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 [...]
Other than it being a Chief’s game night, everything else was perfect for our fall Semi-Annual Meeting on October 1. The Road Church members and Elders Dale Smith and Charles Ackman were gracious hosts in their newly constructed church. It really is a beautiful facility, and we appreciate them being so hospitable. Several ministries were [...]
By Gregg Boll, Associate Director of Missions The 2023 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting Highlights (Part 2) I encourage you to read part 1 in last month’s newsletter about the value of Cooperation in the SBC, if you haven’t already. In this article I want to zero in on the action of the messengers that [...]
By Chris Williams, Senior Pastor at Fellowship Church Fellowship Church’s story can be summed up in three words. ”Beauty from Ashes.” In 2011 we began as a legacy church plant in a donated facility with a few amazing folks. It was in those early days the Lord began to build the desire within our church [...]
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 [...]
By Tim Goulet, Worship & Student Pastor at LifeQuest Zechariah 4:10 tells us to “not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin.” LifeQuest Church began in the heart of Chris and Linda Pinion as a small Bible study. On April 20th, 2003, they jumped in with both feet and [...]
Around 75 of our BR-KC pastors and their wives shared an evening of fun, food and entertainment last Friday evening (2/3). David Smart, professional guitarist, was the entertainment. He shared several musical numbers including some he had written. David is a Christian Music Instrumentalist of the Year recipient three times and has performed with Larnel [...]
By Angelica Carpenter, MWMU, Reprinted with permission by The Pathway At the April 2022 Missouri Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) Missions Celebration, Baptist Homes and Healthcare Ministries sponsored a meal for attending conference leaders, board members and guests. As Ron Mackey, Vice President for Community Engagement, shared about the plans for expansion and ministries happening at [...]
By Michael R. Smith, Reprinted with permission by The Pathway As 2022 draws to a close Rodney Hammer, executive director of the Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association (BRKC), prepares to leave that work to move full time in 2023 into leading an organization he founded at the association - Restoration House. Restoration House, rebranded this [...]
Lindy Reed, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Blue Springs, is excited to see what is happening among his congregation. "We are having baptisms every week," he said, "and in addition to new people, four other pastors are members of the church." Reed reported that retired pastors John Holt, Bob McCutcheon, and Dan Griffin [...]
