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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.

Louisenie “Dezo” Desauguste is a second-year student at Central Baptist Theological Seminary. Haiti is her homeland and where her heart finds home.

Once described as the London of the American West, St. Louis has more recently been crowned a city of hope and hurt.

Through entrepreneurial action, Southwest Baptist University’s Enactus team is fulfilling the university’s mission to be a “Christ-centered, caring academic community preparing students to be servant leaders in a global society.”

What began as a vision given to a young Baptist pastor and his wife more than a century ago has grown into a vibrant ministry with campuses across Missouri and ministry connections around the world.

Recalling examples from his own life, Paul Gibson,  early on realized that “we were running against” other denominations and sometimes even other Baptists, he told Fall Adult Retreat attendees Oct. 7.

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Heartland installed new coordinator Jeff Langford and celebrated the 25th anniversary of national CBF during its fall assembly Oct. 21 at First Baptist Church of Jefferson City, Mo.

More than 40 former International Mission Board journeymen who were appointed in the second year of the two-year overseas missions program celebrated the 50th anniversary of their commissioning Oct. 13-16 at the International Learning Center in Rockville, Va.