Gracia Burnham displays a “malong”, a long Filipino piece of fabric that the missionary used for everything from a towel to a skirt to a knapsack while in captivity with her husband, Martin. Burnham spoke to over 200 ladies at the “Anniversaries Remembered” 100-Yr Anniversary event at Immanuel Baptist Church in Wichita on June 24, [...]
The choices that Jesus gives for His disciples are only two. Either we will pray, or we will give up. Either we will pray or we will faint.
For 45 years Woodland Baptist Church has served the Lord faithfully, sharing the gospel of Christ in the north of Wichita. In the mean time, the north of Wichita has experimented a huge transformation with the arrival of many Hispanic families to our city. The Church Building located at 2835 N Woodland is now in the middle [...]
The annual HOKSBA Evangelism Rally this year will be at Country Acres Baptist Church at 6:30pm. We will also have a small mission fair before the Rally. Please contact the office if you are interested in displaying your ministry and we will reserve a table for you. The speaker this year will be Dr. Thom [...]
This year, three of us from HOKSBA churches went to Orlando Florida for and Intentional Community Evangelism event the week before the SBC convention. We worked with the ICE team, seminary students and church members to partner with 15 churches in the Orlando area to take the Gospel to the streets. During that week we [...]
Our Good Neighbor Centers are still touching lives in our community through benevolent ministries. We have seen many people coming to our centers give their lives to Christ. Our GNCs are in need of funds and food to meet the great needs in the community. The needs in Wichita are continually growing and all of [...]
God continues to bless us in this ministry. We see many lives changed at JDF and at the Boy’s ranch. Also one of our church members is ministering at the Spartan Lake Side academy where he is able to touch lives with the Gospel. I recently got clearance to help at Spartan. The ranch has [...]
The HOKSBA outreach at River Fest this year was very successful. This year we had 10 evangelists from around the country work with over 40 of our church members. We also had the Walking With Power strength team perform to approximately 800 people on a stage outside of the Metropolitan Baptist Church. The strength team [...]
As I have mentioned before, an intricate part of the Set Free ministry is to have a discipleship “ranch” to take people to after they come in off the street. They would stay there sixty plus days. The property needs to be a good distance from town, but close enough for churches to help with [...]
After the successful use of the horseshoe ministry at River Fest this year, one of our members came to me to see if we could take that ministry to the Kansas State Fair. We could have the potential to touch hundreds to thousands for Christ. There is space available at the fair. In order to [...]
This summer, HOKSBA is hosting twenty-three summer interns! With that many students working in our association, the chances are pretty good that your church will be impacted by their service.
One way to motivate mission participation is to share success stories. We have seen a great surge in participation and interest in missions and church planting the past two years in the Heart of Kansas. I would love to take some time at church meetings, small groups, or Sunday School classes to share these updates [...]
Celebrate Recovery deals with many issues. We call these issues hurts, habits and hang-ups. At the present time, we have 7 small groups that are gender specific: Men’s chemical dependency; men’s mixed issue group; women’s chemical dependency; women’s sexual abuse; women’s mixed issue group; newcomers group; and a youth group. At the present time, we [...]
The homeless ministry is hosting a 4th of July picnic at Heritage Park on Monday, July 5th from 10 am – 1 pm. They are in need of hamburger and hotdog buns as well as desserts. If you would be willing to help in any way at this event, please contact Deborah Long at 316.204.9517.
The time is drawing closer for our men’s retreat at Webster Conference Center in Salina. The theme this year is “Band of Brothers” as we continue our goal to encourage our men to be more Christ like and dedicated to family, Church and community. Our guest speaker will be Bob Mills as he shares with [...]
The special education ministry had its first annual cook out this Memorial Day weekend at Lake Afton. The response to the cookout was outstanding! We had people from all over the county attend. We missed South City Baptist Church, but hope to see them next year. Jimmy from Valley Center came with his caregiver Kay [...]
After more than two hundred years, Sunday School is still a church’s best tool for teaching the Bible, ministering to members, and reaching the lost. But your Sunday School’s effectiveness at these tasks may depend on your own expectations as a leader. Have you ever questioned – “What do we expect from the Sunday School [...]
Our HOKSBA Women’s Conference was held on April 24th at Metropolitan Baptist Church. We had 64 in attendance. The leaders in each of the conferences were Pastors wives. Everyone evaluated the conferences as good. We appreciate the Pastors wives participation very much. Alpha and Ron Goombi were our speakers. Alpha was excited by all the [...]
To see pictures of the golf tournament click here. The 10th Annual HOKSBA Fellowship Golf Tournament was held at Hesston Golf Park on Saturday, April 24th. We had 88 golfers, duffers, and hackers out for this event aimed at pulling our association together. The fellowship was absolutely GREAT! It was really a wonderful day! The [...]
The Kansas City area has been selected as one of only three locations in the United States for TRANSFORM, a training event that can make a genuine difference in your Sunday School teachers and their teaching. It is designed to lead teachers to understand what it means to have a Sunday School class with a [...]
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