The fall Semi-Annual Meeting met for the 38th Year of the Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association. The meeting was held at Abundant Life Baptist Church in Lee’s Summit. Dr. Rodney Hammer interviewed Pastor Luis Sanchez from Primera Iglesia Bautista de Independence, asking how he was called to the ministry and got into church planting as [...]
In September of 2018, we found ourselves at a crossroads at Immanuel Baptist Church. Even though our building sits on a busy major thoroughfare in Independence, MO, we had continued to see numbers dwindle on Sundays and our connection to our community grow ever more distant. The leadership team found themselves in the unenviable role [...]
After several years of not having a dedicated Disaster Relief Team, BR-KC is now back in the DR ministry. The unified efforts of all the State Baptist Disaster Relief teams makes Southern Baptists the third largest Disaster Relief provider in the world. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams show up at nearly every major disaster in [...]
About a year ago Norfleet Baptist Church received a call from a young mother from a nearby neighborhood... She was looking for a place that could host her youngest daughter’s first birthday party. It was going to be a grand party since the little girl was a testament to the power of prayer. There was [...]
Conrad Au is the Community Development Pastor who was raised in Coquitlam since he was 8 years old. He dreamed of a career in broadcasting, but God had other ideas. He now strives to bring Christian love to those who do not yet know Jesus, while supporting himself through employment with the Government of Canada. [...]
Associate Director, Gregg Boll, recently explained some changes that BR-KC will make to further encourage and equip our pastors. Through conversations with our churches and pastors and because of recent opportunities which have presented themselves, BR-KC will be reshaping our ministry to churches and pastors this fall. In the past we have offered a quarterly [...]
You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. -Matthew 5:14 What an amazing picture of truth that Jesus paints for his disciples found in this passage of Matthew. This is a truth that energizes the people of New City-Loma Vista, once known as Loma Vista [...]
How does your church welcome a guest or first-time visitor? According to a study done by LifeWay, the majority of churches look for multiple ways to connect with visitors which can sometimes be challenging. Some visitors want to remain anonymous while others are happy to leave a record of their visit. In recent years, a [...]
Manna Fellowship's Pantry Introduces Bread of Life to Pleasant Hill Community by Mitch Shiffer reprinted with permission from The Pathway and edited for length In Exodus 16, God fed the Israelites with bread from heaven. He fed them with manna. In Northwestern Cass County, Manna Fellowship Church feeds the needy with the love of Christ—and [...]
by Geoffrey Arbuckle, President First, greetings to all of you, my brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. It is a privilege to be able to write this note of thanks and gratitude for all that you have done, continue to do, and will do moving forward, in support of our faith-based mission to heal and [...]
