About the Organizations

Show Me Missions

How the Organizations Benefit

Gifts to the Show Me State Missions Offering go directly to the institutions and ministries listed here. CBF of Missouri, who manages and promotes the offering, takes no fees or percentages for administrative costs. %100 goes toward mission and ministry.

Give generously to support the Missouri ministries and missions. Your gifts nourish seeds of hope and new possibility. They refresh those who thirst for good news.

Read more about these worthy organizations below, or download a summary Word document from our Resources page.

Missouri Ministries

Missouri Baptist Children’s Home
The Missouri Baptist Children’s Home provides programs and services for children, youth and families. Believing that God ordained the family as the primary institution for nurture, growth and support of children, our services reflect the belief that “family works.”

Missouri Baptist Foundation
The Foundation's priorities are to promote Christian stewardship, assist with the planning and implementation of charitable gift arrangements and manage assets entrusted to the Foundation to provide perpetual support for the mission and ministry efforts of Missouri Baptists.

Missouri Baptist University
Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis is an evangelical Christian, liberal arts institution of higher learning offering programs of study leading to professional certificates and undergraduate degrees in an environment where academic excellence is emphasized and a Biblically based Christian perspective is maintained. The University is committed to enriching its students' lives spiritually, intellectually, and professionally, and to providing educational services to the community.

The Baptist Home
The mission of The Baptist Home is to enable each Senior Adult to live up to his or her highest potential. The Baptist Home reflects God's love in its ministries to the aging. The Home has three campuses (Ironton, Chillicothe, and Ozark) and a number of resources and programs available to all Missouri churches interested in quality ministry to senior adults. In 2006, The Baptist Home began a campaign to support a care facility in Belarus called The Baptist House of Mercy.

William Jewell College
Founded in 1849, William Jewell College continues to earn a solid reputation as one of mid-America’s most consistently honored and academically challenging private colleges. With its rigorous academic culture and focus on student achievement, the college offers students an outstanding education grounded in the liberal arts with a unique focus on cultivating leadership, intellectual and spiritual growth.

Windermere Conference Center
Windermere provides a Christian setting for all Missouri Baptists to experience spiritual growth, training, recreation, and relaxation. Windermere promotes the spiritual, moral, mental, and physical development of all who attend its programs and use its facilities. Thousands of people use Windermere facilities each year for conferences, retreats, seminars, and camps.

Word and Way
Providing Missouri Baptists with local and national Baptist information for more than a century, Word and Way seeks to promote the work of Christ and encourage inspirational living.

New Horizons

Collegiate Service Initiatives
When college students choose to give one summer in mission service, that choice changes their lives and others. Show Me State Missions Offering funds provide stipends for Missouri students who serve through Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Student.Go program. These students will serve for ten weeks in mission settings in the U.S. and beyond. In past years, college students have served in inner-city Miami, Washington DC, New York and Los Angeles, as well as CBF mission sites in Florida, Alabama, and even Bali.

Emerge Leadership Training
Emerge is a leadership development process for lay church leaders. Today’s churches are in desperate need of high-quality spiritual leadership. The year-long peer learning, training and mentoring offered in emerge gives attendees the knowledge and understanding to be pillars of strength and wisdom for churches. Emerge training is a gift that will benefit churches for years to come.

New Church Starts
New church starts are an effective means of reaching the unsaved and the unchurched. A new church is free to be mission oriented in its approach to ministry and service. A new church by necessity will understand well the culture of the people it is called to reach. Funds from the Show Me State Missions Offering will be used to encourage entrepreneurial church starters in their work.

State Youth Events
Young Baptists throughout Missouri have a number of mission and event opportunities from which to choose; however, traditional ties between Baptists are disintegrating or perceived as irrelevant. Funds from the Show Me State Missions Offering will provide for shared events and projects between youth groups from all across the state. Our desire is to foster a renewed sense of identity, community and commitment.

Community Partners

Mid American Indian Fellowships
Mid American Indian Fellowships (MAIF) provides contextualized ministry for American Indians. Started in January 1999, MAIF now includes eight gatherings in Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas. Indian Fellowships meet in homes, sometimes on creek banks or river banks, and when invited they host Sunday morning breakfasts and worship circles at powwows. MAIF is a model and mentor for other, similar American Indian ministries across the country. They work together with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and other groups to bring assistance to Indian people living in impoverished areas of South Dakota.

Romany Gypsies
More than 45,000 Bosnian refugees live in the St. Louis area. In 2003, Kirkwood Baptist Church helped establish the Family Food Pantry at Christy Memorial United Methodist Church in the heart of the Bosnian community. The ministry provides an important source of food for 75 families each week, offers ESL classes, and initiates various other ministries. A network of area churches partners with Sasa Zivanov, a Bosnian pastor, to provide a bridge of trust and relationship to this community.

Together for Hope Missouri
Together for Hope is the Fellowship's 20-year commitment to walk alongside the 20 poorest counties in the United States to affect transformational development in these areas. A group in Missouri is seeking ways to have a lasting impact Missouri counties affected by high and systemic poverty.

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