World Cup outreach pumps college soccer team
by Marie Curtis NATAL, Brazil (BP) – A college women's soccer team kicked off Baptist outreach efforts for the FIFA World Cup –- starting today (June 12) through July 13 in Brazil -- with a weeklong mission project combining soccer and evangelism.When 10 players from...
Convention Wrap Up: SBC elects Floyd, prays for revival & restoration
by David Roach BALTIMORE (BP) -- Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention elected Arkansas pastor Ronnie Floyd as president and heard repeated calls for prayer and revival -- highlighted by outgoing President Fred Luter's presidential sermon.Messengers also gave...
Record Breaking 2013 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
By Erich Bridges RICHMOND, Va.—Southern Baptists gave an unprecedented $154 million to the 2013 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, breaking the record for the largest total in the offering’s 125-year history. The 2013 offering,...
Gospel conversations emphasized at NAMB presentation
by Adam Miller BALTIMORE (BP) -- North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell exhorted messengers at the 2014 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting to join in reaching communities for Christ through "Gospel conversations.""We have much to celebrate,...
Sarah, an Emerging Leader – The Salt Company Iowa City
#testifytuesday I was raised in a fairly traditional Lutheran church. I went through the motions of youth group, church, and other “religious” activities. Going through school (high school especially) I was very much living for myself. Despite my involvement in youth...
Ministry Report – The Salt Company Iowa City
By Jenny Calsyn, Salt Company Coordinator May was a crazy but great month! We wrapped up the semester and sent students out for their summers. It’s always bittersweet when the semester gets over. We miss the students but welcome the calmer pace for a few months. For...
BCI Hosts Church Planting Summit
The Baptist Convention of Iowa hosted a church-planting summit for thirty-four church planters from ten churches at Grace Church in Des Moines on Tuesday, May 27. The attendees were from among the leaders of churches that have recently planted a church, or leaders of...
Campers on Mission Spring Project
by Ty Berry, BCI Staff Community Southern Baptist Church-Waterloo, Iowa -- A small but effective group of Iowa Campers on Mission (COM) completed their spring mission project at Community Southern Baptist Church, Waterloo, to the delight of Pastor Ted Keys and his...
Words of Hope
In the last four months, two of our churches and our convention family have experienced the suicides of two of our pastors. Suicide creates a great deal of uneasiness for believers. After all, we may ask, “What about the abundant Christian life?” Or how about,...
Mission:Dignity Sunday, June 22
Since 1918, GuideStone Financial Resources has been on a “Mission” to provide “Dignity” to retired Southern Baptist ministers, workers or their widows. These are men and women who have faithfully served God’s people and now find themselves struggling to meet even...
