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By Philip Wong. Thank you for praying for Campus Chinese Baptist Church’s (CCBC) first Sunday morning worship service . God answered your prayers. The whole experience was a miracle.

At around 10:50 a.m., the worship team and other co-workers got into a circle near the kitchen to prayer. As I glanced at the rows of empty seats to my left, I felt disheartened. I closed my eyes, bowed and silently said to God, “I have faith in You.”

At 11:00 a.m., still only a handful of people had arrived. Since it was our first day, we decided to wait a little bit. Shortly after, people started to pour in and I found myself helping the greeters to welcome people. In the upstairs hallway, it was packed with people waiting to receive sticky name tags. As the seats were about to fill up, I had to ask Roger Turnbough and a few male students to help bring out more chairs from the storage room. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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 »

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 »