May 2008 - Word&Way

By Jennifer Harris Word&Way News Writer If Christians don’t learn to engage the popular culture that surrounds them, they will drown in it, experts insist. Christians tend to hear the words ‘popular culture’ and react as if spitting something yucky from their mouths,”

2008 Archives

Won’t you be my (virtual) neighbor?

May 29, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Ken Satterfield If you write a media column, people expect you to keep up with cutting-edge gizmos. That’s not always the case. Sometimes technologies have passed me by, some I can’t afford and others I am just not interested in

2008 Archives

MBC leader Webster Brown dies at 85

May 29, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

Long-time Missouri Baptist Convention staffer Webster C. Brown, 85, of Columbia, died May 28 at Lenoir Woods Health Care Center. Services will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 30, at Calvary Baptist Church in Columbia, with burial following in Memorial Park Cemetery.

2008 Archives

Faith helps MBU grad weather adversity to receive her degree

May 28, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Bryce Chapman Missouri Baptist University Somewhere in the seemingly endless sea of black caps and gowns, a single mother waited to walk across the commencement stage. Cynthia Grochowski’s husband died unexpectedly a month before their youngest son was born. It was that unforeseen tragedy

2008 Archives

Commission delays zoning decision on former property of Windermere

May 27, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Vicki Brown Word&Way Correspondent Camdenton — Camden County planning and zoning commissioners delayed action on a zoning change that would have allowed development of land formerly owned by Windermere Baptist Conference Center. Springfield businessman William Jester will have to wait another month to

2008 Archives

Fifty-eight years after starting at SBU widowed businesswoman gets degree

May 27, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Jennifer Harris Word&Way News Writer A love of music led Berniece Hamilton to begin college in 1950. Passion for learning drove her to complete her college degree 58 years later through Southwest Baptist University’s Lebanon campus. On May 17, Hamilton walked across the stage

2008 Archives

Burma still needs help of Baptists

May 27, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor Burma was a blip that wasn’t even on the radar screen of Adoniram and Ann (Hasseltine) Judson when they set sail from New England as Congregational missionaries to India back in 1812. The young missionaries arrived in Calcutta as Baptists;

2008 Archives

Missouri marathoners carry their faith to the starting line

May 14, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Jennifer Harris Word&Way News Writer Four Missouri marathoners all say the endurance sport provides an avenue for deepening their faith, giving them time to focus on God and helping them enhance other areas of life. One of them, Hugh Emerson, member of First Baptist

2008 Archives

Executive Board grapples with legal fees, flat giving

May 13, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

JEFFERSON CITY — Mounting legal fees and what Missouri Baptist Convention leaders are calling flat Cooperative Program giving has prompted the MBC Executive Board to set a 2009 budget goal of $16.3 million, a decline of $200,000 from the 2008 goal, according to The Pathway.

2008 Archives

Baptists mobilize relief efforts after Mother’s Day tornadoes

May 13, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Vicki Brown (ABP) – Various Baptist disaster-relief groups began mobilizing chainsaw teams and feeding units May 12 to assist victims of deadly tornadoes that tore across the Midwest and Southeast Mother’s Day weekend. The storms claimed the lives of

Pass the popcorn: Christians struggle with best approach to engage culture

Won’t you be my (virtual) neighbor?

MBC leader Webster Brown dies at 85

Faith helps MBU grad weather adversity to receive her degree

Commission delays zoning decision on former property of Windermere

Fifty-eight years after starting at SBU widowed businesswoman gets degree

Burma still needs help of Baptists

Missouri marathoners carry their faith to the starting line

Executive Board grapples with legal fees, flat giving

Baptists mobilize relief efforts after Mother’s Day tornadoes

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