Fusion Impact
what is Fusion Impact? Fusion Impact is an exciting summer mission opportunity for high school students to serve with IMB missionaries in evangelism and church planting projects globally. Ministry venues vary from urban centers to rural settings. Fusion Impact not...
Retired Pastor’s Lunch
The annual meeting of the retired pastors and wives was held on Feb 27 in Des Moines. High points of current ministries were reported by many. It is very evident that these men may be retired as pastors of churches, but they are very active in other ministries and...
Iowa Campers on Mission Spring Rally
Iowa Campers on Mission will have their spring rally at Community Baptist Church, 522 Anthony St, Waterloo, Iowa from May 12-16. There are plenty of projects to do including replacing doors, enlarging a room, drywall work, electrical, painting, possibly some window...
EVANGELISM SPOTLIGHT: CHAPLAINCY
SBC chaplains share Christ where local church can’t By Tobin Perry ALPHARETTA, Ga. – From foreign battlefields to American corporate board rooms to hospital bedsides to the front seats of police cars and more, Southern Baptists minister through their chaplains in...
Missions school trains believers in Amazon
by Emily Pearson IQUITOS, Peru (BP) -- Just three days after his wife died, 72-year-old Edison Romero climbed into a cramped wooden boat for a journey down the Amazon. He could have stayed home to mourn. Instead he took a 12-hour trip from his village to Iquitos,...
FIRST-PERSON: Hospitality & your heart
by Melissa Deming PITTSBURGH, Pa. (BP) -- It was through a shared meal that God first spoke to our hearts about helping plant a church in the heart of Pittsburgh. The first time we visited our church, it wasn't even a church yet. The pastor invited us to share a meal...
No typical Sunday for church planter
CAMBRIDGE, Md. (BP) -- A typical Sunday for Jose Nater looks anything but typical. As church planter and pastor of not one, not two, but three Spanish-language church plants on the eastern shore of Maryland, Nater and his family spend their Sundays on the road. The...
How NAMB is assisting Southern Baptist churches in evangelism
By H. Al Gilbert ALPHARETTA, Ga. – God works through His people, the Church. The Bible makes it very clear. The local church is central in God’s plan to move the gospel throughout the world. That’s why the evangelism teams at the North American Mission Board (NAMB)...
“Restoration and revival through prayer,” is the theme of the Southern Baptist Convention 2014 annual meeting
BALTIMORE (BP) -- "Restoration and revival through prayer," is the theme of the Southern Baptist Convention 2014 annual meeting June 10 - 11 in Baltimore, SBC President Fred Luter has announced. "We have not had a theme that focused on prayer and revival for many...
Tim Lubinus Announced as new Executive Director/Treasurer
After a little over a year of searching for the person God has set aside as the next Executive Director/Treasurer of the Baptist Convention of Iowa, Tim Lubinus was elected to the position by the Executive Board on Monday March 10th. Tim Lubinus will be replacing...
