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 »

I believe that the Missouri Missions Offering is an incredible way for churches to give cooperatively to the cause of Christ here in our great state. Our faithful giving allows ministry and missions to go beyond what one church may be able to do on their own and gives greater impact. The MMO is not just another time of collection, it is a time for us to give towards the mission of reaching our state in the name of Jesus Christ.

—Ned Nugent, Senior Pastor, FBC Bethany

In Matthew 28:19, Jesus commands us to go and make disciples. In Acts 1:8, Jesus says we will be his witnesses beginning in Jerusalem and reaching to the ends of the earth. As we read “Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the ends of the earth,” to us it translates “Marshfield, Missouri, the United States and the world.” As a local church, we want to have people serving in each of these mission areas. The Missouri Missions Offering is a key way in which all of our people can reach across our state with the gospel. MMO helps us to reach our “Judea.” Through MMO we are sharing Jesus with people all across Missouri. Through MMO we are helping to plant new churches, train pastors and church leaders, and we are sending more people into the harvest field of Missouri. MMO helps us to do what Jesus calls us to do.

—Durwin Kicker, Pastor, FBC Marshfield

Connie Handyside of the Mt. Salem Wyaconda Association chain saw unit experienced what we all pray and hope all disaster relief responses will involve. While responding after an ice storm at Cape Girardeau, Mo., Connie visited with a homeowner and shared the gospel. The Lord used her availability and witness as a disaster relief chaplain to convince that lady of her need for Jesus Christ. Connie had the privilege of leading her to faith in Christ right there on her front porch.

The Missouri Missions offering assists churches and associations in training Disaster Relief workers in the areas of mass care, providing a trailer for people to take a hot shower, learning to use a chain saw, child care, “mud out” (cleaning mud from flooded homes), assessment, and chaplains. Funds also are used for the upkeep of equipment and for maintaining the state Disaster Relief facility located at Marshall, Missouri.

—From Rick Seaton, Men’s Ministries Specialist, MBC

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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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