Missouri Missions Offering
This past week we kicked off the Missouri Missions Offering. If you are unfamiliar with MMO, this is a special offering that stays within our state's missional work. Here are just a few examples of how this funding has been utilized:
"Jayme Milam and his Fellowship Baptist Church FAITH Riders used an MBC Prayer & Evangelism Grant to host a gospel outreach event in Sikeston, resulting in 32 professions of faith.
The Missouri Baptist Children’s Home helped a young woman and her son bridge the gap from homelessness to hope through its Stronger Family Services.
And despite suffering the effects of a brain tumor, Larry Lierman volunteered with Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief to help repair a woman’s house destroyed by flooding.
All of this – and much more – is possible because Missouri Baptists give faithfully to the Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering (MMO). The annual state missions offering supports more than two dozen ministries, including Christian foster care, disaster relief, church renewal, and other projects that help churches transform lives and communities with the gospel."
The theme of this year’s offering is drawn from Philippians 1:5, where Paul thanks God for every memory of his Philippian brothers and sisters because of their “partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.”
Reflecting on this passage, MBC Executive Director Wes Fowler noted, “Like Christians in Philippi, Missouri Baptists have the privilege of being partners in the gospel with one another by contributing to God’s work across our state.”
Last year, 671 Missouri Baptist churches supported MMO, giving $952,530, the third-highest level of giving since the offering was introduced in 1985 and far outpacing the goal of $800,000. The 2026 goal is $825,000.