The Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) team at NAMB is seeking college students to serve this summer
by Susan Peugh, Volunteer Coordinator Disaster Relief, North American Mission Board Our goal is to identify, train and develop young adults to respond to Disaster Relief ministries throughout the summer months of June and July of 2016. The students will be assigned to...
Attendance at BCI Churches Increases Fourteen Percent in 2015
By Tim Lubinus, BCI Executive Director/Treasurer We are just finishing the Baptist Convention of Iowa (BCI) annual statistical reports and have much good news to report. The main number that I wait for each year is the number of worshippers, the weekly attendance in...
Pastors and Wives’ Retreat “The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision”
April 1-2,2016 Stoney Creek Hotel and Conference Center, Johnston Featured Speaker: Dr. Owen Strachan Topic: The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision Registration Fee per Couple: $50 Register on-line for the Pastors & Wives Retreat. ONE Women’s...
Remember these five things during this presidential election season
By Ronnie Floyd During this pivotal year of electing the next President of the United States, we need to be wise with our words and actions. There is much passion rising in America during this season. These are serious times. It is in the air. We sense it, feel it,...
Fun & games and transformed lives at the Salt Company Iowa City
by Shannon Ness, The Salt Company Iowa City Coordinator At the last Salt Company of the Fall semester, two students darted straight towards the Info Table after Salt. They were so excited to express how much they loved Salt Company. Out of the blue, the decided to...
Bags packed by love
By K. Faith Morgan Since 2001, Appalachian Regional Ministries (ARM), a ministry of the North American Mission Board (NAMB), has collected and distributed over 140,000 Christmas backpacks and boxes filled with toys, school supplies and other gifts. All of those gifts...
DR volunteers still serving after Midwest flood
by Tobin Perry ST. LOUIS (BP) -- A month after heavy Midwest rains created historic flooding that damaged hundreds of homes and killed at least two dozen people along the Mississippi River, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief will wrap up relief jobs this week and begin...
Church retirement plan clarification law good news for GuideStone, Southern Baptists
By Roy Hayhurst DALLAS — Legislation signed into law in December will have a positive impact for both those who participate in and those who operate church retirement plans. Provisions of the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015, commonly referred to as the...
Welcoming the stranger
from ethnéCITY, a collaborative conversation hosted by IMB. America is a nation of immigrants. Check out these two quotes below from two of our founding fathers. Sounds like something out of the headlines today, doesn’t it? “The bosom of America is open to receive...
He is no fool! Men’s Conference recap
by Chris McRae, BCI Discipleship Team Leader Along with four other young men, Jim Elliot waited on the banks of the Curaray River deep in the rain forest of central Ecuador to make contact with members of a tribe of natives who had been cut off from modern...
