Impact means having a powerful influence or strong effect produced by an action, idea, or event. Lenexa Baptist Church has held over 80 Impact events since 2017, both locally around KC and around the country. While they have had great success, they wanted to partner with other churches to train in the process and make [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions If you missed part 1 you can read it here: https://blueriver-kansascity.org/?p=11013&preview=true 2. Forming mission partnerships and sending people from your church will result in more of your members being fully discipled to maturity in Christ; it becomes one of the church’s primary means of equipping the saints for the [...]
Kansas City hosted six World Cup Games throughout June and July, drawing over 413,000 to the games and another 400,000 to the Fan Fest at the World War I Memorial grounds. Four teams chose the KC metro as their official base camp during the games. People from all over the world visited Kansas City, and [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions Many of our BR-KC Churches have ongoing partnerships with churches and mission agencies in other states and overseas. My observation is that these churches are healthier and produce more fully rounded disciples, future pastors, and missionaries than those churches that don’t. So, why should it be unthinkable for a [...]
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 [...]
