FLASH Basketball Camps at First Family Church, Ankeny
By RJ Parks, Operations Director at First Family Church Throughout the summer months, you'll often find the gym at First Family Church occupied by young athletes from the community participating in our FLASH basketball camps. We recently concluded another successful...
Three Metro Churches host Upward Basketball/Soccer Camps
By John Shaull Three Upward Basketball/Soccer Camps were held at Heartland Baptist Stuart, New Bridge Winterset and Hosanna-Live, Love, Laugh during the week of July 25-29. A mission team from Knox County Baptist Association made their 9th trip to the Metro...
Central Iowa Churches share the Gospel in Peru
By John Jakes, Pastor Calvary Baptist Indianola Van Meter Baptist Church, New Bridge Church (Winterset), and Calvary Baptist Indianola sent a 10 member team to Huancane, Peru. The team left on July 20 and returned on July 29 after working with children and a new...
New Church Starts and Convention Updates
By Tim Lubinus, BCI Executive Director/Treasurer One of our key ministry areas is facilitating new church starts. Over the next month or so, five new churches will start. Please pray for these churches and pastors. New Church Starts: August 14: Frontier Church, Des...
First Family Church Ankeny celebrates a wet and wild VBS
By Tanner Battles First Family Church had an excellent week of VBS June 26-30th! Our theme was Deep Sea Discovery, and we learned that God is with us wherever we go! Over 200 kids and 100 volunteers met together each night for a time of singing, crafts, snacks, games...
Iowa WMU representatives attend Annual Meeting and Missions Celebration in St. Louis
by Joni Wilkinson, Iowa WMU Coordinator, Eleven Iowa WMU ladies from five BCI churches attended the 2016 National Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) Annual Meeting and Missions Celebration in St. Louis, Missouri, June 11-12, 2016. The highlight of the time was the...
BCI adds new Hispanic Church Planter Developer
The Baptist Convention of Iowa welcomes Arnaldo Achucarro to BCI staff. Arnaldo served as a church planter and pastor in Des Moines, Ottumwa, and Ford Dodge churches from 2008 to 2014. He and his family just returned to Iowa from starting a church in Utah. The BCI is...
Iowa Cooperative Program Giving Up 4.88%
By Tim Lubinus, BCI Executive Director/Treasurer We are pleased to report another year of increases in Cooperative Program giving among Baptist Convention of Iowa Churches. On behalf of the Baptist Convention of Iowa I want to thank you for your support of the various...
2016 Family Leadership Summit
By Denise Bubeck, THE FAMiLY LEADER About 1,000 people came to the Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center in Des Moines, Iowa, to hear messages of hope and cultural transformation at the 2016 Family Leadership Summit. Encouraged over and over that our hope is...
From Ankeny to Central Asia
By Tanner Battles, Communications Director, First Family Church, Ankeny After four years of studying at Boyce College and a year of interning at First Family Church, church planter Timur Nesbitt has headed home to Central Asia* to be a church planter. Timur grew up an...
