December sees times of worship and reflection at the Salt Company in Iowa City
By Olivia Ginther, The Salt Company Coordinator December is a very interesting month in the life of The Salt Company. We begin the month finishing strong with connection groups, our Thursday night gathering, and a community-wide night of worship at the church. The...
Baby-saving ministry ready to extend its reach
By Grace Thornton EDITOR'S NOTE: Sunday, Jan. 20, is the Southern Baptist Convention's Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. FLINT, Mich. (BP) -- Justin Phillips said it's the best and worst thing he's ever done with his life. Every day, he stands across the strip mall...
Discipleship and Small Groups
By Chris McRae, BCI Discipleship Team Leader, The church has often fallen for the temptation of trying to mass produce mature followers of Jesus Christ. This has rightly drawn criticism both from the culture around us and from those within our midst. Such a strategy...
Salt Company Cedar Falls Hosts Freshmen Group Christmas Party
By Madigan Marchisani, This year at UNI, we’ve upped our efforts to reach and share with freshman specifically by hosting a weekly Freshman Group gathering. Each week, Freshman Group exists to build class identity and relationships among the students as they get to...
2018, A Year In Review
By Ben Bradley, BCI Communications & Outreach Director 2018 has been a great year for the churches of the Baptist Convention of Iowa. We wanted to take a moment and look back at just a few of the many encouraging things we have seen God do in and through our...
The Good Life College Ministry engages in Gospel Conversations at the Student Union
by Dirk Wiese, As Fall Kickoff season has since passed, The Good Life College Ministry at the University of Northern Iowa continues to discover new ways to be strategic on campus. Fall Kickoff can be seen as the biggest several weeks at the beginning of the year to...
Southern Hills Baptist partners with Angel Tree to provide Christmas Gifts for local families
by Beth Lamb, Southern Hills Baptist church purchased gifts for 48 children in Sioux City who have a parent in prison, partnering for the 10th year with Angel Tree, a ministry of Prison Fellowship. Our church members purchase the gifts, and the tag says it is from the...
Students serve together at the Salt Company in Cedar Falls
By Nick Anderson During the fall semester, Salt Company in Cedar Falls teams up with the University of Northern Iowa to help cars file into parking lots surrounding the UNI-Dome and Mcleod Center for various sporting events. Students are able to sign up to help with...
Confronting the brokenness of our racial divide at Salt Company Des Moines
By Dakota Jackson, Salt Company Resident Recently on Drake’s campus, there has been a great deal of brokenness over the issues of race. There have been a number of threatening notes that have been left under the doors of African-American students that communicated...
Students See Jesus Clearly at Salt Company Fall Retreat
By Dakota Jackson, Salt Company Resident, Cottage Grove Church The end of October is one of the busiest and best times of the year in the life of Salt DSM as it is Fall Retreat season. As a Salt staff, we had been praying and thinking about the retreat for a long time...
