oct. 17, funds received for the Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering (MMO) totaled $491,745, or 70 percent of the goal. Giving so far in 2013 is outpacing last year. As of a year ago, MMO receipts totaled $456,708. “Overflow” is the theme of this year’s MMO, taken from 2 Cor. 9:12, “For the ministry of this … [Read more...]
Free ‘Holy Way’ booklet helps Missouri Baptists prepare for KC
JEFFERSON CITY – MBC Executive Director John Yeats is inviting Missouri Baptists to join him in eight days of preparation for this year’s Annual Meeting, to be held Oct. 28-30 in Kansas City. To help in preparation, Yeats has released a booklet, “The Holy Way: Renewing our Covenant Commitments to Jesus Christ.” The booklet is available as a free download in PDF and eBook formats at mobaptist.org/annualmeeting. “The booklet lays out a process to help God’s people prepare to renew their … [Read more...]
From DR to Baptist Builders, layman does it all for the Lord
INDEPENDENCE – If you need a helping hand, Leighton Clemons is your man. Whether it’s getting down on his hands and knees to help you haul the mud of out of a flooded basement or pulling wire on a newly finished church auditorium the 75-year-old member of Country Meadows Baptist Church in Independence is one of the most active in two of the hardest working organizations in Missouri Baptist life: Baptist Builders and Disaster Relief (DR). For a man in two of the most servant-based … [Read more...]
Missouri CP giving ahead of last year
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptists are giving more to missions through the Cooperative Program so far in 2013, according to just-released figures from the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC). For the first nine months of the year, CP giving from MBC churches totaled $10.7 million, compared with $10.59 million for the same period last year, an increase of 1 percent. CP giving during the same period is running 2.7 percent behind budget, however. “Missouri Baptists are staying faithful … [Read more...]
Baptist Builders: Ministry poised to grow, evolve
JEFFERSON CITY – Baptist Builders may be one of the best kept secrets in Missouri, but one of its most active members wants to help it grow into a well-known and often-used ministry. Leighton Clemons, a member of Country Meadows in Independence said he thinks Baptist Builders can take an already established ministry and build – pun intended – something even better. Baptist Builders offers a simple way to help construct a new building while being good stewards: a church provides the … [Read more...]
Where MMO gifts go
Your gifts to the Missouri Missions Offering support ministries in four areas: SHARING Christ’s love throughout Missouri – includes disaster relief projects; Missouri Baptist Children’s Home; hunger funds; “safe home” ministry; youth evangelism and missions; multi-housing ministry; international student missions conference; Baptist Builders; Hispanic and deaf youth camps; Christian Women’s Job Corps; and State Fair evangelism. SENDING Missouri missionaries – includes partnership … [Read more...]
Audio interview with Naghmeh Abedini, wife of imprisoned Saeed Abedini
Click here to listen to Harold Hendrick interview Naghmeh Abedini. Naghmeh (pronounced “Nog’ may”) Abedini is being used of God to call attention to persecuted Christians worldwide. She is the wife of an American citizen, and the native Iranian, Pastor Saeed Abedini, persecuted and imprisoned in the notorious Evin Prison in his native Iran for functioning as a Christian. At the time he was developing plans for building an orphanage there on family owned property. And, she will be sharing … [Read more...]
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