Missouri Missions Offering

Church Planting

• In 2010, the church planting team provided Start-up or Strategic Next Step funds to 10 church plants in addition to providing monthly support for 21 church planters. The ethnicity break down consisted of 11 Anglo, four African American, and 11 multicultural/ethnic plants. Fifty percent of the plants were in urban settings with the remainder being split between suburban and rural settings.
• As of March 2011, the team has committed to provide 17 planters with monthly support, two planters with Strategic Next Step requests, as well as providing funds for mobile classrooms to enable a multi-housing ministry to minister in various locations of their community. The plants receiving MMO funds to date for 2011 consist of four Anglo, two African American, and 10 multicultural/ethnic congregations. Eight plants are in urban settings, two suburban, and six in rural settings.
• In addition, multi-cultural ministries were provided with MMO funds for the following events:

2010

• Assisted with the Hispanic Youth Camp.
• Assisted in leadership training for Chin (Burma/Myanmar) church leaders.
• Multi-ethnic Christmas holiday celebrations in four regions of Missouri.
• Evangelism Conference Breakout Sessions for Ethnic Church Planters/Pastors.
• Six Childhood Ministry Modules for new church plants were created in 2010.

2011 (to date)

• Trained 81 ethnic pastors and church leaders in two Evangelism & Growth Workshops.

Multi-Housing Ministry

• In 2010, through Northland Baptist Church (Kansas City) MMO funds assisted in providing supplies and materials for an Easter egg hunt, multiple Vacation Bible Schools, a community garage sale, and Christmas assistance to families in a nearby multi-housing community.
• Lifebuilders Ministries in Springfield are ministering in seven low-income apartment communities with 84 weekly volunteers serving over 500 families. They conduct (weekly) 11 adult bible studies and 18 children’s classes with an average attendance of 240 people per week. Events such as; block parties, Easter events, Christmas celebrations, Vacation Bible Schools, field trips, movie nights, etc. are conducted at each location.
• In 2011, funds have been provided to Lifebuilders Ministries for mobile classrooms to enable them to minister to multiple sites in various locations where space is limited.

Small Church Ministry Fund

• In 2010, the MMO Small Church Ministry Fund assisted two MBC churches. Calvary Baptist Church in Jefferson City received assistance for the Mid-Missouri Mission Team evangelistic event for youth in several counties. Bridge of Faith Community Church in Rockaway Beach received assistance for their worship ministry.

Freeway Foundation

• Through the FreeWay Project, FreeWay Foundation provides trained Prevention Specialists to present our K-12 drug and violence prevention curriculum in public schools free of charge.
• In 2010, FreeWay Foundation was on campus 165 days in 75 public schools teaching about the dangers of substance abuse and violence.
• In 2010, FreeWay Foundation made 779 classroom presentations in public schools teaching drug and violence prevention education, reaching a student attendance of 16,011.
• In 2010, FreeWay Foundation sent six prevention specialists into Missouri public schools to give Biblical value-based presentations about drug and violence prevention.
• FreeWay Foundation will train church staff/volunteers (free of charge) to present our drug and violence prevention K-12 curriculum in their local public school system as a public service and outreach opportunity.

Christian Women’s Job Corp

• Mission Statement: Christian Women’s Job Corps seeks to affirm the worth of every woman by investing in one-on-one relationships where women are taught life & job skills and the personal application of God’s Word.

Mentoring/Outreach:

• Nine women were mentored. All nine women were with CWJC prior to 2010. These women received assistance with jobs, moves, and schooling.
• Ninety-nine boxes of clothing were delivered to the Vandalia Women’s Prison. Two cases of Bibles, several boxes of shoes, and personal hygiene products were also provided.

GED/Education

• GED classes were held. 13 students completed a combined total of over 580 hours of instruction. Six additional students earned their GED & 3 continued their education:
• CWJC provided scholarships to fund half the cost of testing for many of our students.
• CWJC continued to support two women taking online medical classes.

Loaves and Fishes, Food Assistance

• Over 600 meals were served by volunteers representing CWJC. Feed the Hungry Funds were used on 36 different occasions. Meals were provided for 123 women/families in need.

Volunteers

• CWJC volunteers donated more than 1,825 hours of volunteer service and 3,000 miles of travel to minister to men, women, and families in need.

Christian Life Commission

• The purpose and the responsibility of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s CLC is to educate and to encourage the churches of the MBC to challenge their congregations to the ideal of incarnational living—fleshing out the Christian life in a secular world by being ‘salt and light’. The commission is charged with keeping Missouri Baptists current on issues like Family Life, Human Rights, Moral and Ethical concerns, Citizenship, and Religious liberty.
• The majority of MMO funds received by the CLC are used annually to employ our Missouri Baptist Legislative Liaison who lobbies for issues in Jefferson City that are important to Missouri Baptists. He works at the direction of the CLC to make our presence known at the Capitol and serves to represent MBC views and report back to us where we need to get involved. This has been a great relationship and without MMO monies, we would be unable to serve Missouri Baptists in this way.
• The remainder of the money is used for emphasis Sunday mailings to MBC churches.

Sports Evangelism

• The Student Ministry Team had the privilege to partner with Sports Crusaders last summer to see 26 missionaries serve on the mission field for 10 weeks through sports ministry. During those 10 weeks they were able to host 105 camps. As a result of those camps there were 2,051 campers who heard the Gospel and 335 made professions of faith!
• Sports Evangelism (Sports Crusaders)
• In 2010, 26 Sports Crusaders led 105 camps.
• In the 105 camps, 2,051 young people were in attendance.
• There were 335 professions of faith.
• In the camps, 2,058 Bibles were given away.
• Sports Crusaders served in six states (Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, Alabama) and El Salvador

Missouri Baptist Children’s Home

• In 2010, there were 99 babies born that may have been aborted had it not been for the ministry of Missouri Baptist Children’s Home.
• In 2010, there were 71 youth served in Therapeutic Group Homes, 72 in Crisis Care, 36 in Transitional Living Programs and eight in Developmental Disabilities Services.
• Pregnancy Services worked with 160 mothers (or mothers-to-be) and 99 infants.
• Eighty-nine new Foster Homes were licensed by MBCH Children and Family Ministries. Eighty-nine children were served in Therapeutic Family Foster Care, 411 children were served in Family Foster Care. Twenty-six families were served through Intensive Family Reunification Services and 71 families were served through Intensive In Home Services.
• Twenty-seven children in the care of MBCH made professions of faith in 2010.
• MBCH Children and Family Ministries provided 249,986 total days of service delivery. Nearly 90% of all service to children and families was provided through Community-Based services while only 10% took place on one of the three MBCH campuses.

Partnership Missions

2010

• Discipleship material for women’s conference in El Salvador.
• Evangelism tracts in Spanish/English.
• Provided funds for material to replace heating in Kansas City Haitian Church.
• Provided orientation/training for mission teams.
• Purchased Basic Training Mission Team Workbooks and Impact Your Worlds DVDs to use in training of mission teams.
• Provided funds to Hidden Bluff Ministries for construction of mock African Village for orientation and training.
• Provided funds to aid in the placement of a M.O.S.T. (Missions On Short-Term) couple assisting in the partnership among MBC, CNBC and NAMB for the purpose of researching Ontario communities for our MBC Partnership.
• Provided scholarship funds for pastors going on MBC vision trips to Northern Ontario.
• Purchased storying training material for churches involved in the Western Gateway Partnership.
• Purchased missional prayer material to assist churches in praying for people around the world.
• Provided funds to Fairview BC, St Louis to repair childcare center due to flood damage from storm.
• Partnered with Thousand Hills Baptist Association to provide funds to purchase medical supplies for El Salvador.

2011

• Purchased journals to give to El Salvador pastors’ wives at Women’s Conference during ABES Annual Meeting in January.
• Purchased Spanish books to give to El Salvador Pastors during ABES Annual Meeting.
• Provided funds for El Salvadoran pastor to purchase visa to come to Missouri for the MBC Annual Meeting at Tan-Tar-A on October 30-November 2.
• Purchased 100 DVDS of the Jesus Film for Wright Douglas Ozark Association to distribute in Dryden Ontario in July.

Disaster Relief

• All of the monies that make up the Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief operating budget come from MMO gifts.
• Disaster relief volunteers provided 0 meals, 20 showers, nine loads of laundry, and 25 chain saw jobs during 1010.
• Seventeen Gospel presentations and 16 Ministry contacts were recorded during 2010 as a result of disaster relief ministry.
• Volunteers responded to six incidents during 2010. These included windstorms and flooding; both in state and out of state.
• Disaster relief provided shower/laundry units for World Changers, 3MT volunteers, camps, building teams, and mission teams in Missouri and Illinois.
• Eight regional trainings were held in 2010. Missouri has 2,230 current volunteers. This is a decrease from last year due to the new re-training guidelines.
• A new Communications unit was brought on-line in 2010.
• Three trainings were held from January through April, 2011 which added over 100 more trained volunteers. Five additional trainings are scheduled for 2011.
• MBC Disaster Relief now has over 250 trained chaplains.
• Missouri collected 3,645 Buckets of Hope for Haiti relief.
• Seven of our DR training team attended the 2010 Roundtable in Wisconsin.
• We conducted ICS and CISM training.

Baptist Builders

• Baptist Builders provided labor to replace heating system in Haitian church in North Kansas City.
• Our building team continued work on building homes in El Salvador as a follow up to Hurricane Ida.
• Leighton Clemons coordinated and worked along side teams to build a kitchen at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City for use for construction teams coming in to build a new chapel.
• Leighton Clemons coordinated the electrical work of the new Chapel being built for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary along with many Missouri Baptist Volunteers.

Student Ministry

Summer Missions

• This year we had the privilege of training and commissioning 39 summer missionaries who served at 63 different camps and Vacation Bible Schools in partnership with 433 Missouri Baptist churches. As a result of the ministry that took place over those 10 weeks, we saw 163 professions of faith, 88 who renewed their commitment to follow Christ, and 11 church-related vocation decisions. Praise the Lord!

Youth Evangelism & Missions

• Super Summer was held June 14-18, 2010 at HLG and June 21-25, 2010 at SBU. Between the two weeks of ministry there were 522 students and 94 youth leaders from 64 churches were involved in Super Summer along with approximately 90 staff and leaders. As a result of what God did during those two weeks we know of 29 students who surrendered their lives to Christ, 30 students who rededicated their lives to Christ, and five students who committed to serve God in ministry. Our theme this year was FLIP and we challenged students during teaching times on the Beatitudes and then walked through the Gospel during the evening worship times, hearing from Matt Kearns, Bob Caldwell, Ron Cathcart, and Joshua Hedger.
• Three high school students traveled to London for Super Summer Global mission trip July 3-13 through our partnership with iGo Global Ministries. During their time in London, they participated in prayer walking, relational evangelism in local parks, and participated in outreach events to help the local IMB missionaries in their ministry.
• We had a great summer mission project in partnership with Global Encounter Ministries in St. Louis, Missouri and East
• St. Louis, Illinois. There were 62 churches involved with 652 young missionaries and leaders. These missionaries served in 18 ministry sites simultaneously. They shared the Gospel with more than 1,000 people on multiple days and saw 132 people start a relationship with Jesus. Several of those have followed through with Baptism which certainly demonstrates understanding and sincerity. Perhaps as exciting as that were the young missionaries who are our next generation leaders that we had the privilege to train.

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