First Family Church hosts Multiplication Conference
By Tanner Battles, Communications Director, First Family Church At the close of "GO Month" focused on missions and outreach in October, First Family Church hosted a conference on multiplication called “The Matter of X.” The conference featured two international...
Southern Hills Baptist Church hosts “Good News Club” at local elementary school
By Beth Lamb Local children attend a "Good News Club" every Monday after school, at Morningside Elementary in Sioux City. Pastor Bob Dillman, four church volunteers and I teach the Club. 17 of these children are un-churched, so it is a real mission field. We gave...
Lives changed and students dedicated to lives of service at Salt Company Ames Fall Retreat
By Luke Peterson, October has likely been the busiest month of the school year so far. While we continued in our normal rhythm of Connection Groups and Thursday night gatherings, we also had our Fall Retreat this month. Our Connection Groups have seen steady growth in...
2018 Annual Meeting Report: Iowa Baptists Cast Vision for “Reaching Iowa” with the Gospel
By BCI Staff, The 2018 Baptist Convention of Iowa (BCI) Annual Meeting was held Saturday, November 10th at the Hilton Garden Inn in West Des Moines. One hundred twenty-one messengers represented 52 churches at the meeting. Keynote speaker Wes Searcy, President of Next...
Stonebridge Church reaches Boone with Trunk-or-Treat event
by Joey Weber, Associate Pastor Stonebridge Church hosted their annual Trunk-or-Treat event in Boone, reaching nearly 3,000 people. Stonebridge partnered with the Boone Chamber and Shop With A Cop to highlight their church to the community. Previously Shop With A Cop...
An invitation to discipleship at the Light Company in Grinnell
By Nate Jones "Follow me." Those are Jesus's famous words to his Disciples as he calls them into a new life with him. In the book of John he is quoted as saying "come and see" with the same purpose. In 1 Corinthians 1:11, Paul tells his readers and listeners to "Be...
LifeChange Church reaches community through “Rock the Pumpkin” event
By Chase Abner, BCI Lead Church Planting Catalyst, On October 28, LifeChange Church hosted their second annual "Rock the Pumpkin" event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds to reach out to the East Des Moines community. Over 200 visitors came from the four area elementary...
Iowa WMU hosts Hispanic Women’s Congress
The first Iowa Hispanic Women’s Congress was held on September 29, 2018, at Community Baptist Church of Marion. Forty-six women from Storm Lake, Sioux City, and Cedar Rapids attended. Three topics were covered—1) Self-esteem in women, 2) Breaking roots of bitterness...
First Family Fall Festival to Love the Ankeny Community
By Travis Walker, First Family Church, Ankeny We hold the First Family Church Fall Festival in Ankeny each October. The goal is to use the Halloween season as an opportunity for our church members to extend an invitation to our community. We desire to continue to show...
Ministry expansion and life change at the Friendship Center, Des Moines
By Joe Quick, Executive Director of the Friendship Center Throughout the year, the Friendship Center works diligently to faithfully serve this vulnerable community in a variety of needed areas. From After-School Kids Club for grades Kindergarten through 5th Grade,...
