Baptism Sunday at First Family Church, Ankeny
By Tanner Battles, God is working in the hearts of the people of First Family Church! Over the past couple months, we’ve felt an increased presence of the Holy Spirit working during our services. During that time, we had thirteen people decide that they needed to obey...
New Year New Things for ChristPoint, Shenandoah
By Noel Gandy The New Year has started off with a bang as we celebrate what the Lord is doing in Southwestern Iowa. We met with two sister churches, Calvary Baptist Church in Clarinda and Faith Baptist in Bedford to share in the first baptism for the Christ Point...
Community Southern Baptist Church, Waterloo Celebrates their 40th Anniversary
By Brenda Corey Pastor Ted Keys and the Members of Community Southern Baptist Church celebrated their 40th Church Anniversary on Friday, February 10, thru Sunday, February 12, 2017. The theme was “Praise the Lord!” with a focus Scripture of Psalm 150: “Praise Him for...
Plan Now For The Annie Armstrong Week of Prayer for North American Missions March 5-12
The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® changes lives forever by empowering North American missionaries to bring the gospel to the lost. With over 269 million lost people, North America and its major cities are some of the most spiritually dark places in the...
Football themed Men’s Conference challenges men to answer the call and finish the race
by Christopher McRae, Discipleship Team Leader "4th and Long...Trusting God to Move the Chains" was the theme of the annual event for men that the BCI promoted in cooperation with local churches. Football was on the minds of many as nationally, we turned our attention...
The Mission Field Next Door
by Diana Davis Playing in her yard, little Paula loved hearing the music at the church next door. She often peeked through the fence to watch happy people going inside. One day, a woman noticed her behind the fence and asked, “Do you want to go to church with us?” It...
Harvest Bible Chapel Planting in Ogden, Utah
By Ryan Jorgenson, Senior Pastor, HBC Grimes Over the month of January Harvest Bible Chapel in Grimes hosted church planters John & Sarah Fieck for a church planting internship. The church grew to love the Fieck family as their own before sending them off to...
No Bibles in Iowa: The Curious Case of Cedar Rapids
By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, senior writer for The Gospel Coalition Every year, the American Bible Society and Barna Group rank 100 of the nation’s most Bible-minded cities—that is, how many people read the Bible at least once a week and who strongly believe the Bible is...
Launching Light Company in Grinnell
By Abigail Ballard, Grinnell Light Company Director The first month of starting Light Company in Grinnell has been filled with bonding, smiles, tears, and encouragements for me. Having moved away from all of my friends, and everything that was comfortable, to start a...
True Bible Baptist Church hosts trip to Beth Moore Live! in Cedar Rapids
True Bible Baptist Church has reserved a 56 passenger bus for the Beth Moore Live! event in Cedar Rapids on March 17-18. The cost for this trip is $69 for registration; $63 for the bus; and $67.50 for the Hotel, which will be Hampton Inn and Suites. Each room will...
