Cooperative Program – ‘incredibly thankful’
By Marlee Isom EDITOR'S NOTE: Sunday, April 9, is Cooperative Program Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention. PHOENIX (BP) -- Despite being raised in Baptist churches most of my life, the Cooperative Program and North American Mission Board were foreign to me....
Theology of the Gospel course offered at The Salt Company Cedar Rapids
By Jenny Calsyn, The Salt Company Coordinator This month we kicked off a new class we are offering called Theology of the Gospel. This class was written by Cornerstone in Ames and is a great resource to walk students through what the Gospel is and how it applies to...
Students growing in Christ at The Light Company Grinnell
By Abigail Ballard This month has been full of a whole new set of challenges, and blessings, that the Lord has used to grow the students of Grinnell College. Every Tuesday during Noon Prayer we have been going over the book of Daniel. We have reviewed what is means to...
Reaching out at the Salt Company Cedar Falls
By Aubrey Norville The Salt Company at the University of Northern Iowa has recently reached out to an elementary school in Waterloo, Iowa. We so desire to love and be invested in our community. We as a ministry want to get out into the community more - if we are The...
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...
