Students serve together at the Salt Company in Cedar Falls
By Nick Anderson During the fall semester, Salt Company in Cedar Falls teams up with the University of Northern Iowa to help cars file into parking lots surrounding the UNI-Dome and Mcleod Center for various sporting events. Students are able to sign up to help with...
Confronting the brokenness of our racial divide at Salt Company Des Moines
By Dakota Jackson, Salt Company Resident Recently on Drake’s campus, there has been a great deal of brokenness over the issues of race. There have been a number of threatening notes that have been left under the doors of African-American students that communicated...
Students See Jesus Clearly at Salt Company Fall Retreat
By Dakota Jackson, Salt Company Resident, Cottage Grove Church The end of October is one of the busiest and best times of the year in the life of Salt DSM as it is Fall Retreat season. As a Salt staff, we had been praying and thinking about the retreat for a long time...
First Family Church hosts Multiplication Conference
By Tanner Battles, Communications Director, First Family Church At the close of "GO Month" focused on missions and outreach in October, First Family Church hosted a conference on multiplication called “The Matter of X.” The conference featured two international...
Southern Hills Baptist Church hosts “Good News Club” at local elementary school
By Beth Lamb Local children attend a "Good News Club" every Monday after school, at Morningside Elementary in Sioux City. Pastor Bob Dillman, four church volunteers and I teach the Club. 17 of these children are un-churched, so it is a real mission field. We gave...
Lives changed and students dedicated to lives of service at Salt Company Ames Fall Retreat
By Luke Peterson, October has likely been the busiest month of the school year so far. While we continued in our normal rhythm of Connection Groups and Thursday night gatherings, we also had our Fall Retreat this month. Our Connection Groups have seen steady growth in...
2018 Annual Meeting Report: Iowa Baptists Cast Vision for “Reaching Iowa” with the Gospel
By BCI Staff, The 2018 Baptist Convention of Iowa (BCI) Annual Meeting was held Saturday, November 10th at the Hilton Garden Inn in West Des Moines. One hundred twenty-one messengers represented 52 churches at the meeting. Keynote speaker Wes Searcy, President of Next...
Stonebridge Church reaches Boone with Trunk-or-Treat event
by Joey Weber, Associate Pastor Stonebridge Church hosted their annual Trunk-or-Treat event in Boone, reaching nearly 3,000 people. Stonebridge partnered with the Boone Chamber and Shop With A Cop to highlight their church to the community. Previously Shop With A Cop...
An invitation to discipleship at the Light Company in Grinnell
By Nate Jones "Follow me." Those are Jesus's famous words to his Disciples as he calls them into a new life with him. In the book of John he is quoted as saying "come and see" with the same purpose. In 1 Corinthians 1:11, Paul tells his readers and listeners to "Be...
LifeChange Church reaches community through “Rock the Pumpkin” event
By Chase Abner, BCI Lead Church Planting Catalyst, On October 28, LifeChange Church hosted their second annual "Rock the Pumpkin" event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds to reach out to the East Des Moines community. Over 200 visitors came from the four area elementary...
