BCI Seminary Tuition Scholarship Report
By Tim Lubinus, BCI Executive Director/Treasurer In 2014 the BCI Foundation Committee revised the seminary tuition scholarship fund to better enable members of BCI affiliated churches to prepare for ministry. We want to do everything we can do to develop...
3 Do-or-Die Actions I’d encourage young pastors to embrace
By Todd Stiles, Lead Pastor, First Family Church, Ankeny It has been just over a year since our church launched a young church planter to Central Asia to begin work there as a church planter/pastor. And though he had good preparation in the church before he began, as...
A Church For Grinnell and Beyond
By Cody Hinton, Lead Pastor, Paragon Church - Grinnell A blistering 2015 April day in the heart of Tampa, Florida—two men in cushy stadium seats sat in a church big enough to call itself a city. Both feeling the call from God, they dreamed of planting a church...
Summer Missions at Christ Point, Shenandoah
By Pastor Noel Gandy Greetings from Christ Point! In April, we celebrated one year of moving to Iowa. The first year of ministry here has been a whirlwind! We arrived in Iowa on April 24, 2016 and the wheels have been turning ever since. It has been with the wonderful...
Harvest Bible Chapel Hosts Record High Five VBS Week
By Ryan Jorgenson, Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel God has done great work at Harvest Bible Chapel in the Grimes, IA area July 19-23 as they held their new VBS version called High Five. They saw attendance from last year nearly double with 110 kids attending and a...
Student Leaders raised up at Salt Company Cedar Falls
By Hailey Koerperich, Freshman Women's Ministry Leader At 10:02 every day, phone alarms are going off throughout the Candeo Church building. Luke 10:2 declares that “the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few” and that earnest prayers to the Lord of the...
EC Young Leaders Advisory Council Seeks Input
by Roger S. Oldham Many younger pastors highly value both the name “Cooperative Program” and the ministries funded through CP, according to the “2017 SBC EC Young Leaders Advisory Council Survey.” Released in March and slated to conclude in early August, the survey is...
My First SBC Annual Meeting
by Todd Stiles, Lead Pastor, First Family Church, Ankeny I grew up in an “independent, fundamental, Bible-believing” church. Personally, it was very good for me and, though that phrase has a legalistic, controlling ring to it when it rolls off the tongue, I benefitted...
A New Chapter for the Jamisons and the Friendship Baptist Center
by Jon Jamison, Co-Director, Friendship Baptist Center Friends and Ministry Partners, We need to make an announcement that impacts the Friendship Center. On July 1, for the first time since 1999, we will no longer be the Directors of the Friendship Baptist Center. A...
Hungry & Homeless Outreach in Des Moines
By Jon "Ole" Olsen, Administrative Pastor, Crestwood Baptist Church Crestwood Baptist Church in the Drake neighborhood of Des Moines hosts a Hungry and Homeless Outreach every Wednesday evening providing a meal for forty to sixty needy in the area. It is not only the...
