The last few months we have been very busy at the Multiethnic Church Planting Center-Welcome Center located in Kansas City. Our work involves developing pastors and church planters and fulfilling the needs of our community. Studying Church Growth and Training Church Leaders In the past few months,we conducted a study and analysis of church growth [...]
By Travis Hamm, Impact Ministries at UMKC and Kansas City Collegiate Strategist ([email protected]). Edited by Britney Hamm. I once heard a pastor describe the process of conversion and discipleship as a tick...tick...tick...BOOM! cycle that continues throughout someone's life. The "ticks" represent all the small, seemingly insignificant steps, realizations, and awakenings that lead to the "BOOM" [...]
What a great spirit was evident among nearly 200 people from Association churches gathered on October 1 in Oak Grove, Missouri. Four Oak Grove churches worked together to host this fall’s semi-annual celebration. First Baptist Church of Oak Grove hosted the supper, BBQ and chili cook-off contest. Paradise Outfitter Ministries provided a unique meeting space [...]
KANSAS CITY – The Restoration House of Greater Kansas City and the Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association endorse The Housing for Survivors of Sex Trafficking Act (HR 3942), a bill that will assist trafficking victims gaining crucial grand funding to restart their lives. The bipartisan legislation was introduced to the House in early October. The [...]
