JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) executive board members meeting here, March 3-4, approved 2026 goals for statewide offerings, recommended an amendment to the MBC Nominating Committee’s rules and procedures, and created a Credentials Committee Guidelines Task Force. 2026 offering goals The board once again set the 2026 Cooperative Program goal at $15 million, and it set an $825,000 goal for the 2026 Missouri Missions Offering (MMO), to be distributed in 2027. The board … [Read more...]
WMU Mission Celebration, R.A. Congress set for April
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri WMU is getting ready for two mission events and registration is open online at mowmu.org. WMU Mission Celebration Mission Celebration will be April 4-5 at First Baptist, Kirksville. Everyone is invited to this two-day conference focused on hearing what God is doing in Missouri, North America and around the world, as well as equipping individuals, groups and churches to make disciples. This year Lindsay Wineinger, President of Illinois WMU, will be our keynote … [Read more...]
Continued Hurricane Helene response requires flexibility
BURNSVILLE, N.C. – A common motto among Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (MODR) volunteers is to always “Be Flexible”. That has certainly been the case with response to Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in Florida over four months ago. MODR volunteers initially responded by providing chainsaw teams, mass feeding teams and shower and laundry units to Augusta, Ga., in a matter of days. To that end, MODR volunteers completed 52 days of service, helped complete 477 chainsaw jobs, helped … [Read more...]
SBU’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program relocating to Springfield
BOLIVAR (SBU) – Southwest Baptist University’s storied Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program will have a new home starting with the Fall 2025 academic semester. SBU plans to move the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program from its current location in Bolivar to be based out of the university’s Springfield campus beginning with the Fall 2025 semester. The move is pending final approvals that are expected to be resolved by February. This move comes after months of evaluating the DPT … [Read more...]
Missouri DR’s Ann Stevenson receives national award
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Anyone who knows Ann Stevenson is used to seeing her with a chaplain’s shirt and badge—accompanied by her trauma-trained dog, Steele—as she visits with victims of disaster. Or maybe they’ve seen her provide key leadership in MODR childcare. However, Stevenson recently took versatility to another level when she coordinated two disaster relief responses in Pulaski County, where she lives, within seven months of each other. That’s just one of the reasons she was … [Read more...]
HLGU announces dates for 2025 Day of Giving
HANNIBAL, Mo. – Hannibal-LaGrange University (HLGU) has announced its fourth annual HLGU Day of Giving, taking place in April 2025. The 24-hour giving campaign will begin at noon on April 3 and conclude at noon on April 4, 2025. This year, HLGU has set a goal of 250 new gifts during the event. A special highlight for 2025 is a generous $40,000 matching gift from the HLGU Board of Visitors, doubling the impact of every donation to the Annual Fund. HLGU is also pleased to announce … [Read more...]
Missouri DR volunteers go extra mile in relief efforts
PERRYVILLE, Mo. – “Helping churches transform lives and communities with the gospel by bringing help, hope, and healing” is the motivating force behind the Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (MODR). Putting feet to the ground, two MODR teams recently did just that in the communities of Waynesville, Duke and Perryville, Mo. Not only did they provide the tools to repair damaged property, but they shared God’s love to repair damaged lives. It was this past November when MODR unit leader Dan … [Read more...]
Twenty-one college students profess faith in Christ
JEFFERSON CITY – In October, The Pathway reported that sixteen Missouri college students had come to faith in Christ through MBCollegiate ministries in the first six weeks of the fall semester. God continued to work profusely in the hearts of MBCollegiate students throughout the rest of the semester, bringing another 21 students to salvation by the end of the year. Here are some of their stories, as relayed to us by campus missionaries and student leaders. Campus Missionary James Mohler … [Read more...]
Overflow Church ‘saturates community with the overflowing love of Jesus’
GRANDVIEW – Overflow Church in the Kansas City suburb of Grandview, hopes to reach its community for Christ though a mission of “saturating (the) community with the overflowing love of Jesus.'" (See related story here.) Pastor Alan Findley says the recent church plant is doing that by blending its congregation with another, and through partnerships with other established churches. Overflow began in 2020 as a new church work of NAMB’s SEND program, and Blue Valley Church across the state … [Read more...]
Octogenarian couple aim to be ‘part of what God is doing’ at church plant
GRANDVIEW – Their mid-80s seemed a perfect time for Conrad and Donna Krieger to jump into a new work as church planters when Overflow Church began in a suburban area of young families and varied ethnicities. (See related story here.) And, for a couple used to traveling around the country in a motorhome with their family to sing in small churches, moving though several Kansas City locations as Overflow found a permanent building was nothing new. The Kriegers attended Blue Valley Church in … [Read more...]
Conference to equip families to care for aging loved ones
FLORISSANT – Support for those tasked with caring for aging loved ones is the goal of a special conference to be held on Feb. 22 at Salem Baptist Church in Florissant. “Finding Hope During Family Crises,” a five-hour event, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., will feature four guest speakers from a variety of agencies and disciplines concerned with aging and the challenges that go with family care. “So many families are taken more or less by surprise by the issues that come about when … [Read more...]
Bismarck FBC makes disciples, builds community connections
BISMARCK – Making connections and disciples is the focus of the ministries at First Baptist Church (FBC), Bismarck. The church builds connections with the community and equips mature Christians to disciple younger Christians. “Our missions committee had funds that we wanted to use to bless the community,” Eddie Wakefield, co-chair of the missions committee, said. “We made up 8-10 groups of a mix of youth with older adults, gave them funds and told them to find people in the community that … [Read more...]
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