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...
NAMB Myths
As I am meeting with pastors and other members of BCI churches I sometimes have an opportunity to either verify or invalidate a rumor. If I hear the same rumor more than once, I realize that some kind of miscommunication has happened. I have heard a few rumors about...
Baptist Volunteers Return to Colorado & Montana
by Kristen Camp ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) teams continue to provide help, healing, and hope to the victims of last year’s floods in Colorado and Montana as they resume the recovery efforts after a long, cold winter. The floods destroyed...
Take VBS to the Backyard
by Jerry Wooley 6 steps to get you started with a Backyard Kids Club Vacation Bible School (VBS) continues to be one of the most effective evangelistic events conducted by thousands of churches each year, yet millions of families remain unreached. Many of these...
Baptisms – The Salt Company Iowa City
Xavier came from East Asia to go to the University of Iowa. When our international ministry leaders first met him he had no idea who Jesus was. He was invited to join a family group, which is a bible study for internationals, and throughout the semester learned about...
Church reaches out to South Sudanese fleeing violence
by JoAnn Bradberry NIMULE, South Sudan (BP) -- As a third of South Sudan's population faces starvation, International Mission Board personnel and Baptist Global Response are partnering with a local church to care for those fleeing ethnic violence. Nearly four million...
