The 2008 annual meeting of the Missouri Baptist Convention is in the books. This convention proved to be interesting, as they all are, but also less eventful than many have been in the past. That being said, it wasn’t without its fascinating, surprising, exciting and even disappointing moments. I’ll try to recap some of [...]

Gotta love this one.

A Sunday school teacher asked the children in her class, “If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would I get into Heaven?”
“No!” the children all answered.
“If I cleaned the church every day, mowed [...]

I don’t have much time to post an update, I’m writing this from the hotel business center, but I wanted to explain that I’m unable to provide regular updates as anticipated because my laptop quit working yesterday.

I’ll try to provide something of a recap when I get home, but for now just pray for [...]

We are here at the Millenium Hotel in St. Louis for the 2008 annual meeting of the Missouri Baptist Convention. I don’t know how much I will blog during the meetings, but I plan to work a bit on it. I’ll try to do my best to provide updates so that those who [...]

In addition to the option to watch the webcast of the Go Conference on the conference website, you can also view it right here at MicahFries.com. The player below will become “live” right before each service starts.

I should also mention, however, that we are using this technology for the first time and don’t yet [...]

I had an opportunity to work tonight for a while as we tried to get ready for the Go Conference coming up this weekend. As I was working, I was reminded that evidently more than a few people have been wondering whether we will provide childcare or not. The good news is that childcare will [...]

I have been excited about this coming weekend for almost a year now! Friday night will kick off our GO Conference! With speakers like Dave Gibbons, Dennis Culbreth and certainly Jerry Rankin, along with around 20 various missionaries who will be with us for the weekend we are about to be incredibly blessed as [...]

I wanted to wait to post this until after we had an opportunity to show it at church, but the video below is one we put together using videos and images that we took during our recent trip to Guatemala.

What an amazing day of worship today! Today was an incredible day during which God continued to look on our church with great favor.

The big news today was the presence of a Youth Pastor candidate. He preached in both am services and did an outstanding job. We voted this morning and evening and he [...]

The guys over at Baptist21.com have just started a new podcast that looks to be very promising. Today they released their first edition which features an interview with SBC President Johnny Hunt.

Many of you will remember that I supported Avery Willis for SBC President this past year at the annual meeting. having said [...]

October is birthday month in the Fries family. Growing up this was always a big month for us as my brother, sister and I all have birthdays in the month of October. My brother’s was last week, my sister’s is today and my birthday is in about 10 days. As I was thinking [...]

StJoeServe was significant enough yesterday to warrant some good media coverage. It was the lead story on the 10pm news last night and we woke up this morning to find out it was also the cover story on the front page of the newspaper! You can see both links below.

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