Sports Crusaders celebrate ‘summer of legacy’
Sports Crusaders, a Missouri-based sports ministry, celebrated its 20th season as a "summer of legacy," serving 2,544 campers and seeing 342 students turn to Jesus as Savior.
Many workers extend current jobs or choose ‘encore careers’
Switching careers, rather than retiring, helps some boomers bridge the gap between their desire to make a social difference and to meet their economic needs.
Tapping baby boomer retirees requires churches to rethink ministry options
Churches that want to tap baby boomer retirees' resources may need to rethink the ministries they ask mature adults to take on.
Baptist leaders: Learn lessons from Ferguson
The killing of a Ferguson, Mo., teenager and the riots that followed can teach Christ-followers and churches a few lessons, a church planter and a suburban pastor believe.
Lithuanian Baptist leader describes his ministry during a stateside visit
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The president of the Baptist Union of Lithuania spent Aug. 18-25 in mid-Missouri to explore partnership projects, to share the story of Lithuanian Baptists and
Exactly WHAT is discipleship?
Ask the average Baptist on the street - or the average Christian - to define discipleship and you'll likely get a variety of answers.
The state of discipleship
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MBC begins making plans for former Windermere property
The Missouri Baptist Convention plans to have a strategy in place by April 2015 for use of land that once belonged to Windermere Baptist Conference Center. MBC Executive Board members recently authorized the convention president to appoint a taskforce to study possibilities.
Obamacare changing the way faith-based hospitals deliver care
Like it or not, the Affordable Care Act — a.k.a. Obamacare — is now the law. Faith-based healthcare providers say it's changing the way hospitals view patient care.
Facility must balance aesthetics, function
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Flexible or multi-use spaces and renovation of older facilities are current trends in church architecture that likely will continue for a while.
Ross Williams, a Springfield, Mo.-based architect, believes the