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Return to Japan gratifying for Seats

Return to Japan gratifying for Seats

When asked, Leroy and June Seat are hard-pressed to name the most satisfying aspect of their recent trip to Japan. Just once again visiting the country they called home for nearly 38 years could be a starting point.

Common denominator for new churches: They all need funds

Common denominator for new churches: They all need funds

Regardless of the method or process used to start them, all new church plants have one thing in common—the need for money.

Partnerships keep Liberty churches in Haiti for the long-haul

Partnerships keep Liberty churches in Haiti for the long-haul

Second Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist churches are partnering with others to assist the Caribbean nation to overcome the effects of a Jan. 12 earthquake.

Columbia church ministers through vehicle maintenance

Columbia church ministers through vehicle maintenance

COLUMBIA — Seven years ago, Kevin and Sara Gaines led their church to provide maintenance for single mothers.

MBU hosts first House of Worship Crime Prevention Workshop

MBU hosts first House of Worship Crime Prevention Workshop

The reality of the vulnerability of most churches and synagogues birthed training at MBU for houses of worship.

 
FBC lets its light shine in Farmington
By Vicki Brown   
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

First Baptist Church, Farmington, may not sit on a hill, but its light shines through its "You are the Light" family ministry each summer. Members wield paintbrushes. Others clean gutters and trim brush, and some handle power-washers, all at no cost to those they serve. The ministry allows them to connect people to the Lord and make a difference throughout the city.

 
MBU's Rob Cornwell passes away
By Word&Way Staff   
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Rob Cornwell, 44, longtime alumni director at Missouri Baptist University and a former president of the Missouri Baptist Development Council, passed away on July 13. More than 800 MBU faculty, staff, students and alumni celebrated Cornwell's life with his family at a memorial service on campus on July 18.
 
Church starting — an old strategy
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Baptist church starts today might look very different and use methodologies that would seem foreign to first-century believers. But the church-starting emphasis originated in the earliest church; what we do today simply carries on that tradition/strategy.
 
Rodeo training reaches students for Christ
By Vicki Brown   
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

UNIONVILLE — On most days, the raucous cries of seasoned auctioneers fills the sale barn at the Putnam County Fairgrounds. But from June 9-12, that sale barn rang with praise from the lips of 81 young cowboys and cowgirls.

For the fourth straight year, Kevin Collins, pastor of Omaha Baptist Church in Putnam County, and a staff of volunteers hosted a Rodeo Bible Camp that fuels students' thirst for God through instruction in cowboy skills.

 
Missourians help dedicate House of Mercy in Belarus
By Jim Nelson   
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
A delegation from The Baptist Home, headed by President Steven Jones and musicians from First Baptist churches of Farmington, Dexter, Oak Grove and Jackson, helped dedicate the Baptist House of Mercy in Kobrin, Belarus, on June 26. The facility will house up to 54 elderly Belarusian Baptists. 
 

Excerpt from Dr. William Shaw's message address to the 8th Annual Meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Missouri on March 26, 2010, at First Baptist Church, Lee's Summit, Mo.

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