By Travis and Britney Hamm, Directors of Collegiate Impact ([email protected]) The semester is off to a fruitful start for Collegiate Impact as we seek to bring the hope and peace of Jesus to college students in Kansas City. On August 16, we launched the semester with an all-day Core Team Training. For the first time [...]
By Gregg Boll, Executive Director of Missions Early in my ministry, I attended the annual Missouri Baptist Evangelism Conference. One of the featured speakers was a pastor from South County, St. Louis named Phillip Hunter. Phillip’s church had experienced more than 200 baptisms in the prior year, and the majority of those baptisms were new [...]
My name is Kaitlynn King, and I serve as a ministry apprentice for Collegiate Impact at the UMKC campus. Every Thursday at 6pm we invite UMKC students, Christian and non-Christian students, to a house near campus to enjoy fellowship and a free dinner. This serves the campus with both spiritual and physical needs while creating [...]
July 11, 2021 will be a day forever noted in the history of a small island country just 90 miles from the Southern tip of Florida. Cuba - so near, yet so closed off. Mysterious and often unthought of by most Americans. This day, the people, with nothing to lose but their life, made their [...]
by Carson Conover, Campus Ministries at Longview and Blue River Community College Global Project 2020 Community college ministry is uniquely challenging in a number of ways. But, this kind of ministry also has its benefits. For example, students don’t leave for the summer which presents an opportunity to train and equip student leaders for the [...]
by Travis Hamm For those who may be unaware, Collegiate Impact is a network of local churches and on-campus ministries working together to bring the gospel to over 70,000 Kansas City area college students from 17 colleges. Just like other ministries and churches, we have had to navigate the challenges of Covid-19. Last March all [...]
The heartbeat of Grace and Truth Baptist Church runs along the rails of our discipleship ministry. We have an objective of making every member of our local church a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ. For that reason, the ministries of our church are centered in allowing our membership to actively be involved in ministry [...]
About a year ago Norfleet Baptist Church received a call from a young mother from a nearby neighborhood... She was looking for a place that could host her youngest daughter’s first birthday party. It was going to be a grand party since the little girl was a testament to the power of prayer. There was [...]
By Joey Candillo, Pastor of Grace Church in Independence Labor Day weekend is traditionally a low-attendance Sunday. This year we started a new annual Labor Day tradition. Instead of our weekly worship service, we spent Sunday morning serving the community. We met at the church at 9am and had breakfast. At 9:30am we prayed and divided up into teams [...]
The children of Spring Valley Baptist and their teachers have designed bookmarks that have been laminated to sell for a dollar each to make money to buy goats through World Vision to end hunger and human trafficking. We will offer a World Vision magazine to each person who buys a bookmark. TIME April 28, 10:00am [...]
