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Missouri Disaster Relief volunteers ‘serving Christ in crisis’
Ron Crow, Chaplain (center)
The year 2011 has been called the “Year of Disasters.” Your Missouri Baptist Convention Disaster Relief volunteers have served faithfully in St. Louis after the Spring tornado, Poplar Bluff and Morehouse following the spring and summer flooding, at Joplin as they recover from the EF-5 tornado, and in Northeast Missouri, cleaning up from the flood there.
Your Missouri Mission Offering dollars help fund a very large portion of the Disaster Relief operating budget. Thank you for helping “Serve Christ in the Crisis.” Our state offering goal this year is $750,000.
Peine Ridge is gaining momentum at Wentzville
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 »
Does MMO support thrashers?
Nathan is the Student Pastor of one of our MBC churches. He was struggling with whether or not he could go on a mission team to Northern Ontario. The decision to go was in consultation with Nathan, his pastor, and Rick Hedger, Partnership Missions Specialist of the MBC. As the team traveled from one town to another, Nathan was continually drawn to those older teenagers and young adults hanging around the city skateboard parks. As the team took photos and talked to those present, one young man readily gave his life to Christ. He quickly called his friends together and told them what he had done. On the return trip through this community, Read the rest of this entry »
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“But someone will say, ‘you have faith; I have deeds.’ Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.” James 2:18 NIV.
Show-Me Faithful is the theme for Missouri Missions Offering emphasis in September of 2010. Now more than ever before, Missouri Baptists must be “doers of the Word.”
Our culture today is overloaded with words and rhetoric. We have people spending hours sharing their opinion on everything from politics to theology. We have come to understand that although programs are good they many times lose sight of their original purpose. James said it well when he said; …“I will show you my faith by what I do.”
Show-Me Faithful will enable Missouri Baptists to see missions up close and personal. MMO is all about action. The missions dollars received this fall will be put into action beginning in January of 2011. Together Missouri Baptists will show the world that we are Christians by our loving actions: sharing Christ’s love, sending missionaries, and starting churches.
This year MMO will be promoted differently than in recent years. We will not send out speakers to the churches but rather provide improved promotional materials for churches to promote the offering throughout the month of September. Churches can still invite MBC staff and Directors of Missions to their churches to speak. However, the improved materials provided in the promotion packet include a top quality video DVD, bulletin inserts and teaching materials, a sermon starter for a pastor to use, as well as the new option of ordering materials online or downloading them from this website. If you didn’t receive a promotion packet in the mail, please call 800-736-6227, ext. 201 and we will send one to you. I sincerely hope that these improved materials and new ordering options will allow you more freedom in promoting the offering in your church.
—Spencer Hutson, Cooperative Program/Biblical Stewardship Specialist, MBC
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