Our Botched Vote at Annual Meeting
By Tim Lubinus, BCI Executive Director/Treasurer Whenever you have two votes on the same two candidates for the same office at the same meeting and come up with two different results, you know something went terribly wrong. We botched our voting process at our last...
Meet Southern Baptists
For almost 170 years, Southern Baptists have sought to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all people everywhere. The Southern Baptist Convention was formed with a Gospel vision. Its founding charter identifies its singular focus: ...for the purpose of eliciting,...
CP ‘a tool to obey the Great Commission’
by Karen L. Willoughby KELLER, Texas (BP) -- Keith Sanders, pastor for the last 10 years of First Baptist Church in Keller, Texas, describes the church's love for missions as "almost a wildfire out of control." Nearly every month, a First Baptist Keller member...
Why your church needs a New Members Class
By Thom S. Rainer Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:47 — 21.8MB) Subscribe via iTunes • Subscribe via RSS • Subscribe via Stitcher • Subscribe via TuneIn Radio A new members class is critical to informing prospective new members of information and...
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...
