Iowa Baptists are “redeploying” their Disaster Relief, announced Iowa DR Coordinator Gared Shaffer during their annual meeting Nov. 1–2 at First Family Church in Ankeny. Shaffer shared the success of recent training and deployments …
“If we don’t start, we’re not going to do anything,” said Paul Colton, pastor of mobilization and sending at Calvary Church, Clearwater, Florida.
Generations Church — a recently established church plant in Cedar Falls, Iowa — recently experienced “a remarkable event” — a “Family Outdoor Baptism Service” that celebrated new birth through faith in Christ.
For the second straight year, baptisms and giving increased among Southern Baptist congregations. In-person worship service and small group attendance also rebounded, but total membership
As fall fast approaches, so does this year’s slate of state Baptist annual meetings. With budget reports, officer elections, ministry updates, resolutions, motions on various
A church in Ames, Iowa, is grieving after a gunman fatally shot two female victims and then himself in the church parking lot Thursday night
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission recently announced the donation of an ultrasound machine to the Agape Pregnancy Resource Center in Des
One of the big community events in the small town of Lenox, Iowa, is the Steel on Wheels Car Show. Country Roads Baptist Church in
From police officer to church trumpet player to volunteer fire department chaplain to mother of six children, Danielle Cook, a member of Enville Baptist Church,
Weeklong soccer camps in three different Iowa cities — Marshalltown, Waterloo and Perry — provided soccer instruction, snacks and a daily gospel message to about
