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The Missouri Baptist Convention filed motions on Dec. 2 asking the Circuit Court of Cole County to issue a ruling for the MBC in lawsuits against The Baptist Home and Missouri Baptist University.

“Memories, Christmas memories,” Frank Sinatra’s baritone voice declared. “They’re the sweetest ones I know.”

For former missionaries now back in the United States, those memories often include Christmases quite different from what they experience today.

As missionaries adjust to life in a new country, many challenges emerge: building relationships, perhaps learning a new language and learning cultural traditions. Even Christmas can bring new experiences.

David O. Moore, 95, former chair of the religion department at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., died Oct. 28.

As voters in Missouri chose a new slate of statewide elected officials on Nov. 8, they elected a Baptist layman for the state’s second highest office.

The Word & Way Board of Trustees unanimously elected Brian Kaylor as editor and president of Word & Way during their annual meeting on Nov. 15.

Missouri Baptist Children’s Home works to find or develop “forever families” for children in Missouri.

Through the first three quarters of 2016, more than 360 children have achieved “permanency” through the work of MBCH. This is a life-changing experience for the children and the family.

The whistles have silenced. The equipment has been stored away. The sounds of laughter and balls bouncing have all come to a hush.

Sports Crusader’s Summer 2016 has come to a close, but the eternal investment is still resounding as children and adults from all over the nation and world have experienced Jesus in a refreshing way.

With a couple of felonies and a troubled history behind him, Wayne Gilliland was not the average Hannibal-LaGrange University applicant when he applied in 2012.

Windermere Baptist Conference Center exists to provide a Christian setting for life change. One particular area of life change is, of course – salvation.