By Carson Conover, Campus Ministries at Longview and Blue River Community College ([email protected]) It’s difficult to adequately share about the work of God in the lives of students over the past ten years at MCC-Blue River and MCC-Longview. While it would be impossible to share every detail and story of what God has been doing [...]
By Travis Hamm, Director of Collegiate Impact and MB Collegiate Strategist ([email protected]) Looking Back With Gratefulness It is hard for me to believe, but this fall marked the beginning of our 12th year of ministry to Kansas City college students. It was the fall of 2007 that a core team of students, graduates, and ministry [...]
By Gregg Boll, Associate Director of Missions ([email protected]) Fulfilling Kingdom Ministry It has been an honor to serve alongside Dr. Hammer and the other BR-KC staff for five of the ten years we are celebrating at our Fall Semi-Annual Meeting. I never could have imagined when I left a pastorate in 2012 how meaningful and [...]
By Linda Graham, Associational WMU Director ([email protected]) The Associational WMU has two meetings every year; one in the spring and one in the fall. Our spring meeting was held on March 24th at Norfleet Baptist Church. The theme of the meeting was Family Missions with Andrew H. as the speaker. Each age level consultant gave [...]
By Jennifer Hutton, BR-KC Administrative Assistant ([email protected]) How Our Partnership Began In September of 2010, Dr. Hammer and four of our area pastors traveled to Vancouver, British Columbia to further explore the possibility of a partnership between the churches of that area and the Association. What our team found was a very beautiful, but very [...]
Hello Friends, I am pleased to announce that next month is Restoration House's Face Off Against Trafficking Campaign in partnership with the KC Mavericks! The dates are December 7, 8, 21, and 31. There will be more details to come later, but I wanted to get this custom link for selling tickets and t-shirts into [...]
A New Way To Receive Updates! BR-KC is pleased to announce that we now have a group text option for you to receive all kinds of important information such as event and meeting announcements, registration links and upcoming meeting reminders. When you join our group text option you will receive no more than 3 texts [...]
By Nicole Brown; The Gathering Church Ministry in Ethiopia It is the first day of the September 2018 session of the Bible class in Shire, Ethiopia. As we approach the classroom, we can hear prayers and beautiful songs reverberating to our ears. We enter the classroom, where we see some familiar faces and some new. Upon [...]
Dr. Rodney L. Hammer, Executive Director; Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association Expressing Gratitude From left: Rodney & Debbie Hammer, Jennifer Hutton, and Gregg Boll It is a joy and privilege to serve the Lord together for the last ten years! I cannot believe that much time has transpired since Debbie, Luke and I [...]
By Travis Hamm, BR-KC Collegiate Minister and MBC Collegiate Ministry Strategist College Ministry Partnership On Tuesday, July 30th, Collegiate Impact hosted our first New Partners Training. Representatives from 7 K.C. area churches gathered to learn what it looks like to partner together in discipling college students. The evening included introductions of individuals and churches, training on how to disciple [...]
