Church Planting

Church Plant Update: Overflow

By Alan Findley, Lead Pastor Saturating Our Community One of the first things you see when you step inside the building for Overflow Church (other than the smiling faces excited to greet you) is our Saturation Map. This is a visual of where our people have been placed by God all across the area… where [...]

By |2023-07-25T15:14:35-05:00July 25th, 2023|Church Planting|Comments Off on Church Plant Update: Overflow

Local Couple Answers Call to Church Planting

It is always something worthy of celebration when the Lord calls a believer from one of our BR-KC churches to vocational ministry.  It is especially noteworthy when the Lord calls them and then sends them to plant a new church in an under-churched, under-evangelized area.  Pastor Aaron Cockrum, a member of Fellowship Church, was an [...]

By |2021-02-19T14:48:46-06:00February 19th, 2021|BRKC News, Church Planting, News from the Churches|Comments Off on Local Couple Answers Call to Church Planting

MultiEthnic CPC Still Going Strong

During one of the eyeglass clinics held this year at the International Welcome Center, a lady who seemed very excited, approached me and asked me two questions: “Where did all these people who are doing the clinic come from and what encourages them to do this?” I responded, “These people come from different Baptist Churches [...]

By |2020-01-10T13:31:03-06:00January 10th, 2020|Assisting Community Transformation, BRKC News, Church Planting|Comments Off on MultiEthnic CPC Still Going Strong

A Closer Look at The Common Place Church, our Partner in Vancouver

Conrad Au is the Community Development Pastor who was raised in Coquitlam since he was 8 years old. He dreamed of a career in broadcasting, but God had other ideas. He now strives to bring Christian love to those who do not yet know Jesus, while supporting himself through employment with the Government of Canada. [...]

By |2019-08-01T14:22:21-05:00August 1st, 2019|BRKC News, Church Planting, Vancouver|Comments Off on A Closer Look at The Common Place Church, our Partner in Vancouver

Multiethnic Church Planting Center Assists Internationals in Kansas City

The last few months we have been very busy at the Multiethnic Church Planting Center-Welcome Center located in Kansas City. Our work involves developing pastors and church planters and fulfilling the needs of our community. Studying Church Growth and Training Church Leaders In the past few months,we conducted a study and analysis of church growth [...]

By |2017-11-14T13:42:05-06:00November 14th, 2017|Church Planting, Gospel Outreach|Comments Off on Multiethnic Church Planting Center Assists Internationals in Kansas City

A Mother’s Prayers Lead to Church Plant in Mexico

By Chris Houghtaling. Published in the August 2017 Missions & Ministry Newsletter.  We showed up and God showed off during our From Missouri to Mexico trip June 26th through July 3rd. Alberto prays with a woman in the market Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, a mother came to Kansas City, [...]

By |2017-08-14T14:25:06-05:00August 14th, 2017|Church Planting, Gospel Outreach|Comments Off on A Mother’s Prayers Lead to Church Plant in Mexico

Partnership Spotlight: The Point Church in Vancouver

By Victor Thomas The annual Vancouver Project held March 13-17, 2017, had over 100 students join us for a week helping us serve and do evangelism in Vancouver. We did outreach projects around several of The Point’s congregations (Burnaby Mtn, Evergreen, NextGen) during the day, then we came together for worship each evening to hear [...]

By |2017-05-25T21:14:14-05:00June 1st, 2017|Church Planting, Vancouver|Comments Off on Partnership Spotlight: The Point Church in Vancouver

Church Planter Spotlight: The Church in Waldo

By Peter Assad Pastor Peter Assad and his family - wife Grace, children Annie and Wesley, and dog Finley The Church in Waldo was launched in January, 2016 with the support of Heart of Life Church and others. We’ve had a lot of help in building what we have, so we are indebted [...]

By |2017-04-13T21:20:00-05:00April 20th, 2017|Church Planting|Comments Off on Church Planter Spotlight: The Church in Waldo

Tie a Bow on It

By Karla Rinker *This article was originally printed in the MBC's Pathway publication and was reprinted in our December 2016 edition of our Missions & Ministry Newsletter   LEE’S SUMMIT – Jesus probably would have looked dapper in a bow tie, but then, He didn’t need help standing out from the crowd. “Every day someone [...]

By |2017-03-08T11:36:01-06:00December 1st, 2016|Church Planting, Gospel Outreach|Comments Off on Tie a Bow on It

Former BR-KC Pastor Honored by MBTS

A former Blue River-Kansas City pastor was honored as the 2015/16 Alumnus of the Year for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. On June 20th, Dr. Jason Allen, president of MBTS, honored Mark Clifton, senior director of church replanting at the North American Mission Board, as this year’s honoree and recipient of the award. Clifton received a Master of Divinity degree from Midwestern in 1985. Before undertaking his role at NAMB, he served [...]

By |2017-03-08T11:36:12-06:00August 21st, 2016|Church Planting|Comments Off on Former BR-KC Pastor Honored by MBTS
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