Joseph Hazen’s phone rang, and he answered to hear the voice of his North African friend. Hazen, an International Mission Board missionary, and his friend have served together for almost 20 years in a large European city, sharing the gospel on the bustling streets with people from all walks of life. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Missouri Baptist University is celebrating record-breaking enrollment this fall, welcoming the largest freshman class in its history. The milestone marks a nearly 10 percent increase over the University’s previous freshman class high set in 2022. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Midwestern Seminary inaugurated a new academic year during Fall Convocation on August 26 with a sermon from President Jason Allen. In addition to Allen’s message, the school welcomed three newly elected faculty members and recognized six new members of the Board of Trustees. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Hannibal-LaGrange University is pleased to announce its annual Grow Week, a series of special chapel services and events designed to encourage spiritual growth in the campus community. This year’s featured speaker is Daniel Ritchie, evangelist and Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention, who has shared the hope of Christ with audiences across the nation. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
A Minnesota law that banned certain Christian colleges from a program that enrolls high-schoolers in tuition-free college credit courses is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Now, we turn our attention to something just as important but often overlooked: the documents that protect you while you're still alive, especially when you can't speak for yourself. These are not just paperwork to file away; they are real safeguards for your dignity, your peace of mind, and your loved ones' ability to help you when it counts. Whether from a fall, illness, stroke, dementia, or simply getting older, many people go through a time when they cannot speak or act for themselves. Wi...| Pathway
Resolutions for this year’s MBC Annual Meeting must be submitted in writing to the Committee on Resolutions at least sixty (60) days prior to the first session of the annual meeting, which means the deadline of Aug. 28 is fast approaching. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Gene Smith, administrative pastor at First Baptist Church, De Soto, and his wife Kristi recently led a missions trip to La Romana, Dominican Republic. They and 12 individuals from their church partnered with Pastor Savenít Polo of Maranatha Baptist Church and other volunteers in La Romana to organize an eyeglass clinic, which was open, June 21–28. The team went out to two different “bateyes,” impoverished villages where sugar cane workers live. On this trip, they gave out 589 pairs of ...| Pathway
In Kelsey’s first month of service at the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home (MBCH), she met a client who shared a story of relapse, shame, and regret. Kelsey shared Jesus at the Holy Spirit’s prompting. Through the power of the gospel, the client faced reality and took responsibility for her situation. The work of the MBCH is among more than two dozen ministries supported by the Missouri Missions Offering (MMO). The MMO Eight Days of Prayer are Sept. 7-14. Read the full story from The Pa...| Pathway
Before Youth Minister Jimmy Bagwell and his family moved to Memphis, Mo., three years ago, he was told that the cows in the town outnumbered people ten to one. (With a population of about 1,700 people, you can do the math.) But beyond the hooves and hayfields, the heart of this rural town beats for community—a community that Bagwell cherishes, but even more so, by First Baptist Church (FBC) of Memphis. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
A Muslim convert who said he saw a vision of Christ while napping at a Ugandan mosque is recovering after his relatives beat him and destroyed his home, Morning Star News reported. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Are you worried finding your next meal will be a struggle? Know someone who is? If food insecurity doesn’t affect you, it probably affects someone you know. International Mission Board (IMB) President Paul Chitwood says the global hunger crisis is the worst it has been in four decades. “Two billion people around the world today live on a single (daily) meal,” he told Baptist Press. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
I was 16 the first time I heard “Mr. Crowley.” He felt untouchable. Immortal. A man who drank from the shadows and laughed. But on July 23, Ozzy died. And I need to talk to you about that. Not about music. Not about controversy. Not even about Ozzy himself, really. I need to talk to you about what happens when someone dies. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Twenty years ago, Judd and Debbie McKinnon packed 26 suitcases – two of which were filled with LEGO bricks – and brought their 12- and 10-year-old children to make themselves at home in Central Asia. Missionaries with the International Mission Board, the McKinnons have lived in the same city their entire career, a rare blessing for missionaries. At the time of sharing their story, they were waiting to see if God would open the door for them to return to their home in Central Asia. Read th...| Pathway
More than 1,600 students gathered across three Missouri Super Summer camps this June, making 2025 the largest year in the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) camp’s recent history and resulting in dozens of spiritual decisions. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
The Johnson Amendment, as it formerly restricted political comments from the pulpit, is null and void, according to a July 7th binding consent judgment. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
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.| Pathway
With the war in its fourth year, Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary has long resumed its educational outreach, graduating a class of 700 students in June, the largest in its 25-year history, President Yaroslav Pyzh said in a video. UBTS awarded 171 undergraduate level degrees, 30 graduate level degrees, and 388 certificates, he told Baptist Press, with remaining graduates receiving certificates from the Institute of Leadership and Coaching. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri ...| Pathway
The pastor search committee at Bellevue Baptist Church has unanimously recommended that Ben Mandrell, CEO of Lifeway Christian Resources become the church’s next senior pastor. Mandrell will preach in view of a call on July 13. The congregation will vote on the committee’s choice after a 10 a.m. service. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
When Johnie and Dee Alden moved to Maryville, Mo., to be closer to family, including grandchildren, they wanted to serve in a mission team. They soon found Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (MODR) and have hit the ground running. “We came across the Disaster Relief team and watched the videos. It touched my wife and me." Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
David Englehart, the campus director of New Mexico State University’s Christian Challenge, was moved with emotion as he recalled a quiet, but stunning moment in his life some 30 years earlier during a trip to Central Asia. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Resolutions must be submitted in writing to the Committee on Resolutions at least 60 days prior to the first session of the annual meeting. Persons submitting resolutions must certify that they are messengers. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
What does mature but childlike faith look like? How can we be mature enough and also childlike enough to “walk by faith,” like Paul references in 2 Corinthians 5:7? Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
As the echoes of Fourth of July fireworks fade and we turn our attention to the week ahead, Southern Baptists also will take a moment to celebrate a key freedom that Americans have long enjoyed and that Baptists have continually sought to defend. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
For distributing the Bible and sharing the Gospel in the Soviet Union, Aleksei Kharlamov’s great-grandfather was sent to Siberia and never heard from again. His grandfather and father both were persecuted for being Baptist pastors. Growing up in post-Soviet Moscow, Kharlamov was called a cult member for being a Baptist. That family history enhances his love of America’s religious liberty. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Compared to a decade ago, pastors have less training in counseling but are more hesitant to refer church members to professionals. A recent Lifeway Research study examining the rate at which evangelical and Black Protestant pastors leave the ministry also asked pastors about their experience with counseling, both in their ministry preparation and practice. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
D’vora was rushing her two children to the home of her father Avi Mizrachi, founding pastor of Adonai Roi Congregation in Tel Aviv, when overhead missiles from Iran forced her to seek cover. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Midwestern Seminary celebrated the June 9 release of three new installments in the 'Big Thoughts for Little Thinkers' children’s book series by Joe M. Allen III, assistant professor of missions. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
“While we celebrate all God is allowing us to be a part of together with one another and with Him, we cannot ignore the sobering reality that every day 166,338 people enter eternity, separated from Christ forever," IMB President Paul Chitwood told Southern Baptist Convention messengers in Dallas, June 11. The number is not just a statistic, he noted. “These are people – each created in God’s image – whose life can be transformed by the gospel if they have the opportunity to hear. Th...| Pathway
When a father is involved, outcomes improve. For this reason, The LIGHT House happily engages active fathers in our Home-Based Pregnancy Services and Community Outreach Programs. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Iorg’s message addressed several issues also covered in the previous day’s Executive Committee meeting. Those included ongoing steps toward sexual abuse prevention and response, litigation and budget issues and the SBC’s Business and Financial Plan. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Clint Pressley has been reelected SBC president and will begin his term with two newly elected officers and two officers reelected during the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Southern Baptists united to celebrate 58 newly appointed International Mission Board (IMB) missionaries, during the June 10 opening session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas. Church messengers watched as missionaries took the stage to share their calling and thank those who are supporting their Great Commission task. One Missouri Baptist couple, Brad and Carrie from Second Baptist Church, were among the new missionaries. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri...| Pathway
It is possible to be well-known and desperately lonely, Sheila Walsh told a group of 2,000 women at the sold-out Ministers’ Wives Luncheon June 10 at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Stories of transformation and the importance of global outreach highlighted the International Mission Board dinner, June 9, at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Dallas. Close to 2,000 people attended the event that commemorated a milestone for the Journeyman program and honored many who have supported the IMB. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Hispanic Baptists from across the country gathered June 9 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas for a full day of training, encouragement and spiritual growth as part of the Hispanic Celebration preceding the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
When the Larson family’s son, Alaska, began struggling with his eyesight, they initially thought he would need glasses. Little did they know that he was in the early stages of a terminal genetic condition. Sam and Sydney Larson are planting a church in rural Hickman, Nebraska, and this year theirs became the latest family to be blessed during the NAMB Luncheon on June 9 hosted by the North American Mission Board (NAMB) ahead of the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas. Read ...| Pathway
“Worth Following” was the theme around which pastors gathered June 8 for the opening session of the SBC Pastors’ Conference in Dallas. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
If you or a loved one have ever needed the services of long-term care, you are familiar with the often mind-numbing process of finding the right answer to meet your needs. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) executive board members meeting here, March 3-4, approved 2026 goals for statewide offerings, recommended an amendment to the MBC Nominating Committee’s rules and procedures, and created a Credentials Committee Guidelines Task Force. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
To stand for truth and share Christ with people who embrace counterfeit forms of Christianity is a challenge. Colten Wright, pastor of Linn Creek Baptist Church and a member of the Missouri Baptist Apologetics Network, relishes this challenge as he shares the gospel with people in his Lake of the Ozarks community. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
When I’m searching for an unengaged, unreached people group, I ask the Holy Spirit to show me someone open to the Gospel. One day, that simple prayer led me to the water’s edge, where an old man fished from strings tied to his hand. He asked why I was there. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Executive Board members meeting here, Aug. 26-27, approved the convention’s 2025 spending plan and recommended that MBC messengers gathered for their annual meeting in October take a special offering to support a Christian school in St. Louis. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
“It will take every pastor actively shepherding the 400,000-plus Missouri Baptists to engage in our process to protect babies. It will take every one of us to keep Missouri a pro-life state for His glory, our good and their flourishing.” Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
In a lawsuit filed, Aug. 22, on behalf of state lawmakers and concerned individuals, Thomas More Society attorneys are challenging the inclusion of pro-abortion Amendment 3 on Missouri's ballot, Nov. 5. The filing alleges that the initiative petition was erroneously certified because it runs afoul of the Missouri Constitution and state statutes. Read the full story from The Pathway, Missouri Baptists' news source.| Pathway
“Don’t feel sorry for me,” Ernest Easley writes in a new book. A feeding tube is how he gets nourishment. He struggles to speak. Diagnosed with malignant throat cancer in 1998, severe side effects from 44 radiation treatments still afflict the longtime pastor.| Pathway
