In the early 2000s, I met Ben Hess at the Denny’s restaurant next to Interstate 44 in Eureka. For the previous few months, my wife Heidi and I had been wrestling with the call to plant a church in this St. Louis suburb. From that meeting, and for multiple years after we planted the church, Ben, for us, was the face of the Cooperative Program. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.
