John Hiskey, former 18-wheeler truck driver who, with his wife Rachel, began taking mission trips to Guinea Bissau in West Africa, one of the poorest nations in the world.  This led to their call to be career missionaries there.  In the move of God in GB, more villages began requesting pastors to be sent to them than there were native pastors to be … [Read more...]

Sharon and her husband Mike Cordner experienced a growing hunger to surrender everything to Jesus and serve Him completely. In the process they discovered Pastors John Mulinde of Uganda and Mark Daniel of Orlando of the World Trumpet Mission (www.wtmamerica.com). John Mulinde had for years, with others, had intently sought spiritual … [Read more...]

In a humorous beginning of the interview, Jennifer O’Neill was asked “ … a burning question: What is it like to costar with John Wayne?” For that is what she did at age 21 in the movie Rio Lobo when “Duke” Wayne was winding down her career. www.jenniferoneill.com reveals that she had experienced all the fame one could hope for in a lifetime, and … [Read more...]

Dave and Kim Brede are St. Louis Conference Ministry Directors of Family Life Today’s “Weekend to Remember” (www.weekendtoremember) – and they have done so for 21 years. Twenty-four other couples serve with them on the Ministry Team. The “Weekend to Remember” has a wonderful track record for making great marriages better … and for saving … [Read more...]

Charlie Williams, Executive Director of St. Charles (Missouri) Ministry to Men (www.ministrytomen.net) fills us in regarding more than 800 men coming to the very creative “Hunting and Fishing” Ministry Extravaganza on the west edge of the St. Louis, MO area. Speaking effectively at the event was author, guide, and master storyteller Rocky McElveen … [Read more...]

Pastor Dave Michelson is the Senior Pastor at Calvary Church in St. Peters, Missouri. Calvary Church is serving as a Satellite site for this year's "Leadership Summit" on August 9-11. The annual event is broadcast live from Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago, Illinois. More than 80,000 leaders will attend various Satellite sites, because … [Read more...]

Christina Miller is an electrical engineer, a single young woman living in St. Louis with a real desire to visit the Holy Land. When her scheduled tour group canceled before departure, Chris determined to go alone. Steve and (medical doctor) Anita Collins, (friends of Chris’s friends, David and Cortland Hendrick) met her at the Amman, Jordan, … [Read more...]

Pastor Jim Goforth leads the New Life Baptist Church in North St. Louis County, MO, an intentionally multi-racial congregation. He frequently expresses his conviction that a church should look like the community in which it is located. In preparation for the recent 2007 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in San Antonio, … [Read more...]

John Bower is the son of St. Louis CBMC Director Stan and Laura Bower of St. Louis, Missouri. He is part of a small group of mostly young businessmen in the Dallas area, called "The Retreat." In his own words, John Bower says that men of “The Retreat” are “… seeking to know Jesus and walk in raw, organic community. We seek to affect ‘the least … [Read more...]

Missouri Senator Delbert Scott stood on the floor of the Missouri Senate and quietly but clearly told a powerful and compelling personal story. He spoke of a young lady in the early 1900’s who traveled from St. Joseph, MO to Kansas City … to give away her baby! Being young and unmarried, she shed tears as she released her little girl to a family … [Read more...]