Summer Missions at Christ Point, Shenandoah
By Pastor Noel Gandy Greetings from Christ Point! In April, we celebrated one year of moving to Iowa. The first year of ministry here has been a whirlwind! We arrived in Iowa on April 24, 2016 and the wheels have been turning ever since. It has been with the wonderful...
Harvest Bible Chapel Hosts Record High Five VBS Week
By Ryan Jorgenson, Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel God has done great work at Harvest Bible Chapel in the Grimes, IA area July 19-23 as they held their new VBS version called High Five. They saw attendance from last year nearly double with 110 kids attending and a...
Student Leaders raised up at Salt Company Cedar Falls
By Hailey Koerperich, Freshman Women's Ministry Leader At 10:02 every day, phone alarms are going off throughout the Candeo Church building. Luke 10:2 declares that “the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few” and that earnest prayers to the Lord of the...
EC Young Leaders Advisory Council Seeks Input
by Roger S. Oldham Many younger pastors highly value both the name “Cooperative Program” and the ministries funded through CP, according to the “2017 SBC EC Young Leaders Advisory Council Survey.” Released in March and slated to conclude in early August, the survey is...
My First SBC Annual Meeting
by Todd Stiles, Lead Pastor, First Family Church, Ankeny I grew up in an “independent, fundamental, Bible-believing” church. Personally, it was very good for me and, though that phrase has a legalistic, controlling ring to it when it rolls off the tongue, I benefitted...
A New Chapter for the Jamisons and the Friendship Baptist Center
by Jon Jamison, Co-Director, Friendship Baptist Center Friends and Ministry Partners, We need to make an announcement that impacts the Friendship Center. On July 1, for the first time since 1999, we will no longer be the Directors of the Friendship Baptist Center. A...
Hungry & Homeless Outreach in Des Moines
By Jon "Ole" Olsen, Administrative Pastor, Crestwood Baptist Church Crestwood Baptist Church in the Drake neighborhood of Des Moines hosts a Hungry and Homeless Outreach every Wednesday evening providing a meal for forty to sixty needy in the area. It is not only the...
Amazing School Year at Salt Company Cedar Rapids
We can’t believe Salt Company is done for the school year. It has been an amazing year where we got to see God do things we could never even imagine or do on our own. This month has included our last two Thursday night gatherings and our leadership team celebration....
Neal McRae Accepts Call as Associate Pastor at Crest Baptist Church
Crest Baptist Church is excited to announce the call of Neal McRae as Associate Pastor as of June 1. Pastor Chuck Spindler commented, “In the 50+ years of Crest’s ministry, this is the first time a second full-time staff member has served here. It is exciting to see...
Start planning your Vacation Bible School Today
Every summer from kindergarten through sixth grade I attended Vacation Bible School at my family's church in Dermott, AR. In full disclosure, I actually attended a few weeks of VBS in our small town at different churches. See, I LOVED VBS when I was a kid. And I'm...
