Midwestern trustees to pull funds from Missouri Baptist Foundation
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary trustees voted unanimously March 10 to remove about $877,000 in funds from the Missouri Baptist Foundation. The funds will be invested through the Baptist Foundation of Oklahoma.
Baptist Center’s ministry brings Christ to inner-city Omaha, Indian reservations
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| Bible club message Ron Goombi shares the gospel during a Bible club at the Winnebago Indian Reservation near Sioux City, Iowa. Goombi, who serves as director of the Omaha Baptist Center, and his family conduct regular ministries on reservations. Photo by Gibbs Frazeur |
When ‘Habla Espanol?’ is asked, he links patients & doctors
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP)--Spanish-speaking patients at the University of Kansas (KU) Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., are glad to see Jason Schoff. Because when Schoff arrives, communication can begin.
Her abortion, a lifelong problem, also has defined her ministry
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Sedated and lying on a table, a scared -- but determined -- 19-year-old girl heard the roar of the vacuum-like machine begin. She felt the scraping inside her body. They lied. It hurt.
Amid 20-year battle with lupus, she searched the Scriptures
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| Faith despite lupus Jennie Martin, who has lived with the effects of lupus for 20 years, works part-time as a medical social worker for the Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center in Kansas City, Mo., where she assists medically underserved people in receiving medicine and equipment. Photo by Stacey Hamby |
Jennie Steele Martin laid in utter pain and panic for hours until her mother got up to get ready for work. Only then, did she hear her daughter's pleas.
Martin, then an energetic 19-year-old student at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo., was home in Nevada, Mo., in the summer of 1983 when she mysteriously became temporarily paralyzed. Earlier that year, she had experienced stiff joints, back pain and chronic fatigue -- but she had not seen a doctor.
4 brothers receive award for contribution to Afghan children
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Four brothers received an award from the Missouri Baptist Foundation for their efforts in raising $130 to send to the America's Fund for Afghan Children. The Castillo boys -- Joshua, 11, Stephen, 9, Seth, 8, and James, 6 -- heeded President Bush's call last year for American children to donate $1 to help the children of Afghanistan. But they took it one step further.
Midwestern student elected as Mo. state representative
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--A student at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was elected Nov. 5 to the Missouri House of Representatives.
Theological journal, capital campaign receive Midwestern trustees’ approval
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary plans to launch a Midwestern Journal of Theology in spring 2003, with trustees approving the undertaking during their Oct. 21-22 meeting in Kansas City, Mo.
N.Y. association’s Dean to lead ‘Pray New York’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--David Dean, who has been the executive director of missions for the Metropolitan New York Baptist Association for 12 years, will step down from those duties next year to begin a new assignment for the association -- minister-at-large.
NYC director of missions addresses 9-11 tribute
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--He cannot commute to work anymore without thinking about it.
