Pastor Chane Hutton, BR-KC pastor, recently retired from South Kansas City Baptist Church (now Testimony Church) after 54 years in ministry. In his usual self-deprecating fashion, Chane often said that no one knew him, except for his wife, Jennifer, who was Administrative Assistant for BR-KC for 14 years. We hope Chane doesn’t really believe that [...]
By Ryan Biller, published with permission from the Pathway As a pastor, evangelist and full-time cowboy, Sam Anderson has spent the last fifteen years of his life in ministry working to bring the gospel to other cowboys around the globe. From a young age, Anderson knew he wanted to serve God through evangelism: "I've always [...]
By Luis M Mendoza On Thursday, February 23, under the sponsorship of BR-KC Baptist Association and The Multiethnic Church Planting Center, we held an Immigration Information Meeting at Iglesia Bautista Palabra Viva. The purpose of these gathering was threefold: First, understand the ways God wants us to treat the foreigner residing among us. Second, explaining [...]
Around 75 of our BR-KC pastors and their wives shared an evening of fun, food and entertainment last Friday evening (2/3). David Smart, professional guitarist, was the entertainment. He shared several musical numbers including some he had written. David is a Christian Music Instrumentalist of the Year recipient three times and has performed with Larnel [...]
By Michael R. Smith, Reprinted with permission by The Pathway As 2022 draws to a close Rodney Hammer, executive director of the Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association (BRKC), prepares to leave that work to move full time in 2023 into leading an organization he founded at the association - Restoration House. Restoration House, rebranded this [...]
Ministering to Newcomers Thousands of people coming from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Colombia have come to the United States in the last ten months. Some of those people have come to the Kansas City area. They have left their country for distinct reasons; some were being persecuted for the dictators of their own countries, others [...]
Question number one. “How and when did your ministry begin? “ During the crippling recession of 1981-82, I found myself out of employment. This long season of struggle to provide for my family became a great tool in Gods hand. It forced my wife, Paula, and I into a season of intense soul searching. We [...]
Written by Brian Koonce, reprinted with permission by The Pathway. During their 188th annual meeting at the St. Charles Convention Center here, Oct. 24-25, messengers of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) elected four new MBC officers. Coming from 470 Missouri Baptist churches across the state, 1,035 messengers and 226 guests attended the two-day meeting. The [...]
My starting point for ministry began at Travis Baptist Church in Corpus Christi, Texas. It was there that I found Jesus to be my Lord and Savior, being baptized in May of 1973. As a maturing teenager, I found the church facility to be my ‘2nd home’ and the church family to be an encouraging [...]
As we close out another year of ministry at BR-KC my first impression is that the last year has seen more change than any year in my nearly 10 years of service. The world emerged from Covid. Jennifer left BR-KC to work for Restoration House (REHOPE). Amy Cox became our new administrative assistant. She has [...]
