Missouri Missions Offering

Can you believe it is almost September already? The four Sundays of September this year are the suggested Sundays for promoting the Missouri Missions Offering in your church. Imagine your congregation working together for the shared purpose of learning about Missouri Missions, praying for those who will be helped, and collecting gifts from your congregation that will go specifically to Missouri missions! The Missouri Missions Offering is about helping people in our state. Missouri missions is about you.

Just think about how you will benefit from promoting the Missouri Missions Offering in your church:

• Giving through the Missouri Missions Offering as a congregation will give your church renewed unity of purpose and mission!
• You’ll gain a feeling of accomplishment knowing that you are supporting vital ministries across the state.
• You can be satisfied that all of your MMO gifts will be used specifically to support Missouri causes.
• Giving through the Missouri Missions Offering lets you share in accomplishing more by giving together with other Missouri Baptist Churches than your church can accomplish on its own.
• By watching the video segments, you will see many people who have been helped and hear many stories about the ministries that the offering supports.
• By praying for the people whom MMO helps, you’ll come closer to God and become more like Jesus.
• You’ll feel richly blessed when you become a blessing to others!

Not ready yet?

If you need promotion materials there still is time to put your promotion together. If you need a promotion packet, order by phone by calling 800-736-6227, ext. 201.

Click here to read through the Quickstart Plan located on this website. It will tell you how to promote MMO.

Or…download duplication masters and resources from this website. Click here to visit the Downloads page.

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If you think you were hot and sweaty here in Missouri over the past couple of weeks, imagine yourself wading through dirty water and cleaning mud out of someone else’s house. That’s just what one of your Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief teams has been doing. Here are some new photos from our Disaster Relief work at Big Lake Baptist Church, located in northwest Missouri (about 50 miles north of St. Joseph). Jim Griffey and his team went there in late July and early August and did several mud out jobs. Here’s a report from Jim… Read the rest of this entry »

Lexie Cook

Several students served Missouri Baptists this summer as student summer interns at the Missouri Baptist Convention office at Jefferson City. During the course of the internship they had the opportunity to participate in many ministry opportunities including Super Summer. They also got to work side-by-side with MBC specialists and to learn about the ministries of the Missouri Baptist Convention.

Here’s what they had to say about the experience…

“‘In various ways, and among all kinds of people, Jesus called men to evaluate the product of their lives. This was the revelation of what they were.’ This quote from Dr. Robert Coleman, is in essence what the internship with the Student Ministry Team was for me. It was living life among people to help me to evaluate my life thus far and to discover the importance that evangelism has to God and how if we want to be a part of what God is doing we have to be filling our souls with who God is and letting it ooze out of our very being.”—Lexie Cook

Tabitha Burge

“It was such an honor and a joy to come live life and work with the Student Ministry Team. It was an incredible time of discipleship and growth, and I am so grateful for all that God has taught me this summer!”—Tabitha Burge

Chelsea Watkins

“I have done the internship two different summers and both times God has rocked my world. Interning with the Student Ministry Team allowed me to experience ten weeks of intense discipleship, community, and growth. My life will forever be changed.”—Chelsea Watkins

In 2011, Collegiate Summer Missions will receive $110,000 from the Missouri Missions Offering. Without your gifts through the Missouri Missions Offering, students like these would not have the opportunity to have this experience.

Momentum can be defined as the quantity of motion of a moving body. If we were to sum up the experiences of this past month at Peine Ridge Church, it would be in these two words: gaining momentum. God has truly been gracious to us, providing abundantly more than what we’ve deserved. He has brought people, resources, favor with the community, and time to accomplish the work. We stand in awe of Him today, recognizing that He is opening the doors and holding our hands through it all. (Isaiah 45:1)

Though our history is short, we’ve had some exciting times in the life of our church. I still remember that first night our core team sat huddled in our living room crying out to God to Read the rest of this entry »

This is the “overview” video…

You can see the rest of the video segments by clicking here at MMO Videos. All of these videos are included on a DVD in the MMO Promotion packet that was mailed to each Missouri Baptist Church in July. If you want us to send you a copy of the DVD, call 800-736-6227, ext. 201 or click here at Contact Us to send us an e-mail message. The DVD has high quality videos that you can play on your computer and video projector. Enjoy.

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Ngun lap and his family.

God is so good! Yes He is! On December 31, 2005 my family of five moved to Springfield, Missouri. We are part of the Chin people who are from Burma (Myanmar). Many of our people came to know the Lord Jesus Christ through the initial efforts of missionaries many years ago. Like many other people groups in the United States, the Chin people are refugees. Our family initially came here for business purposes, but my dream was that one day our community would be reunited and become a church here. One year after arriving, a family of seven who are good friends came to join us. Two months later my niece and her husband came, too, and we began to have Sunday night prayer meetings. Read the rest of this entry »

When you give through the Missouri Missions Offering this year, $127,500 of the offering will help support the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home in 2011. Missouri Baptist Children’s Home is “committed to serving God by responding to the needs of children, youth and families to make a lasting difference in their lives.” MBCH cares for children and youth at several campuses located throughout the state, providing spiritual guidance, counseling and a safe haven from abuse and neglect.

• The Lowe-Frillman Campus is located in the St. Louis suburb of Bridgeton Missouri. This campus is licensed for 72 children in residential care and houses the largest population of both residents and staff members.
• The Byrne Campus is located in the Kansas City suburb of Peculiar, Missouri. This campus opened in 1985 with the construction of a group home to serve Western Missouri. Currently this campus is designed to care for 12 boys in residential care.
• In the fall of 1990, the Greg Dalton Campus, located at Lamar, Missouri, opened with one home licensed to care for 10 children. This campus is used by MBCH Children and Family Ministries as a group home for long-term behavioral foster care.
• The Hutchens Campus, located at Mt. Vernon, Missouri, opened in 1986. This campus features four group homes with a licensed capacity of 42 children. The Hutchens Campus is used by MBCH Children and Family Ministries to provide residential care for both boys and girls and the Transitional Living Program.
• In addition to the campuses owned by MBCH Properties, MBCH Children and Family Ministries has regional offices in Branson, Hannibal, Jefferson City, Joplin, Lee’s Summit, and Springfield. These offices focus on foster and adoptive parent recruiting, training and placement and case management for children needing homes around the state.

Click here to read more about the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home.

The Missouri Baptist Children’s Home is one of the agencies that benefited the most when Dr. Rheubin L. South combined several Missouri Baptist Convention offerings into one offering, forming what is now called the Missouri Missions Offering in 1985. Click here to read more about the History of the Missouri Missions Offering.

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Cowboy. Hello, my name is David Kenyon. I reside on a small farm in a simple, little rural community in Moniteau County, Missouri. It happens to be the highest point in the county, so they simply named it High Point, Missouri. I have been married to my high school sweetheart, Julie for 17 years in July, which I thank God for bringing her into my life each day. We have been blessed with two beautiful children, Stacey (12) and Tyler (9). I grew up in southwest Missouri on a small farm south of Branson, Missouri where I began a love for cattle and horses. Working around livestock at several local sale barns in Missouri and Arkansas for a cattle order buyer, the country and western heritage became a way of life, which I still enjoy today. Read the rest of this entry »

Missouri State Capitol Building

Did you know that some MMO funds are used annually to pay a stipend to our Missouri Baptist Legislative liason who lobbies for issues in Jefferson City that are important to Missouri Baptists? He works at the direction of the Christian Life Commission to make our presence known at the Missouri State Capitol and serves to represent Missouri Baptist views and report back to us when and where the Missouri Baptist Convention needs to get involved. This has been a great relationship and without MMO funding, the Christian Life Commission would be unable to serve Missouri Baptists in this way.

This service is payed for by the Christian Life Commission of the Missouri Baptist Convention. The 2010/2011 MMO Allocations Budget includes $10,000 for use by the Christian Life Commission. The Christian Life Commission of Missouri is dedicated to educating and assisting the local church on social, ethical, and moral issues; and their impact on the local church and family. You can find out more about what the Christian Life Commission is doing by visiting the Christian Life Commission Facebook page.

Here is a story from Amber Quirin, a college student summer missionary from last summer:

The boy’s name was Daiquan. He first came to VBS with his babysitter on a Wednesday night, the night that we talked about the resurrection. When I told the kids about how Jesus had risen from the dead, Daiquan asked, “But what if He didn’t?” Honestly, the question totally caught me off guard, especially since all my other kids seemed to have a pretty good grasp of the Bible and its teachings. I paused and said, Read the rest of this entry »