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...
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...
