Dan Davis, www.cupofnations.com & Brad Wos, founder of www.sportsoutreachgroup.org, provide leadership on utilizing sports in ministry.  They tell of what is becoming an annual St. Louis, MO soccer tournament for internationals – explained at www.cupofnations.com, now spreading to other cities -- as a means of building relationships with them … [Read more...]

David Smith, CEO of the Illinois Family Institute (www.illinoisfamily.org) and Pastor Danny Holiday of the Victory Baptist Church in Alton, IL provide a strategy for resisting the unbiblical push in the Illinois Legislature to legalize single-sex marriage.  As it appears of the writing, it may pass the Illinois Senate but citizens have an excellent … [Read more...]

Mayor T.R. Carr, past very effective Mayor of the St. Louis suburb of Hazelwood, MO, and currently is a department head at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.  In early adulthood T.R. and wife Lucy were on the ministry staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.  During the last three Urbana Missions Conferences, T.R. and Lucy rent a … [Read more...]

Evangelist Rob Welch of our St. Louis area tells of his “For His Glory” team’s most recent “Festival” in Homa Bay, Kenya.  The Gospel of Christ was proclaimed - cumulatively in five days -- to approximately 190,000.  More than 39,000 indicated that they had come to faith in Christ.   The team partners with more than 300 local pastors in … [Read more...]

Darla Davidson Lawrence and husband Trey were devastated upon learning that they were to become parents of a Down Syndrome baby.    Now that little Dawson is here … and bringing much joy to the whole family … they cannot imagine life without him!          In telling her moving story, Darla shares about the time when Cayden, her … [Read more...]

Vicki Stamp, media director for Samaritans Purse for St. Louis and 10 counties in Eastern Missouri, reports a historic accomplishment performed by great numbers of followers of Jesus.  Since the beginning of Operation Christmas Child in 1993, sponsored by Samaritan Purse, 100 million shoeboxes of love gifts for needy children worldwide now have … [Read more...]

Pastor Jamie (“hi’ mee”) Castro with his wife and four children recently made the ministry change from serving the two St. Louis area churches he served as pastor to accept the invitation to lead a Bible College in their native Mexico.  Before making such a  major decision, the parents were led to seek the “blessing” and commitment of their four … [Read more...]

John Hanna, Prayer Coordinator, Urbana 12 (email at john.hanna@intervarsity.org, 828-719-8860), mobilizing prayer for what is thought to be the world’s largest student missions’ Conference, conducted in St. Louis, MO Dec 27 – 31, expecting 18,000.  See www.urbana.org.    From www.urbana.org …   Urbana.org is growing.  Guiding this … [Read more...]

Michael Holmes, President, RX Outreach, is providing remarkably low cost prescription medications to those of middle and modest incomes, saving participants multiple millions of dollars each year.  Printed on each med container: “Serving God by helping others.”   See www.rxoutreach.org.     From www.rxoutreach.org. Rx Outreach is a … [Read more...]

“I don’t give a ‘Flying Wallenda’…” is the amusing response of Raymond’s grumpy TV dad in Everybody Loves Raymond.  Hear Tino Wallenda, leader of the ‘Flying Wallendas,’ tell about his high-wire-walking family now going on the eighth generation, a nephew recently high wire walking over Niagara Falls, and the Circus Flora performing with the St. … [Read more...]