Join us in celebrating with Restoration House as they welcome a new Program Manager, Christine McDonald! Christine is an internationally recognized author and speaker on the social injustices facing under-served populations today. As a survivor of human trafficking, homelessness, and addiction, Christine – now blind as a result of a disease that forced her to [...]
On January 17th, BRKC partnered with KC Street Hope to host the Hope Now Freedom Gala to raise support and awareness for Restoration House, a ministry for those escaping human trafficking. The evening was a resounding success, and featured local celebrities, elegant dinner, silent auction, comedy, live music, and an inspirational message from new Restoration [...]
Welcome, September Trible, as Director of Restoration's Safe House and recovery ministry to sex trafficking survivors! September and her husband Scott live in Overland Park and are members of Antioch Church. In their former residence they were members of a Southern Baptist church. September was part of a Baptist women’s ministry where she first learned [...]
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On July 1-12, a group of 13 people from the Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association, in partnership with Noland Road Baptist Church, traveled to the Mai Ayni Refugee Camp in northern Ethiopia to work with unaccompanied minors. They partnered with an evangelical church that meets in a tent in the camp, and hosted VBS activities [...]
MAI-AINI REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia, May 4 (UNHCR) – They crossed the border at midnight, grief-stricken at the death of their daughter the previous day. Gebre’s two-year-old girl Arsama perished from the flu. The night after they buried her, Gebre, 28, and his wife Teka, 25, decided to make their way to Ethiopia. Arsama’s death was [...]
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That question was asked of Christ by a man who was trying to excuse himself of the responsibility to help those whom he did not know personally. Christ answered that question by telling him the story of The Good Samaritan. The Savior’s point was clear. If you know of someone in need and do nothing [...]
