by Carmen Kraus, Connection Point Church Missions Coordinator Since June of 2020, Connection Point Church has been "In the City and For the City" by taking our Love Kansas City Prayer Bus to churches in the Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association. By taking Kansas City history tours, we better know our city and how we [...]
With Covid season in full swing, we had to close our boys basketball group, but we were able to focus on what we could still do. Monday nights continued with an online Bible study with the Congolese teens who chose to join. We studied the first seven chapters of the book of Daniel and were [...]
The LORD is active among many people groups in Kansas City as He sends out laborers and draws people to Himself from all tribes and tongues. Because of the LORD's leading and investment of BR-KC, MBC, and NAMB, the People Teams ministry has been able to challenge the Greater Church in Kansas City to pray [...]
Originally printed in the Missions & Ministry July 2017 newsletter The vision of People Teams is to see reproducing disciples and churches among all of the ethnic people groups in Kansas City. This vision will require committed believers building relationships among specific people groups and making disciples. These believers will provide time, prayer, onramps, and [...]
% Non-Christian Overseas: 16.2% Believers in KC: Few Evangelical Witness: Some Population in KC: 500 Access Overseas: Easy Over 500 Polynesians live in Independence, Missouri. French Polynesia and America Samoa sit amidst many islands Northeast of New Zealand and directly Wet of South America. Despite Evangelical missionaries from London landing there as early as 1830, [...]
Have you ever tried to form a friendship with a refugee? If so, it was probably hard to find common ground between your American upbringing and their past experiences. The People Teams ministry of BR-KC put on a 4 -hour Refugee Simulation event in November that put sixty participants through a live role play following [...]
Between 350 and 500 Kurds live in Kansas City. Although traditionally Muslim, they have been persecuted all over the world. Their home, Kurdistan, inhabits parts of Iraq, and also crosses into Turkey, Syria, and Iran. Political tensions make life difficult for Kurds to survive and find jobs outside of their designated region. A small handful [...]
How are you supposed to feel about that? As a follower of Jesus, what does God want you to do? There are no simple solutions to the brokenness in our world caused by sin, but you know that God’s plan for His people involves more than looking the other way. But the answer is neither: [...]
Since January, People Teams has been discipling teens from many nations through weekly small group gatherings with Bible studies led by 8 adult mentors (mostly college students). Some of the gatherings involve basketball or soccer at Milestone gym; others just hanging out. Many of these teens attend a church in their own language, but some have no church. The kids appreciate this opportunity to [...]
The Nations in Kansas City is a prayer guide for the ethnic groups who God has moved into our city. Contact the Association office for your very own copy and start praying today! Cost is $2 per book. Or visit www.blueriver-kansascity.org/partnership-ministries/people-teams/
