I enjoyed peaching the last two Sundays in October at Bethany and appreciate the good folks there for their support over the years. As you can read in their report they have called Bro. Nick Dunn and he plans to move on the fild soon. We lost a good friend in the Lord’s work in Missouri when Bro. Ronald Pierce was called home unexpectedly. Please remember his wife Roberta, his family, and his church family (Temple, Belgrade) in their loss. Bro. Ronald was truly a pastor’s friend and he and his wife were great hosts to visiting preachers when given the opportunity. I enjoyed the State Association meeting in Sikeston
this past month and thank you for reelecting me as Assistant Missions Director and also Editor of the Missouri Missionary Baptist paper.
Bethel Missionary Baptist Church welcomed the messengers of the churches of the BMA of Missouri and treated everyone with kindness and love. They also fed us a delicious meal. You can read about the meeting starting on page one in this issue but I want to call attention to one action the Missionary Committee took that can be a blessing to all our churches in the state.
Bro. Ben Kingston was elected to plan a “Renewal Retreat” for the pastors and staf members of BMA of Missouri Churches. The entire schedule for this time will be built around renewal of the Association. There will be no charge to attend. In the month of November, our churches will be sent some possible dates for this retreat and the date selected by most respondents will be the date set for the meeting. It is VERY important that each church respond so we can set the date that the most can and
will attend.
Please do your best to attend and let’s work at renewal our fellowship and cooperation and help each other in the ministry of the Word. We need to be planting new works for the Lord, but we also need to strengthen what we already have. We are all very busy and it is easy to skip these times that can benefit our ministries and that is exactly what Satan wants us to do! Let’s
determine to not let this happen when this meeting takes place. Let’s strengthen one another as God wants us to.
Please pray for our work in Missouri that we will know where God wants us to start a new work when He gives us someone to work it. Thank you for your support and prayers as we work for the Lord.
