Twelve kids choose to trust in Christ at Friendship Center Basketball Camp
By Joe Quick, Executive Director of the Friendship Center The Friendship Center recently set an attendance record for Food Pantry night with 49 individuals coming to receive a blessing provided by donations to the Center. One woman, with two small kids, walked an hour...
A Youth Camp that will “Resonate” for a Lifetime
Resonate Youth Camp kicked off last week at Grandview University in Des Moines. It was a time of extreme fun and hands-on experience of being "on mission" with God. The week-long event for middle school and high school students combines relevant and inspiring times of...
Iowa tornado devastation triggers Baptist DR response
by Tobin Perry MASHALLTOWN, Iowa (BP) -- Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams have begun cleanup work in Marshalltown, Iowa, following a devastating tornado July 19. A Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief team arrived Tuesday to set up incident command at Iglesia Karios...
Love shines amidst hopelessness as good news reaches the Deaf
Thanks to Southern Baptists’ gifts through the Cooperative Program and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®, believers can live and work among Deaf Peoples. This enables them to join God in making disciples and multiplying churches among unreached peoples and places...
Disaster Relief Response to Marshalltown Tornado
Iowa Disaster Relief began work in Marshalltown on Monday June 24, just three days after the Iowa community was hit by a tornado. A chainsaw team from Missouri began work on affected homes. Iowa volunteers are working with the chainsaw teams carrying limbs and debris...
Kari Minter joins BCI as Planter Spouse Care Advocate
BCI is pleased to announce that Kari Minter has joined our team as the Planter Spouse Care Advocate. Kari will work alongside Chase Abner and our church planting team with a focus on supporting planters' wives and developing them as leaders for their unique role in...
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief responds to Des Moines area flooding
Twenty-one volunteers from Iowa and forty-seven volunteers from Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas have been helping flooding victims in the Des Moines area for the past 10 days. They have been assessing homes for damage, cleaning out homes, providing...
Iowa Campers on Mission paints Friendship Center
Iowa Campers on Mission just finished helping Friendship Center in Des Moines. Six members helped in this project. The building needed a lot of scraping, caulking, and then painting. After many hours of work in the hot July sun the building has a new look. Drive by...
Singermans see cooperative gospel effort in Sub-Saharan Africa
By IMB Staff In the country that birthed voodoo, Beninese Baptists are working collectively to pray for and support the spread of the gospel. It’s a story IMB missionary Barbara Singerman can’t share without tearing up. “They are investing in missions,” she said....
Looking for work, Venezuelan refugee finds hope in God’s Word
By IMB Staff Fernando* felt like a failure. For a month-and-a-half he had been looking for work in Colombia, where he didn’t know anyone. He longed to hold his wife and daughter again, but he couldn’t return to Venezuela without a solution. He and his wife had agreed:...
