Victor Thomas, The Point Church Internship at The Point Church Every year we have amazing interns join us for the summer season. It's an incredible opportunity to experience life in a new city and discover the heart God has for his people in Metro Vancouver. Throughout the two months they are with us (June and July), they experience a [...]
By Ray Gurney, pastor of Cross Creek Baptist Church 8th Annual Event Organizing and pulling off an event is not easy, especially for a small church with an aging congregation. Despite that, Cross Creek held our 8th Annual Car Show on Saturday, September 23rd. God gave us the perfect day; the blue sky and mild [...]
To My Fellow Pastors, I’m writing to invite you and your ministerial staff to join me for a free seminar luncheon on Tuesday, January 15, here at Emmanuel Baptist Church. The title of the seminar is Domestic Abuse: What Every Church Leader Should Know. The presenter, Mary Avis Pendleton, MDiv, MAC. Mary is a Licensed [...]
By Andrew H.; Team Leader The Vision of People Teams People Teams has been a ministry of BR-KC for over eight years. What started with David Elliot in a small upstairs apartment in North KC has continued through Rich Casebolt and now to Andrew H. to touch the lives of hundreds of internationals. The ministry [...]
By Nicole Brown, The Gathering Church ([email protected]) BRKC Partners With Ethiopian Church Since 2011, BRKC has partnered with a local Ethiopian church to train up church leaders, empower refugees, and bring hope of a better life to Eritreans and Ethiopians in Northern Ethiopia. Over the last six years things have really changed and grown in [...]
By Carson Conover, Campus Ministries at Longview and Blue River Community College ([email protected]) It’s difficult to adequately share about the work of God in the lives of students over the past ten years at MCC-Blue River and MCC-Longview. While it would be impossible to share every detail and story of what God has been doing [...]
By Travis Hamm, Director of Collegiate Impact and MB Collegiate Strategist ([email protected]) Looking Back With Gratefulness It is hard for me to believe, but this fall marked the beginning of our 12th year of ministry to Kansas City college students. It was the fall of 2007 that a core team of students, graduates, and ministry [...]
By Gregg Boll, Associate Director of Missions ([email protected]) Fulfilling Kingdom Ministry It has been an honor to serve alongside Dr. Hammer and the other BR-KC staff for five of the ten years we are celebrating at our Fall Semi-Annual Meeting. I never could have imagined when I left a pastorate in 2012 how meaningful and [...]
By Linda Graham, Associational WMU Director ([email protected]) The Associational WMU has two meetings every year; one in the spring and one in the fall. Our spring meeting was held on March 24th at Norfleet Baptist Church. The theme of the meeting was Family Missions with Andrew H. as the speaker. Each age level consultant gave [...]
By Jennifer Hutton, BR-KC Administrative Assistant ([email protected]) How Our Partnership Began In September of 2010, Dr. Hammer and four of our area pastors traveled to Vancouver, British Columbia to further explore the possibility of a partnership between the churches of that area and the Association. What our team found was a very beautiful, but very [...]
