Baptist

CBF Heartland Coordinating Council members approved a memorandum of understanding with CBF Global, accepted its nominating committee's report and discussed upcoming events at their March 14 meeting.

Churchnet (the Baptist General Convention of Missouri) rolled out its strategic plan for the next five years at its March 6 directors’ session — a plan that calls for focusing on missional approaches.

Members of Second Baptist Church in Lincoln, Neb., and First Baptist Church in Columbia, Mo., wanted to create space to meet congregational needs. In both cases, renovation of the existing facility opened possibilities and saved money.

The Missouri Baptist Convention will have to back away from its claim that it is entitled to govern the Missouri Baptist Foundation now rather than waiting for a higher court decision.

Circuit Court Judge Frank Conley ruled March 4 that a stay Cole County Senior Judge Byron Kinder had issued with his May 13, 2011, decision remains in effect until all appeals are exhausted.

You’ve had a heart attack or perhaps have been diagnosed with cancer. Family and friends have made a constant stream to your hospital bed. But as you lie there in that open-backed hospital gown, you are uncomfortable, depressed and vulnerable.

The Cross Makers of Seward, Neb., offer a simple symbol that brings comfort to the hurting, the ill, the dying and the bereaved — the cross.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Baptist Foundation plans to continue operating with its self-elected board pending clarification of an earlier circuit court ruling.

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. — One man died and two children remain hospitalized in Memphis, Tenn., following a fiery church van crash near Hayti, Mo., on Feb. 11. The group from Kinfolks Ridge Baptist Church was headed to a Southeast Missouri Baptist Association event.

Faith remains intact when believers focus on God rather than on circumstance, speakers emphasized at this year’s Missouri Baptist Convention evangelism conference Feb. 5-6. With the theme, "Furnace," the annual event was held at Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Springfield, Mo.