A former Blue River-Kansas City pastor was honored as the 2015/16 Alumnus of the Year for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. On June 20th, Dr. Jason Allen, president of MBTS, honored Mark Clifton, senior director of church replanting at the North American Mission Board, as this year’s honoree and recipient of the award. Clifton received a Master of Divinity degree from Midwestern in 1985. Before undertaking his role at NAMB, he served [...]
River’s Edge Fellowship is a church plant located in Raytown. Our plant is urban-focused, having the goal of reaching marginalized people in the Kansas City, Missouri metro. We replanted this year after being a campus of Lenexa Baptist for around two years. We are currently located in one of the oldest suburbs of Kansas City with a growing urban identity and minority population. With [...]
Each quarter, the BR-KC Baptist Association gives away over $29,000 to assist churches in their efforts to impact their community and the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. This money is provided by the Vision 2020 Grant Fund, made possible by the sale of the Association’s Mission Center in 2014. During the fourth quarter [...]
Manna Fellowship came to Belton, Missouri via a slight detour from Africa. In 2013, Pastor Rick Friesen left the staff of a vibrant suburban church to answer God’s call to missions. Although he lives in the Kansas City area, Rick has traveled the nation and the globe to raise funds and awareness to combat Africa’s [...]
In the late summer of 2014, God called us to plant a Gospel driven church in the Kansas City area. At the time, I lived in the Wichita, KS area. I had lived and pastored in the KC area for many years prior to that. Some friends in this area also sensed God leading them [...]
Why church planting? Because the majority of the people we look in the eye every day live without the hope of salvation. They are, as Jesus said, “harassed and helpless.” Jesus had compassion on the people, and he told his disciples to pray for more workers to bring the Good News of the Kingdom to [...]
The new library for refugees in the Shimelba Camp Dr.’s Indrias and Hadaway teaching at the Shire Bible School Since last year we have seen the Lord do amazing things in and through our churches, individually and collectively. Three of those collective accomplishments are opening Restoration House of Greater Kansas City, [...]
