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When the word “chaplain” pops up, many people may think of a pastor serving alongside military soldiers, at a hospital or prison.

Yet, chaplains can be found on sports sidelines, on university campuses, in police and fire stations, in business offices or even in a neighborhood.

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Heartland recognized three CBF supporters at a Celebration of Excellence dinner April 21 in downtown Liberty, Mo.

Word & Way Editor Bill Webb won awards in competitions sponsored by the Baptist Communicators Association and Associated Church Press this spring, and the magazine’s regular freelancer Brian Kaylor was recognized by ACP and by The Religious Communicators Council.

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo., hosted the Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting of Missouri Woman’s Missionary Union April 8-9.

Churchnet — also known as the Baptist General Convention of Missouri — elected officers, heard updates on its partnership with Guatemala, recognized retiring staff and trustees completing their service, among other business, during its annual gathering April 15-16 at First Baptist Church of Lee’s Summit, Mo.

Nearly 100 years after the end of the Missouri Plan of dual alignment, some Baptists today hope to see more of the spirit of Baptist cooperation. Jerry Cain, chancellor of Judson University (an American Baptist school in Illinois), loves the history of the Missouri Plan and views it as an inspiring model for futire Baptist work.

When the nation divided during the Civil War, Missouri found itself tugged in both directions as a ‘border state.’  In the war's aftermath, Baptists in Missouri experimented with a unique model of dual alignment.

Rev. Charles Chester Stigers, 98, died Feb. 28 at Kansas City Hospice House.

Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo., will close on Wednesday, March 30, at noon so that students and employees can attend a celebration of life service for First Lady Judy Taylor, who died March 26 in Bolivar at the age of 69.

For the past 15 years, Alan Bean has found himself involved in some of the biggest criminal justice controversies in Texas and Louisiana.