May 2025 • Pathway
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A major renovation project is forcing the SBC Annual Meeting to move from Salt Lake City in 2027, according to the SBC Executive Committee. Messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting will be asked to allow the meeting to move to Indianapolis, the 2024 host city. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Baptist Secretaries and Administrative Assistants of Missouri (BSAAM) is set to hold its annual conference on Sept. 15-16, 2025, at the Baptist Building in Jefferson City. This year’s theme: Our Cups Runneth Over. “And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.” (2 Corinthians 9:8 CSB) Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Missouri has certainly experienced its share of violent weather this spring, keeping Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (MODR) volunteers on their toes. News sources report a record number of tornadoes striking the state in 2025. According to one meteorologist, there had been close to 90 tornadoes of various sizes just through May 20. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
So, what is truth? It’s not subjectively discovered by our preferences, feelings, or experiences. Truth isn’t even beliefs approved by culture. Genuine truth is the objective, absolute reality determined by God that holistically points to his great glory and name. As Jesus powerfully declared, “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” (John 8:32). Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Greg Mathias, who teaches global missions at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS), told Baptist Press that while in Jackson Square this past weekend, he likely walked past five fortune tellers and tarot card readers, common sights there. But according to Pew Research, many Christians in the U.S. are not just passing by such phenomena. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Texas lawmakers banned nondisclosure clauses in sexual abuse settlement agreements May 26, following Missouri’s passage of similar legislation weeks earlier. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
The Southern Baptist Convention and other defendants lost an appeal in a Tennessee district court but have appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court. The case, Preston Garner et. al. v. Southern Baptist Convention et. al., regards an inquiry made by the SBC Credentials Committee in the course of following up on a confidential report made to the SBC’s abuse hotline. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
International Mission Board trustees approved 65 fully funded missionaries for appointment during their May 21-22 meeting near Richmond, Virginia. The missionaries approved for appointment will be recognized during a Sending Celebration on Tuesday, June 10, at 10:08 a.m. CDT in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas. The event will be livestreamed on sbcannualmeeting.net. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
The U.S. House passed a budget bill early on May 22 to defund Planned Parenthood, end transgender interventions and help Christian nonprofits and families, all Southern Baptist-supported measures the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) supports this fiscal year. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
People are living in tents in the mountains of western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. Many were left homeless following floods and landslides resulting from Hurricane Helene last fall. So the First Baptist Church of Troy, Mo., decided to raise funds and buy a used RV travel trailer to give to a family there. The Twin Rivers Baptist Association offered funding to purchase a second trailer, and it has been sent down as well. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news ...| Pathway
On this Memorial Day, in the centennial year of the 1925 adoption of The Baptist Faith and Message (BFM), it is appropriate to remember a fallen soldier who left an overlooked legacy on the BFM's message: Captain Sanford Miller Brown, Jr. (1893-1918). Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
First in Fallujah, Iraq, then in Djibouti, Africa, and finally Mobile, Alabama, the Memorial Day Flag Relay (MDFR) has been bringing encouragement and healing to active-duty servicemen, veterans and their families for 20 years. ... It has also pointed the way to Christ. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
