Hearts and lives changed at Salt Company Iowa City Fall Retreat
By Shannon Ness This year has provided Jenny with a super sweet opportunity to see Jesus move in someone else's heart. Salt Company connection groups started in August, and the one she got involved with had a very small following. At first, she was worried about the...
Harvest Bible Chapel Welcomes Nick & Micaela Lees
HBC is excited to hire Nick Lees as their next Director of Discipleship & Welcome Ministries. Nick and Micaela have 4 daughters and are moving to Grimes, IA from Indiana to join the work of the Gospel there. Nick acquired his MDiv at Faith Bible Seminary in...
Service matters at the Salt Company Iowa City
By Shannon Ness, The main way that Salt students at The University of Iowa serve is by working concessions at Hawkeye football game. This month, we finished serving the last of 7 games. Like most college towns, football can be idolized in Iowa City. By serving fans at...
Thanksgiving outreach a success at Crystal Cathedral of Faith
By Pastor Willie Campbell We write to say thank you for the financial gift towards our outreach project. We had an amazing event on November 19th. Through your support, we were able to feed almost 100 people during our "We are God's Family" dinner and give away...
Seeing the harvest at Christ Point Church
By Pastor Noel Gandy, October and November in Iowa sees the conversation be dominated by one thing: the harvest. Harvest time is something special because you get to see the hard work that so many have done over the course of the past year pay off. Many who have had...
Anthem Church celebrates baptisms
By Stan Hayek, Lead Pastor Greetings from Missouri, It was great to see many familiar faces at the BCI annual meeting we attended in Ames recently. I'm reminded of all the amazing people to whom we said goodbye when we left Iowa just over a year ago to plant Anthem...
Join the ADF Church Alliance to prepare your church for the legal landscape ahead
Today, it is not a question of if churches will be threatened or sued for standing true to God’s Word – the question is solely when and where such cases will arise (Fort Des Moines Church of Christ v. Jackson). Alliance Defending Freedom, given its legal expertise and...
Trusting God in Texas – Iowa Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
By Mike Carlson During our recent call out to Liberty, Texas we were able to minister so many people. It seemed like everyone we met said, "Thank you for coming to help, we can't thank you enough." One lady stands out, she lived with her 87-year-old mother who was...
The Baptist Convention of Iowa celebrates church growth, new church starts and increased giving at the 2017 Annual Meeting
The 2017 Baptist Convention of Iowa (BCI) Annual Meeting was held on November 4th at Cornerstone Church in Ames. The annual meeting was held in conjunction with a “For the Church” Micro Conference in Partnership with Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary(MBTS). Four...
Night of Worship at The Salt Company Cedar Falls
By Brandon Blessman One of the moments this semester in which God worked in ways we would never have expected took place at our first ever, on-campus Night of Worship. Our hope for the evening was that the Spirit of God would work and move in the hearts of our...
