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The 2011 promotion emphasis is almost here
“They even asked and begged us to let them have the joy of giving their money for God’s people.” — II Corinthians 8:4 (CEV)
“From Me to Missouri” is the theme for the Missouri Missions Offering emphasis in September of 2011.
God’s people want to help others with physical needs and to share the love of Jesus with those who do not yet know Him. I believe that with all of my heart. I also know that we want to not only send, pray, and give money, but to SHARE in the meeting of those needs. Much of the emphasis for the Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering is about praying and giving. But just like the churches of Macedonia, churches across Missouri want to generously give of themselves and their money by these loving actions: Sharing Christ’s love, Sending missionaries, and Starting churches.
This year as churches seek to educate and enlist the involvement of people in the pew it will be personal. “From Me to Missouri” is a means of involving “Me” in Missouri Missions. The materials used in this MMO emphasis, whether it be a simple bulletin insert or a powerful video, will show people how they are already involved as a Missouri Baptist, and how they can be more involved.
“Won’t you partner with us…to reach as many Missouri Baptists as we can for this great Kindgom opportunity?”
The dollars given in the Fall of 2011 will be used in the ministries of MMO in 2012. We encourage you to use the provided materials: a top quality video DVD for the worship services, a Promotional booklet & CD that have bulletin inserts and a preschool and children’s sermon, and a sermon starter that the pastor might like to use.
In today’s internet age, we are able to share electronically as well as personally. Our MMO web resources, including this website and our Facebook page make it easier than ever to get our message of Sharing, Sending and Starting out to the people of Missouri. Won’t you partner with us in your church and on the web to reach as many Missouri Baptists as we can for this great Kingdom opportunity?
Watch your church mail box for your MMO promotion packet to arrive in June.
Spencer Hutson
Cooperative Program / Biblical Stewardship Specialist
Missouri Baptist Convention
Campus Chinese Baptist Church starts at Springfield
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 »
Missouri churches needed to partner with church plants in Ontario and Africa
Rick Hedger shares his salvation story with a Soninke villager in Mali.
Recently MBC hosted a Western Gateway Summit and Base Camp 1 at FBC Arnold, MO where representatives from 27 MBC churches were trained to participate in our partnership for this region of Africa. The partnership is beginning to strengthen as we specifically pray that the Lord will call out 36 MBC churches to become engaging churches to the unreached, unengaged peoples of the Western Gateway Cluster of Sub-Sahara Africa.
Click here for more info about African partnerships!
Missouri Baptist Convention and Canadian National Baptist Convention have partnered together to seek out 50 indigenous church planters from Ontario to pastor our possible 50 church starts in Northern Ontario. Gary Smith, our NAMB National Missionary, hosted a series of One Day Church Planter trainings September 20-25 throughout Northern Ontario. As God calls out indigenous church planters, MBC churches and associations will have someone to actually partner with as they follow the Lord Jesus on mission in Northern Ontario. Please continue to pray to the Lord of the Harvest that He will call out laborers into His harvest fields of Northern Ontario.
Click here for more info about Ontario partnerships!
These trainings were both made possible as a result of the Partnership Missions portion of your faithful giving to the Missouri Missions Offering. Thank you on behalf of all those in Ontario and the nations of Africa that respond to the gospel as a result of this training.
April, 2010. Kyle Beverlin (hidden behind the boys), Nathan Dawson and Rick Hedger share the Lord with a group of young men at a skateboard park in Fort Frances, Ontario.
The Chin people are uniting and thriving in Missouri!
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 »
Welcome to the MMO Resources website!
“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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