Archive for October, 2008

Reflections on the 2008 MBC annual meeting

Posted on October 31, 2008 at 8:36pm by Micah Fries 11 Comments

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 the…

Out of the mouths of babes…

Posted on October 30, 2008 at 9:10pm by Micah Fries 1 Comment

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 the yard,…

MBC Update

Posted on October 28, 2008 at 6:44am by Micah Fries 2 Comments

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…

Spending time in the Lou…

Posted on October 26, 2008 at 8:27pm by Micah Fries 5 Comments

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 aren’t here…

Watching the Go Conference

Posted on October 23, 2008 at 8:45pm by Micah Fries 1 Comment

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…

Various and sundry items

Posted on October 22, 2008 at 9:27pm by Micah Fries No Comment

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…