By Jennifer Hutton, Chief Resource Officer, [email protected] The first residents moved into their own tiny homes at the ReHope Farms’ Cottage Community in the spring. Thanks to the generosity of so many, we have been able to purchase 12 tiny homes and a community center. Our ground has been prepped for 20 cottages, so we [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions We would like to have your church join us in prayer for our city and the entire metro area. The Scriptures admonish us to pray for our nation, our city, and our governing leaders. (II Chronicles 7:13-14, Jeremiah 29:7, I Timothy 2:1-3; See the bottom of the article for [...]
By Brian Koonce, reprinted with permission by The Pathway Ministry involved glitz and glamor for one night, on Jan. 25, as ReHope hosted its 11th annual fundraising gala to support its services to survivors of human trafficking. ReHope, a faith-based ministry formerly known as Restoration House, was originally an effort of Blue River-Kansas City Baptist [...]
By Vicki Stamps, Printed with permission by The Pathway Trafficked women need support to survive and to be restored. ReHope, a faith-based ministry formerly called Restoration House and founded out of the Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association (BRKC), provides that support and encouragement. “We have two facilities,” Jason Alvis, ReHope Chief Executive Officer, said. “We [...]
A member of Grace Point Baptist Church has held a burden for a local community, Ruskin Heights, for years. This district hosts many vulnerable families, and is generally a low-income, high crime rate area. In his prayer walks with a team he gathered throughout the community, he got connected to a church within the neighborhood, [...]
We fight for a vision to see the eradication of trafficking. Can you see it? Can you see a world where the demand for the buying of sex and the trafficking of persons was as culturally unacceptable as smoking on airplanes? What if the legalized sex industry…the strip clubs, illicit massage parlors, “adult only” bookstores, [...]
by Brian Koonce, Printed in The Pathway, December 14th, reprinted with permission KANSAS CITY – After they had to postpone their eyeglasses clinic this spring, Luis Mendoza, pastor of Iglesia Bautista Palabra Viva (Living Word Baptist Church), didn’t know what to expect for their November attempt. Aware that crowds would be a problem, he was reluctant [...]
by Carmen Kraus, Connection Point Church Missions Coordinator Since June of 2020, Connection Point Church has been "In the City and For the City" by taking our Love Kansas City Prayer Bus to churches in the Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association. By taking Kansas City history tours, we better know our city and how we [...]
The recently-formed BR-KC Disaster Relief Team is off to a busy start. In just a little over a year, the team has spent time in Missouri, Iowa and Louisiana, When disaster strikes, people are fearful, traumatized and vulnerable. The following is a snapshot of just a few people who have been helped by our team: People [...]
KANSAS CITY – Pathway freelancer Britney Lyn Hamm captures hope through trauma in a novel inspired by her work with a Missouri Baptist ministry to victims of human trafficking. “It’s a story of God’s redemption and freedom and not for the faint of heart,” said Hamm, author of the Christian romance/suspense novel Finding Freedom. “It deals with raw human [...]
