When a green youth pastor named Mark Hallock accepted the pastorate of Calvary Baptist Church in Littleton, Colorado several years back, he never envisioned that he would now be the pastor who started a gospel movement of planting and replanting over 30 churches in just 10 years. He just knew that the dying declining Calvary [...]
If you needed a victory for the Kingdom for your own encouragement or to report to your church, here it is. As you know, about 13 years ago the BR-KC Churches, in partnership with the North American Mission Board and the Missouri Baptist Convention purchased a Presbyterian Church building in the Historic Northeast on Benton [...]
By Shawn Gibbs, Heart of Life Church “The work is ours. The results are the Lord’s!” This is the battle cry of a movement that is sweeping the streets of Harrisonville, Missouri. What is being called the “Adopt a Street” initiative is an act of church unity. The purpose is to fulfill the Great [...]
By Richard Nations. Printed with permission by The Pathway. When talking to Gregg Boll, there is a sense that being the leader of a diverse association of Baptist churches in the Kansas City metro is a daunting task. He stepped up to be the executive director of the Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association (BRKC) last [...]
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 [...]
The Executive Director Search Committee is pleased to announce that on October 1 at our regularly scheduled BRKC associational meeting the delegates from our BRKC churches unanimously voted to call Gregg Boll as our new Executive Director. Your search committee was made up of the following individuals: Alan Shelby, Carson Conover, Gary Jones, Luiz Mendoza, [...]
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 [...]
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 Gregg Boll Southern Baptists Take Strong Actions to Stop Sexual Abuse in Our Churches Most of you are aware that the Southern Baptist Convention has been addressing the problem of sexual abuse and assault in recent years. After an investigative report by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express revealed that over a 20-year [...]
Associate Director’s Report By Gregg Boll Pastors Retiring and the SBC’s Leadership Crisis I want to congratulate and express my deepest appreciation for several of our BR-KC pastors who have retired in the last few years after long, faithful pastorates. Forgive me if I leave anyone out, but here is the list of retiring pastors [...]
