By Janis Mansker Many years ago, I was a missionary journeyman in Africa. When my pastor, Scott Harrison, invited me to help check out a possible mission project in Kenya, I was ready to go. The children we saw are happy, yet they live
Word&Way focuses on the number 10 this year — celebrating the news journal's 110th year of ministry to Baptists in Missouri and Bill Webb's 10th year as its editor. Born in 1896 because founder Sanford M. Brown felt that certain theological and denominational views were
Leslie Limbaugh, minister of students and communication at Third Baptist Church, St. Louis, will chair a task force that will help the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship take a fresh look at developing ministries to college students.Limbaugh is a former campus minister with the Missouri Baptist Convention,
A glance around the office of the Cole County sheriff will reveal what most folks expect: citations, diplomas, family photos and work piles.
But Sheriff Greg
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in
By Raymond R. Kenison, Missouri Baptist Children's Home President"Serving God by helping children, youth and families."The mission statement of Missouri Baptist Children's Home is the foundation on which we build our ministry and try to affect the lives of as many children and families as
We are reminded with the recent stories from the Hurricane Katrina disaster that the spiritual and physical need of people everywhere is our priority. The Missouri Baptist Foundation is compelled to fulfill our mission along with the responsibility commissioned by Christ to bring His love
By Vicki Brown, Word&Way News WriterHow many individuals would walk away from careers with the potential for wild acclaim and big bucks to take up ministry's relative obscurity and "church-mouse" economics?Bob and Margaret Woolley did.An avid baseball player, Woolley was approached twice by the St.
By Bill Webb, Word&Way EditorThe program is called Swords Into Plowshares -- and it is no accident that the name has a decidedly agricultural sound to it. It is a program where limited investments in farm animals, farm implements and seeds continues to make a
Jefferson City -- Messengers to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Missouri general assembly at First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, approved a $276,760 ministry 2005-2006 budget during a breakfast business meeting on April 23.The budget is broken down into the following areas: Christians in community, $600;