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 Martha Aligaz and Melete Ghile James 1:27 (NIV) “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” This is a story of six, which later became seven, children ranging in age from [...]
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 [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions In last month’s newsletter, we started the conversation about pastors, or anyone for that matter, preparing for retirement. Since not all pastors plan to retire, we said the article could be titled, “Are You Living and Planning Today in Such a Way that is Preparing You Financially for the [...]
I heard the comment recently that someone measured the distance Paul traveled by land and sea on his missionary journeys and came up with around 10,000 miles he covered preaching the gospel and starting churches. But the next comment is what grabbed me; in those 10,000 miles of travel, we never read a single verse [...]
Are You Prepared for Retirement, Pastor? (Part 1) Gregg Boll: Director of Missions If you think this question is none of my business, then skip to the next article. If you think retirement is an unbiblical concept and you intend to work as many years as your health will allow, you should still read this. [...]
By Gregg Boll In this first article I want to address cooperation and unity around the gospel. In the next newsletter (Part 2) I plan to share some of the decisions made during this year’s SBC Annual Meeting and the impact upon faith and practice in our churches. Every year in June, representatives we call [...]
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 [...]
