TSC Leadership
Vital and central to the health and growth of our ministry is our student leadership team. Throughout all of March we will receive applications to be part of our TSC Leadership Team for the 2013/2014 school year, as well as conducting hundreds of interviews. As we...
The Joy of the Lord
Elizabeth grew up in a wonderful Catholic family, knowing she was loved and cared for. In 2009, she was tragically one of 20 students who witnessed the shooting of Coach Ed Thomas in Parkersburg, Iowa. Coach Thomas was an incredible testimony of a man who loved Jesus...
Connection Group: A family
My co leader Kristi and I have been truly blessed to watch God work in and through the lives of the girls in our Connection Group the past couple of years – we’ve become family! This year we have challenged the girls and also ourselves to be more welcoming and...
Healthier foods needed cost Friendship Center more
"For kids to be without access to fruits and vegetables is unacceptable" is the way Mindy Jamison, Friendship Baptist Center Director, spoke of the Center's new ministry. Food security has always been an issue for those around the Friendship Center, but recent...
Scripture pillows to bring comfort to the hurting
Inspired by an article on making pillow cases with scripture verses to show God's love and care to those hurting from cancer, abuse, etc., the Women on Mission (WOM) group of First Baptist Church, Bettendorf, Iowa, made plans to include a project work day as part of...
Because Chicken Soup Is Not Enough
National Day of Prayer
The Baptist Convention of Iowa with its partnering churches encourages you to participate in the National Day of Prayer, Thursday, May 2. Commit some time during May 2, 2013 to pray for our Nation, our nation’s leaders, our families, co-workers, friends, and even our...
Bill Hyde: ‘John Wayne of missions’
RICHMOND, Va.—Ten years ago March 4, a bomb planted at a Philippine airport by a Muslim rebel group killed 23 people — including one American, a Southern Baptist missionary named Bill Hyde. It’s ironic that Hyde, 59, died at the little airport in Davao City where he’d...
Church Planters in Iowa Begin Using Twitter
I read an article recently about how Iowa State football staff is using Twitter to enlist, track, and inform potential football players about Iowa State. I must confess I never have been a Twitter user. But I realized in reading the article some very practical...
Discipleship is ‘what you do’ with what you learn
If you have been following my articles these past months then, hopefully, you understand that discipleship is not a class we attend or a course of knowledge we acquire. We might attend a class to gain knowledge, but that is not discipleship. It is not memorizing a set...
