Stories from Saturday, June 15, 2024

MARSHALL, Mo. — Missouri Valley College students have selected Kloee Mills and Alexis Leeper as Student Government president and vice president for the 2024-2025 academic year. Both spent the past year working as student ambassadors in the admissions department. Mills, from Oak Grove, Missouri, is a studying biology. Leeper, from Essex, is pre-nursing...

“He told them another parable. ‘The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.’”—Matthew 13:33 The process of leavening bread dough is an interesting thing. Yeast is added to the mixture and over time it produces bubbles in the dough that make the finished product light and fluffy. ...

According to the Three-Year Scripture Lectionary — Series B — the Second Sunday of Pentecost began (on May 19 this year) what some call the Time of the Church. I like to think of it as the “Green Season” not only because our liturgical color is green during Pentecost, because it also includes outreach efforts such as prayer canvassing, VBS, and participation in community-wide events at which Biblical church members engage in enlightening people of the authority of the Holy Scriptures...