Four volunteers from Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief (IBDR) joined a team manning a feeding center in Colorado where wildfires just before New Year’s wiped out several communities in Boulder County. More than 1,000 homes were destroyed and tens of thousands were forced to evacuate. A semi-trailer mobile kitchen and a support unit were set up […]
MLS Day 3: Leaders pray for personal renewal and gospel advance at Midwest summit
Worship was warm on a morning when temperatures were in the single digits in Springfield. But most of the attenders at the Midwest Leadership Summit are used to cold weather—colder that this. The session concluded the three-day event that drew 850 church leaders from twelve states to Illinois for the biennial conference. South Dakota Church […]
MLS Day 2: Lifeway’s Mandrell urges ‘fierce optimism’ at Midwest summit
“I need some fellowship for sure,” said one pastor on arrival at the Midwest Leadership Summit. Others said they came to the three-day event in Springfield for ministry ideas, for training as leaders, and to be charged up by good preaching. It happened. It all happened. “It’s good to be here, where people drink ‘pop’ […]
MLS Day 1: Litton salutes Midwest leaders at biennial summit
As nearly 1,000 church leaders from the Midwest convened in Illinois, Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton saluted organizers and those in attendance for the unique regional event, before speaking briefly about pressures facing the convention. “You’re a testimony to the nation,” Litton said. “If all our regions would be so united together to perfect […]
Midwest leaders to convene in Illinois
More than 1,000 leaders from SBC churches in the Midwest are registered for a leadership gathering in Illinois next week. The Midwest Leadership Summit convenes in Springfield January 18-20, bringing together representatives from twelve states and nine Baptist state conventions. “Southern Baptist churches in the north have unique challenges and opportunities,” said Nate Adams, Executive […]
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