The Pathway

The Pathway is a bi-weekly publication from the Missouri Baptist Convention that aims to highlight events impacting Baptists in Missouri, as well as the Southern Baptist Convention and evangelical Christians across the globe. The Online Pathway serves as a swift source for updates and breaking news for MBC churches. The content will feature reports on the happenings within Missouri Baptist churches, decisions made by the MBC Executive Board and its committees, initiatives from the MBC Executive Board staff, and activities of MBC-affiliated agencies and institutions. This journal is designed to encourage Kingdom growth and foster unity within the MBC community.

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Supreme Court instructs New York to uphold religious liberty

1 week ago | mbcpathway.com | Laura Erlanson

WASHINGTON (BP) – The Supreme Court has ordered New York courts to reconsider some of their previous decisions in light of the High Court’s ruling in the Wisconsin Catholic Charities case earlier this month. In that case – Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v.
Barrett Duke retires as Montana exec, search team begins work

3 weeks ago | mbcpathway.com | Diana Chandler

EDITOR’S NOTE: For several years, the Missouri Baptist Convention has had a missions partnership with the Montana Southern Baptist Convention. BILLINGS, Mont. (BP) – Barrett Duke has retired as executive director of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention (MTSBC) after more than eight years in the post, having served since January 2017. He has worked on a contract basis since May 15, he told Baptist Press, allowing a newly formed search committee to find a new leader.
Super Summer registration up as 2025 camp season approaches

3 weeks ago | mbcpathway.com | Dan Steinbeck

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Convention is offering a third week of camp for students this summer, after seeing growth in its Super Summer program in previous years. In 2025, the first camp at Hannibal-LaGrange University is set for June 9-13. The second and third weeks, both at Southwest Baptist University, are set for June 16-20 and 23-27. “I took over the leadership in 2023, and we had over 600 people.
BSAAM Conference to be held at Baptist building in Jefferson City, Sept. 15-16

1 month ago | mbcpathway.com | Jennifer Adams

JEFFERSON CITY – Baptist Secretaries and Administrative Assistants of Missouri (BSAAM) is set to hold its annual conference on Sept. 15-16, 2025, at the Baptist Building in Jefferson City. This year’s theme: Our Cups Runneth Over.
SBC appeals defamation case to Tennessee Supreme Court

1 month ago | mbcpathway.com | Laura Erlanson

NASHVILLE (BP) – The Southern Baptist Convention and other defendants lost an appeal in a Tennessee district court but have appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court. The case, Preston Garner et. al. v. Southern Baptist Convention et. al., regards an inquiry made by the SBC Credentials Committee in the course of following up on a confidential report made to the SBC’s abuse hotline.
House-passed budget bill defunds Planned Parenthood, affirms many Southern Baptist aims

1 month ago | mbcpathway.com | Diana Chandler

WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. House passed a budget bill early today (May 22) to defund Planned Parenthood, end transgender interventions and help Christian nonprofits and families, all Southern Baptist-supported measures the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) supports this fiscal year.
Twin Rivers Association, FBC Troy donate RV trailers to families affected by Hurricane Helene

1 month ago | mbcpathway.com | Richard Nations

EAST ALARKA, NC – People are living in tents in the mountains of western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.Following floods and landslides as a result of Hurricane Helene last fall and then wildfires sweeping across the mountains this spring, a lot of people are homeless. Sometimes even the land where their homes once stood was washed away or slid downhill into the deep ravines of a mountain river.
Q&A: Africa is not reached with the gospel

1 month ago | mbcpathway.com | Sue Sprenkle

Africa has an urgent need for laborers to share the gospel. The image among Christian circles often portrays this area as mostly evangelical and reached. But according to International Mission Board missionary Josh Rivers, that’s not really the case. “Senegal is less evangelical than Iran,” Rivers, who has worked as a missionary in West Africa for more than 20 years, emphasized about a country steeped in Islam.
Multiple fellowship groups plan Dallas gatherings

1 month ago | mbcpathway.com | Karen L. Willoughby

DALLAS – Several groups affiliated with Southern Baptists plan to meet concurrent with the June 8-11 SBC annual meeting at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. It’s a convenient time to meet, saving money for participants by not having a separate meeting elsewhere, and it’s a great time to mix and mingle – and network – with the most involved (since they attend the SBC annual meeting) Southern Baptists from across the nation.
A pocket full of thanks

1 month ago | mbcpathway.com | Rhonda Rhea

Why is it when someone compliments me on what I’m wearing, I’m uncontrollably compelled to offer at least one piece of trivia about it? “Thanks, I found it on clearance for $14.99 at that little shop on Main.” “Thanks, it’s got pockets!” “Thanks, I almost didn’t wear it because it’s dry-clean-only and I want pizza.”No one wants those details. It was a compliment, not a summons to testify in federal court. Yet I’m bound by some weird, irresistible law of the compliment/trivia exchange. Why?