By Martha Aligaz and Melete Ghile James 1:27 (NIV) “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” This is a story of six, which later became seven, children ranging in age from [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions Creating a culture of evangelism in your church was the theme of this year’s spring semi-annual meeting. Dr. Gary Kendall shared an exciting evangelism tool for mobilizing your members to live missionally in their neighborhoods called Bless Every Home. An especially nice feature of this ministry is that there [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions In last month’s newsletter, we started the conversation about pastors, or anyone for that matter, preparing for retirement. Since not all pastors plan to retire, we said the article could be titled, “Are You Living and Planning Today in Such a Way that is Preparing You Financially for the [...]
I heard the comment recently that someone measured the distance Paul traveled by land and sea on his missionary journeys and came up with around 10,000 miles he covered preaching the gospel and starting churches. But the next comment is what grabbed me; in those 10,000 miles of travel, we never read a single verse [...]
Are You Prepared for Retirement, Pastor? (Part 1) Gregg Boll: Director of Missions If you think this question is none of my business, then skip to the next article. If you think retirement is an unbiblical concept and you intend to work as many years as your health will allow, you should still read this. [...]
By Gregg Boll In this first article I want to address cooperation and unity around the gospel. In the next newsletter (Part 2) I plan to share some of the decisions made during this year’s SBC Annual Meeting and the impact upon faith and practice in our churches. Every year in June, representatives we call [...]
Associate Director’s Report By Gregg Boll Pastors Retiring and the SBC’s Leadership Crisis I want to congratulate and express my deepest appreciation for several of our BR-KC pastors who have retired in the last few years after long, faithful pastorates. Forgive me if I leave anyone out, but here is the list of retiring pastors [...]
Ministering to Newcomers Thousands of people coming from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Colombia have come to the United States in the last ten months. Some of those people have come to the Kansas City area. They have left their country for distinct reasons; some were being persecuted for the dictators of their own countries, others [...]
Question number one. “How and when did your ministry begin? “ During the crippling recession of 1981-82, I found myself out of employment. This long season of struggle to provide for my family became a great tool in Gods hand. It forced my wife, Paula, and I into a season of intense soul searching. We [...]
Written by Brian Koonce, reprinted with permission by The Pathway. During their 188th annual meeting at the St. Charles Convention Center here, Oct. 24-25, messengers of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) elected four new MBC officers. Coming from 470 Missouri Baptist churches across the state, 1,035 messengers and 226 guests attended the two-day meeting. The [...]
