Check out Sheri Towery and Karly Drake’s 2010 mission report.

Check out Misty Frost’s Mission Arlington 2010 mission report.

Divorce shatters our world of predictability…gone is routine, a relationship, and that which is familiar. Forest Park’s Divorce Recovery Workshops provide the healing it takes to cope with what has happened by learning how to regain self-esteem, establish trust once again, and learn new relationship building skills.

Will you pray for the folks that are registered for the September/October Divorce Recovery Workshop? Invite anyone anyone you know that has been through a divorce (no matter how long ago), is currently going through a divorce, or contemplating divorce to attend the workshop. Please pray specifically that they will find the healing, comfort, and love that only God can offer in such a painful time.

Check out Matthew Dumm’s Brazil 2010 mission report.

Thanks for all your help to make this year’s Back to School Clothing Giveaway at the Joplin Campus a huge success! We helped over 1,400 people from over 370 families. Over 70 people received a free haircut. The Gideons gave out 765 New Testaments. Over 500 backpacks were given away with the majority of them containing school supplies. We had a ton of volunteers that helped throughout the week and today.

God has done it again!  For the seventh consecutive year, we have baptized more than 100 precious people in the “church year” (runs September 1, through August 31). Only two other churches in our state convention share this blessing with us!

Do you realize what a big deal that is? These are people with souls, people with an eternal destiny, people who matter to God so much He sent His Son to die an excruciating death for them; and God used YOU, your prayers, your giving, your ministries to touch them. Here is what one of them wrote to me:

I wasn’t raised in a church. My family was “Christian,” but their faith was not very sturdy. But in this…

Whatever the phrase, “the dog-days of summer” means, it appears we are in the middle of them. Wow! Hasn’t it been warm! But, God truly is good, as He has provided the rains just when we needed them. Despite the heat, the moisture has been there. He always knows just what we need. Many times, before we know.

Those of you that have made a commitment to give to “Generations” are so encouraging to others as you remain faithful in your giving. You continue to be a blessing with your support of the campaign that began over 1½ years ago. Yes, we are over halfway through the original three-year commitment of “Generations.” Much has already been accomplished with the…

Wow, it’s hard to believe that our last full day in Haiti is over. It was a difficult day, but ended great. One of the men that was operated on yesterday had some bad swelling and had trouble with recovery. All day we were concerned that he would have to be opened back up. Thankfully, as the day wore on, he seemed to improve so they didn’t have to go back in.

This morning, a young man came in with a very swollen leg. The doctors believed it was a cyst and proceeded to operate in order to drain the cyst. During the procedure they discovered the cyst was full of blood and the bone appeared to be deteriorated. The…