Stories tagged with: missouri baptist convention

• Yeats: Mo. convention to return to original mission

  by Missouri Pathway Staff, posted Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

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  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (BP) -- Missouri Baptist Convention messengers moved forward during their 181st annual meeting in the restructuring of the convention's staff and in defending religious liberty.

  A total of 1,022 messengers and 236 guests from 440 churches met Oct. 26-28 at Springfield's University Plaza and Expo Center, where MBC Executive Director John Yeats set forth a vision of the convention's future by renewing its original mission to "make disciples, multiply churches, and develop leaders."

  Yeats urged Missouri Baptists to embrace a sense of urgency as they engage a culture desperately in need of the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ. Read More

• Mo. convention receives $5M partial settlement

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, January 07, 2015 (9 years ago)

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP) -- The Missouri Baptist Convention has received a $5 million partial settlement in its legal efforts to restore the Missouri Baptist Foundation as an entity accountable to the convention. Read More

• Ferguson tensions prompt First Baptist to action

  by Ben Hawkins/Missouri Pathway, posted Monday, December 01, 2014 (9 years ago)

  FERGUSON, Mo. (BP) -- Stoney Shaw, pastor of First Baptist Church in Ferguson, Mo., never imagined that protestors would wreak so much havoc after a grand jury reported their decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of 18-year-old African American Michael Brown. Read More

• Mo. Baptists challenge attorney general

  by Staff/Missouri Pathway , posted Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (9 years ago)

  OSAGE BEACH (BP) -- Messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting, Oct. 27-29, defended the biblical view of marriage and challenged Attorney General Chris Koster to fulfill his oath of office by defending Missouri's constitution. Read More

• Mo. Baptists take stand on biblical marriage

  by Benjamin Hawkins/Missouri Pathway, posted Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

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  OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (BP) -- Missouri Baptist Convention messengers stood together during their 180th annual meeting to defend the biblical view of marriage and oppose the modern-day slavery of sex-trafficking. Read More

• Mo. Baptists join battle over sign restrictions

  by Staff/Missouri Pathway , posted Friday, September 26, 2014 (9 years ago)

  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) -- The Missouri Baptist Convention has filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in joining other religious groups asking for a sign -- that religious freedom trumps local sign codes which discriminate against churches and church plants. Read More