Ben Hess is a Church Planting Missionary with the North American Mission Board. He and his wife, Linda, are working in new church plants. Ben works with several church planters from their home in Crystal City, Missouri focusing on growing God’s Kingdom through church multiplication.
Ben has a bachelor’s degree from Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Missouri and a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ben has worked as a teamster warehouseman and farmer before serving several years as a church developer/planter missionary in Kenya, East Africa with the International Mission Board, SBC. He also served as a pastor of the Union Baptist Church in Stet, Missouri before his mission experience in Kenya. Ben served as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Herculaneum-Pevely in Pevely, Missouri after returning from Kenya.
Ben recommends those interested in church planting to read:
- PERIMETERS OF LIGHT by Towns & Stetzer
- Planting Missional Churches by Stetzer
- Simple Church by Rainer & Geiger
- Breaking the Missional Code by Stetzer & Putman
- Present Future by McNeal
God's blessings, Ben
Contact Information
email: bhess@mobaptist.org
telephone: 636-933-9140
cellphone: 314-520-7078
website: www.stlouischurchplanting.com
