The Missouri Baptist Children's Home provides services to care for troubled children and youth and to help stabilize at-risk families. Through its Children and Family Ministries division, MBCH delivered 249,986 days of service in 2010 and saw 26 professions of faith among children and youth.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) – An international student ministry that partners with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has hired a staff member to spearhead a new initiative to help theologically moderate churches discover God’s calling for both clergy and laity.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (ABP) -- Prosecutors in California sought public help in identifying possible additional victims of a former youth pastor under arrest on a charge of sexual assault.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. (ABP) -- A former Virginia Baptist youth minister has been arrested on charges that he engaged in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl in his church.
Police in Northern Virginia’s Prince William County arrested Jason Bolton, 32, on July
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (ABP) -- A former American Baptist youth minister who entered and then withdrew a guilty plea of sending nude photos to a 15-year-old girl he was counseling has been convicted of sexual assault.
Youth at Kirkwood Baptist Church, St. Louis, held fundraising events to boost their mission trip budget fund. Then they headed to the group’s destination: their own city.
Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, high school seniors planned their last youth group mission trip based on need. Each year, associate pastor Kathy Pickett meets with the seniors to discern where to go on the summer mission trip.
Two Kansas City churches — Grace Point Baptist Church and Winnwood Baptist Church — recently teamed up for a joint mission trip to St. Louis.