Southwest Baptist University recently held a very special baby shower in its Department of Nursing to celebrate the arrival of exciting new training technology. Thanks to a $142,158 grant through Missouri’s Nursing Education Incentive Program, SBU purchased birthing simulators and related tools to enhance instruction in maternal, newborn, and post-partum care. Students will gain hands-on knowledge and experience in the vital discipline of labor and delivery health care.
Missouri
Storms keep Missouri Disaster Relief active
The sound of storm warning sirens is surely frightening for anyone who lived in the Joplin area in 2011, when an EF5 tornado destroyed more than a fourth of the city and killed 185 people. Fortunately, the tornado that hit the area on May 6 wasn’t nearly as bad as the 2011 EF5. Not only were there no deaths or injuries, but no houses were destroyed. Still, the storms left hundreds of downed trees in their path as they moved across parts of Joplin and neighboring Carthage.
National
‘I want to be the pastor’: Hadaway addresses ‘Law Amendment,’ to be considered at SBC annual meeting
Messengers to the 2024 SBC annual meeting in June will vote on an amendment which would add a sixth subparagraph to Article III, Paragraph 1 of the SBC Constitution. The ‘Law Amendment,’ as it is called, states that a church will be in friendly cooperation only if it “affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”
Columns
The church of today
“I would graciously disagree with anyone arguing that college students are the future of the church. Instead, I would suggest that college students are the present church, fully capable of leading and serving well! I would further suggest that many college students desire to lead and/or serve, and in the right context will do so with great passion.”
Apologetics
He will judge the nations
The second coming of Jesus is implied in hundreds of Old Testament prophecies that center on future judgment of the world and a coming kingdom of righteousness. Jesus and the New Testament writers elevate these ancient prophecies and apply them to the unfinished but guaranteed future work of the Savior.
Global
Nearly 50 Christians killed in Nigeria attacks; dozens wounded, displaced
Nearly 50 Christians have been killed in a series of militant attacks on villages in Nigeria’s Benue, Plateau and Kaduna states in late April through early May, with dozens more wounded and displaced, according to news reports.
Culture
Joplin church releases ‘Undefiled’ movie
Christian movie-goers are slowly becoming used to more faith-based films being available to watch at home or at the box office, but one Missouri church is taking matters into its own hands to release new films and follow up with resources that point people back to the biblical truths brought up on screen.