By Joey Candillo, Pastor of Grace Church in Independence Labor Day weekend is traditionally a low-attendance Sunday. This year we started a new annual Labor Day tradition. Instead of our weekly worship service, we spent Sunday morning serving the community. We met at the church at 9am and had breakfast. At 9:30am we prayed and divided up into teams [...]
Have you ever wished that you could improve your public speaking skills? Or wondered how bivocational pastors find the time to improve their communication skills? Then this course is for you! Presented by Wayne Geiger, pastor and doctoral student at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, this course is designed specifically for bivocational preachers and teachers to equip [...]
By Travis Hamm, BR-KC Collegiate Minister and MBC Collegiate Ministry Strategist There’s always so much going on in our ministry, and if you are like me, it’s easy to just go from one thing to the next without stopping. In my e-newsletters I try to give you a glimpse into the ministry by offering some highlights of [...]
Normal Pastor Conference_Aug 10-11
Calvary Baptist Church Independence Memorial Christian Education Center Calvary Baptist Church is excited to announce its initial Contextualized Leadership Development (CLD) education course offerings for 2018. These classes are being offered in conjunction with Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and can be used for undergraduate college credit up to 24 hours towards an undergraduate degree. There [...]
By Pastor Chris Hicks and Pastor Gary Jones Greater Kingdom advancement is what is happening here in the Midwest. On Easter Sunday April 1, The U Church merged with Belvidere Heights Baptist Church. The U Church, an African-American congregation led by Pastor Gary Jones and Belvidere Heights, led by Pastor Chris Hicks, have joined together [...]
Dear Pastors/Staff, Recently, we became aware that Dan Southerland, pastor of Westside Family Church in Lenexa was transitioning toward retirement. Dan is a Kingdom-minded, Kingdom-expanding pastor who has planted 19 churches in the Greater KC area and over 200 house churches overseas. He has a passion to continue mentoring and consulting with pastors and church [...]
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 [...]
The children of Spring Valley Baptist and their teachers have designed bookmarks that have been laminated to sell for a dollar each to make money to buy goats through World Vision to end hunger and human trafficking. We will offer a World Vision magazine to each person who buys a bookmark. TIME April 28, 10:00am [...]
