Features
Black Genius School: Learning At Home
January 20, 2021
By Lauren Miers Parents of school-aged children know keeping kids motivated to continue their online distance learning schoolwork is difficult. Rev. Charity Goodwin and her sister Tramaine Williams encouraged their kids to take ownership of their school at home by giving it a name, ...
Still Ringing: Bells from Legacy Churches Ring On at Descendant Church
January 20, 2021
Fred Koenig
A bell on a stand in front of a church is a familiar scene. The bell had often been in the steeple of a former building and was moved when the church moved to a new location. Three bells, however, is much more unusual. But in the case of New Hope UMC in Owensville, the back story is ...
News and Updates
Pastoring While Positive
January 20, 2021
Fred Koenig
More than a dozen pastors in the Missouri Conference who are actively serving churches have contracted COVID-19 in the past year. Rev. Fred Luper of Onward and Elwood United Methodist churches lost his life to the disease on September 7. Rev. David Fitzmaurice of Belgrade UMC was diagnosed...