‘Together,’ ‘strategy,’ ‘genius’ among CP descriptors
By Karen L. Willoughby EDITOR'S NOTE: April 7 is Cooperative Program Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention. For information about the Cooperative Program, go to sbc.net/cp. MILES CITY, Mont. (BP) -- A Montana pastor likens the effect of the Cooperative Program to...
Iowa Baptists respond to Iowa flooding
Following the flooding in Hornick, Iowa, Paster Bob Dillman, Executive Pastor of Southern Hills Baptist Church, contacted the Woodbury County Sheriff to let him know that local SBC churches could help with the cleanup effort. Southern Hills Baptist, Heartland Baptist...
Salt Ankeny goes beyond learning with a strategy to DO evangelism
Salt Ankeny has recently started a new outreach tactic with Connection Groups called DIG and DO weeks. During DIG weeks, groups dig into the Bible and work through discussion questions over the message from the last week’s Salt Company. During DO weeks, connection...
Church planting: Key for sending church is vision
In the fall of 2018, Rob Warren, pictured here, launched Doxa Church in Madison, Wisc., with the help of Cornerstone Church in Ames, Iowa. Doxa is one of 15 churches Cornerstone has launched since it began in 1994. NAMB photo by Daniel McCullough. by Brandon Elrod...
Spring training for college students
By Dirk Wiese, Pastor, Redeemer Church This month we hosted our first “Spring Training” event for college students. Our goal was to equip students with a greater understanding of the gospel, God’s mission throughout the Bible, and practical application for evangelism...
Salt Company Iowa City equips students to share the Gospel
By Olivia Ginther, Salt Company Coordinator Each semester, the Salt Company at the University of Iowa offers an equipping class for our students to learn more about the Gospel. This class is eleven weeks long and goes through everything from creation, sin, Jesus’...
Launching a movement in a most secular city
Editors note: Rob and Lisa Warren are missionaries supported by your gifts through the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering®. They serve in our neighbor state of Wisconsin and have been sent by Iowa's own Salt Network. By Brandon Elrod (MADISON, Wis.)—Home of a population...
Friendship Center announces September fundraising Gala
By Joe Quick, Executive Director, Friendship Center We are working diligently on evaluating our ministries and seeking to add ministries that would help us reach more for Christ in 2019. We could not impact Des Moines without your prayers, financial support, donations...
Over 2300 students gather for the 2019 Salt Spring Conference.
The first weekend in February students that are a part of the Salt Network at colleges across the Midwest gathered for the Spring Conference. Over 2300 college students from around the country came together to worship the name of Jesus and hear incredible teaching...
Prayer moves the arm that moves the world
By J.D. Greear EDITOR'S NOTE: March 3-10 is the Southern Baptist Convention's Week of Prayer and Mission Study for North American Missions and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. J.D. Greear is the president of the SBC and pastor of The Summit Church in the...
