By Gregg Boll, Executive Director of Missions In part 1 of this article, I laid out the reality and challenges facing our churches in a post-Covid, post-Christian world. We said that: 1. Membership among our SBC Churches has been on an 18-year decline. 2. While baptisms have been declining since 1999/2000 for our SBC Churches, [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions I am always keenly aware that my mission as your Director of Missions is to help our pastors start well, pastor well, and finish well. Equally important is to help our churches accomplish their God-given mission and to bring our BR-KC churches together in partnership to plant new churches [...]
By Brian Grout, Associate Director of Missions Every December, I feel the tension you probably feel too—the beauty of Christmas mixed with the busyness of ministry. The calendar fills, expectations rise, services multiply. Add family to the mix and suddenly the season that promises “peace” can feel anything but peaceful. But in the midst of [...]
By Jennifer Hutton, Chief Resource Officer, [email protected] The first residents moved into their own tiny homes at the ReHope Farms’ Cottage Community in the spring. Thanks to the generosity of so many, we have been able to purchase 12 tiny homes and a community center. Our ground has been prepped for 20 cottages, so we [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions In part 1 of this article, I will take an honest look at the health and troubling trends of membership and giving in the SBC and among our churches. In part 2, I will further describe some of the societal and spiritual reasons for the decline of our faith [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions, [email protected] If I took a survey and asked all of you if you consider yourself more emotionally and spiritually healthy than you were 10 years ago, if you were completely honest, what would you say? A few folks we know seem to have an unswerving faith, an inner fortitude [...]
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, Director of Missions I will add my voice and words to the vast array of commentary you’ve probably already seen and heard concerning Charlie Kirk’s assassination and martyrdom on a college campus in Utah. Charlie was only 31 years old and leaves behind his beautiful wife of four years and two young [...]
By Brian Grout, Associate Director of Missions Every church goes through different seasons. Some seasons bring growth, energy, and fresh vision; others bring challenges such as plateau, decline, or fatigue in ministry. In those times, church leaders often ask: How do we renew our congregation’s health and vitality? We recently relaunched our Pastor’s Huddles, and [...]
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 [...]
