Ken Schultz hadn’t performed in nearly a year when he dusted off his suspenders for a mission trip to Africa. The pastor of Crosswinds Church in Plainfield and long-time entertainer recently traveled to Kenya with a mission team to share the gospel with schoolkids. Schultz wowed the crowd with juggling feats and sleight of hand […]
Missions
2021 Forecast: Use ‘gap analysis,’ small-scale missions to help people looking for hope
Editor’s note: For the January 1 issue of the Illinois Baptist, IBSA leaders shared their thoughts on the challenges and opportunities facing the church in 2021. Carmen Halsey, IBSA director of leadership development In 2021, churches have a pivotal role as communities recover and rebuild. They will be the bridges that carry hurting people to […]
Illinois Disaster Relief delivers $1.5 million in food and goods
Editor’s note: This story was updated Feb. 2 with additional information and statistics from 2020. Across Illinois | Just as the semi-truck full of food pulled into the parking lot at Second Baptist Church, the skies opened up, said Pastor Chris Sedabres. Even as the rain poured down, people came to the church to receive […]
Annual offering takes the gospel to unreached groups
Editor’s note: The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and Week of Prayer for International Missions is Nov. 29-Dec. 7. Anim* remembers the day when an old fortune teller told her mother that Anim had the gift of sight. “My mother and my grandmother were both fortune tellers,” she said, “so my mom wasn’t surprised when the […]
How sharing Christ overseas changed a church
This January, I got to watch God move again in a way that brings so much joy to this pastor’s heart. I was on the dusty, noisy street on the edge of a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, with two Kenyans who served as our translators and two church members from Immanuel in Benton, Brad and […]
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