By Martha Aligaz and Melete Ghile James 1:27 (NIV) “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” This is a story of six, which later became seven, children ranging in age from [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions Creating a culture of evangelism in your church was the theme of this year’s spring semi-annual meeting. Dr. Gary Kendall shared an exciting evangelism tool for mobilizing your members to live missionally in their neighborhoods called Bless Every Home. An especially nice feature of this ministry is that there [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions In last month’s newsletter, we started the conversation about pastors, or anyone for that matter, preparing for retirement. Since not all pastors plan to retire, we said the article could be titled, “Are You Living and Planning Today in Such a Way that is Preparing You Financially for the [...]
Christmas and the New Year are fast approaching. It’s that time of the year which gives us the opportunity to pause, take a deep breath, enjoy family, and watch some ball games. I pray you have a Merry Christmas! I am excited about beginning a new year as your Director of Missions and the many [...]
In January 2023, Bill Denman from Sterling Acres approached Pastor Travis Yeargans, Sr., from River’s Edge Fellowship about a potential merger. After much prayer and discussion with the River’s Edge elders, they decided to present the idea to the congregation. The congregation excitedly approved the idea and the discussion to merge began in earnest. Just [...]
I have good news to share, BRKC! By God’s grace: In August, we added 2 new Ministry Apprentices to our staff team: Kaitlynn King (UMKC) and Caleb Fain (Maple Woods). We have a gospel ministry presence on 8 Kansas City area campuses this year. In the first weeks of the fall semester, our staff and [...]
We hope you’ll mark your calendars right now for our BR-KC Semi-Annual Meeting at The Road Church (4108 S Buckner-Tarsney Rd, Grain Valley MO) on October 1, 5pm-8 pm as it promises to be an especially crucial and engaging evening. I have invited pastor Jeremy Conrad to share the Calvary Family of Churches story. It [...]
By Gregg Boll, Associate Director of Missions The 2023 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting Highlights (Part 2) I encourage you to read part 1 in last month’s newsletter about the value of Cooperation in the SBC, if you haven’t already. In this article I want to zero in on the action of the messengers that [...]
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 Chris Williams, Senior Pastor at Fellowship Church Fellowship Church’s story can be summed up in three words. ”Beauty from Ashes.” In 2011 we began as a legacy church plant in a donated facility with a few amazing folks. It was in those early days the Lord began to build the desire within our church [...]
