We hope you’ll mark your calendars right now for our BR-KC Semi-Annual Meeting at The Road Church (4108 S Buckner-Tarsney Rd, Grain Valley MO) on October 1, 5pm-8 pm as it promises to be an especially crucial and engaging evening. I have invited pastor Jeremy Conrad to share the Calvary Family of Churches story. It [...]
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 Alan Findley, Lead Pastor Saturating Our Community One of the first things you see when you step inside the building for Overflow Church (other than the smiling faces excited to greet you) is our Saturation Map. This is a visual of where our people have been placed by God all across the area… where [...]
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 [...]
Pastor Chane Hutton, BR-KC pastor, recently retired from South Kansas City Baptist Church (now Testimony Church) after 54 years in ministry. In his usual self-deprecating fashion, Chane often said that no one knew him, except for his wife, Jennifer, who was Administrative Assistant for BR-KC for 14 years. We hope Chane doesn’t really believe that [...]
By Ryan Biller, published with permission from the Pathway As a pastor, evangelist and full-time cowboy, Sam Anderson has spent the last fifteen years of his life in ministry working to bring the gospel to other cowboys around the globe. From a young age, Anderson knew he wanted to serve God through evangelism: "I've always [...]
By Gregg Boll Southern Baptists Take Strong Actions to Stop Sexual Abuse in Our Churches Most of you are aware that the Southern Baptist Convention has been addressing the problem of sexual abuse and assault in recent years. After an investigative report by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express revealed that over a 20-year [...]
Associate Director’s Report By Gregg Boll Pastors Retiring and the SBC’s Leadership Crisis I want to congratulate and express my deepest appreciation for several of our BR-KC pastors who have retired in the last few years after long, faithful pastorates. Forgive me if I leave anyone out, but here is the list of retiring pastors [...]
