LifeChanger Missions is on Facebook
Stay in touch with LifeChanger Missions at facebook.com/LCmissions. Are you going to help with this project in Sioux City this year. Save the date for June 20-27! LifeChanger Missions is a community outreach project that is focused on repairing homes for low-income...
FBC Bettendorf celebrates mortgage burning
By Jonette Appleton God's faithfulness continues at First Baptist Church, Bettendorf, Iowa. In 2013 the church celebrated 50 years of ministry in Bettendorf and on February 22, 2015, they held another celebration by burning the mortgage on the property. The First...
A simple click leads to GenSend engagement
By Jim Burton PORTLAND, Ore.—Perhaps this is only supposed to happen in movies. But with a little help from Google and one click of a mouse, Sarah Reese Hunt found her life’s direction and eventually her husband. The North American Mission Board (NAMB) can’t guarantee...
Motivation for Giving to the Cooperative Program
By Tim Lubinus, BCI Executive Director/Treasurer I asked the Baptist Convention of Iowa’s Executive Board what their main motivation is for giving to the Cooperative Program. Below are the representative answers: Through the Cooperative Program our church can directly...
Celebrating Lives Well Lived
By Darlene Lubinus Since quitting my job as a grade school teacher last May, I have had the pleasure of occasionally accompanying my husband as he travels around the state to visit with pastors. It has been such a joy to meet our pastors and wives and to hear how God...
New missionaries join God’s ‘unstoppable mission’
by Marie Curtis HOUSTON (BP) -- The only interest David Kizziah had in church as a youth was the gym at Circlewood Baptist Church. He and his friends broke into the gym to play basketball several times before being caught. But the youth minister showed grace that...
Fifteen Reasons Our Churches Are Less Evangelistic Today
By Thom S. Rainer By almost any metric, the churches in our nation are much less evangelistic today than they were in the recent past. In my own denomination, we are reaching non-Christians only half as effectively as we were 50 years ago (we measure membership to...
Highlights of the 2015 Southern Baptist Convention
Pastors and Wives Retreat: One Generation to the Next
April 23-25, 2015 Holiday Inn Downtown Lead Pastor Couple $100 Additional Pastoral Staff Couple $150 We would like to personally invite BCI pastors and their wives to a retreat April 23-25, 2015 at the Holiday Inn Downtown, 1050 6th Avenue, Des Moines. This weekend is...
Disaster Relief Chaplaincy Training
March 13-14 Enio Aguero, NAMB’s chaplaincy instructor, will be teaching the chaplaincy certification course at the Eastern Nebraska Baptist Association (ENBA) Offices in Omaha. Iowans who are interested in chaplaincy training are invited to attend. Southern Baptist...
