More churches in Utah and Idaho (rather than from outside the two states) are becoming “sending” churches, Michael Cooper told attendees to UISBC’s recent annual meeting.
“We want to make Jesus nonignorable to the community around us,” Ridgway said.
It was early October, just days after Hurricane Helene produced thousand-year flood events and ravaged North Carolina’s mountainous western region.
“God’s love has poured into our church and people see that,” said Jeff Uskoski, pastor of Caribou Bible Church in Soda Springs, Idaho. “These ministries have begun from people’s wheelhouse.”
Christian Women’s Job Corps/Christian Men’s Job Corps — also known as Christian Job Corps — “equips women and men, in a Christian context, for life and employment,” according to the WMU website.
The recently released book, “From the Killing Fields to the Blessing Field,” tells of the daily bombing runs to Cambodia by the U.S. from 1969 to 1973, with 115,000 bombing sites in all.
What does it take to get a book from an idea onto the published page? Ask shy and reserved JoEllen Claypool, who started scribbling her teenaged angst into poetry.
Nathan Harden felt called by the Lord to move out west and start a ministry of construction — construction and repairs on churches and pastors’ homes. He is still working in that field today, and he will until he feels called to change.
Mike Palmer recognized the dearth of pastors and other church leaders at least 15 years ago, not quite halfway into his now 27-year pastorate at Salmon Valley Baptist Church Salmon, Idaho.
When it comes to church planting, it should begin with prayer, identifying potential leaders, training and sending them out. At least, that’s the way Risen Life Church does it — and church plants like Redeeming Life Church have benefitted.
