Compassion and leadership – these two words don’t often go together in our post-modern culture. There is a belief that we must be strong and tough to be effective and “softness” is often seen as a sign of weakness. This thinking is actually out of alignment with my lived experiences as a leader and goes [...]
On Sunday, March 3, 1912, thirty people came together to charter Mount Washington Baptist Church, electing D. W. Riggs to serve as pastor, meeting above the Mount Washington State Bank on Wilson Road, in Independence. Mount Washington quickly grew to one of the largest congregations in the Independence community, at one time registering nearly one [...]
Grace Fellowship started in the home of Roger and Mary Jo Freeman in December, 2007 with a handful of people. Our mission statement comes from Matthew 28:18-20, to reach people with the Gospel and grow them into faithful followers of Jesus. Grace spent four years meeting at the YMCA in Independence; then the next five [...]
Get to know Faith Baptist of Lee's Summit - one of our newest member churches! Faith Baptist Church was started in 1955 as Ridgewood Baptist Church and later was changed to Faith Baptist Church in 1967. It was founded by Pastor Robert Glover who started the church and was the pastor for over 40 years. [...]
It’s always amazing to watch the Lord work. The Credentials Committee had that privilege recently when they met to interview two churches desiring membership into the Association. We watched the Lord bring people together that ordinarily would never have met. Pastor Anthony Mondaine from Restoration Life Church met with the committee and brought his wife, [...]
In September of 2018, we found ourselves at a crossroads at Immanuel Baptist Church. Even though our building sits on a busy major thoroughfare in Independence, MO, we had continued to see numbers dwindle on Sundays and our connection to our community grow ever more distant. The leadership team found themselves in the unenviable role [...]
About a year ago Norfleet Baptist Church received a call from a young mother from a nearby neighborhood... She was looking for a place that could host her youngest daughter’s first birthday party. It was going to be a grand party since the little girl was a testament to the power of prayer. There was [...]
HARRISONVILLE, MO--When Ernie Cecil became pastor of Antioch Southern Baptist Church, a gallon of gasoline sold for $1.05. At Antioch, Pastor Ernie (as he is known by his congregation) has performed 251 baptisms and 158 funerals. Furthermore, he has joined 94 couples in matrimony, including the oldest couple to be married in Missouri history. On [...]
by Alan Shelby, Lead Pastor; edited by Britney Hamm. Originally published in the February 2018 edition of our Missions & Ministry Newsletter. They had an $11,000 monthly mortgage on the building they had renovated three years before and a $5000 payment on the old property across I-70. Yet less than 100 active members filled their [...]
