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Heart of Kansas Southern Baptist Association 11th Annual Fellowship Golf Tournament Saturday, April 30, 2011 at Hesston Golf Park Tee Time: 8:30 a.m. (check-in 7:30 – 8:00) Regular Scramble Format Cost is $55.00/person (includes: golf, cart, range balls, lunch, prizes) Lunch will be served at the golf course immediately following tournament. Lots of Quality Prizes [...]
If I were designing a memory verse competition for international students it would probably go something like this. “Choose a verse or a passage that is meaningful to you. Memorize it in your first language, and then share it with me when you have it memorized.” If an international student were to design a memory [...]
J. Oswald Sanders in his book “Spiritual Discipleship” says, “The temper of our times is for instant gratification and short-term commitment-quick answers to prayer and quick results with a minimum of effort and discomfort.” In recovery, people are looking for quick fixes with very little commitment. This is true in all forms of “hurts, habits [...]
Even though we are months from the state fair our planning and preparation is in full swing. We still have a challenge to get 6,000 or so horse shoes pre-stamped with John 3:16. Please take time to pray for this ministry and the planning and preparation it takes. Pray specifically for all the details in [...]
Our Good Neighbor Centers are still touching lives in our community through benevolent ministries. We have seen numerous of the people coming to our centers give their lives to Christ. Our GNCs are in need of funds and food to meet the great needs out there. The needs in Wichita are continually growing and all [...]
With another trip from our friends at Walnut BC in Jonesboro, Ark we are really close to finishing up the Set Free house. All of the mudding, painting and trim work is done. We still have a little finishing and small stuff to do. We have bought and received all the carpet and tiling and [...]
It is just over 3 months before River Fest. We are making the plans and gathering material for all the activities that we will be doing. This year we will focus on the horse shoe ministry and street witnessing. We also plan on a small block party and some food. Please start praying for this [...]
God continues to bless us in this ministry. We see many lives changed at JDF and at the Boy’s ranch and the Spartan Lake Side Academy/Camelot We are doing church services, bible studies, one on one chaplain visits and other activities to reach these youth for Christ. Please continue to pray for this ministry and [...]
The Rose Bowl parade outreach this year was very exciting. Three of us drove straight through from Wichita to Pasadena with the van full of the horse shoe ministry equipment. We had over 800 horse shoes, 4 anvils and supplies. It was the first time we used the horse shoe ministry at an event like [...]
The annual HOKSBA Evangelism Rally this year will be at Midway Baptist church at 6:30 on August 28. We will also have a small mission fair before the Rally. Please contact the association office if you are interested in displaying your ministry and we will reserve a table for you. The speaker at this year’s [...]
Ladies, mark your calendar for April 16th for our Heart of Kansas Women’s Conference at Metropolitan Baptist Church. It is from 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. with a pot luck brunch. We will have 8 conferences that you can choose from. Susan Heck will be our conference speaker. Susan is from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is [...]
And with the summer is the opportunity for summer interns to serve with HOK. If you have students who are graduating this year from High School, or who are in college, who would like to serve as summer missionaries, we have an opportunity. HOK Summer Interns who qualify through the North American Mission Board will [...]
Every Monday night, 17 people from 4 different Hispanic Southern Baptist churches gather to study the word of God at the HOKSBA building. “BEREA Training Center” started just as a dream of the Hispanic pastors in Wichita and now is a reality. In partnership with Baptist University of the Americas in San Antonio, the Hispanic [...]
We are making some changes in our efforts to keep the churches of the association informed. In an effort to be good stewards of the resources of the association, we will no longer be mailing out the Heartbeat. In its place we will make bulletin inserts available to our churches. These inserts will be full [...]
Over the last 6 years, The Mission, the international student church at Wichita State, has had several siblings who have been a part of our ministry. On two occasions the older sibling has come to Wichita as a “Free Thinker,”* came to faith in Christ through relationships with believers at The Mission, and then seen [...]
Men of the Heart of Kansas the year 2010 is now history. On January 1 of 2010 we were given 365 days to minister to our neighbors and friends and to make new friends, those days are gone and we have a brand new year with 365 days ahead of us. As we look back, [...]
I want to invite you to be apart of a crusade in Lima, Peru next July 22-Aug.1. We will be working with 33 Churches in Lima, to see their family and friends come to the Lord. I’m needing 40 Americans to join with the nationals and other Latinos from the S.A. countries to bring this [...]
The leaders of our Southern Baptist Convention have called all pastors to lead their churches in a Solemn Assembly. A Solemn Assembly is a practice that is found in the Old Testament that was used by God’s leaders to direct the attention of the people back toward God. At times when the people were straying, [...]
This last week a young man came to Celebrate Recovery whose wife just gave birth to a baby girl. He confessed that he needed to change his lifestyle because he wanted to raise his baby girl up in a good home. We explained that the first step to a changed lifestyle is accepting Jesus Christ [...]
Late this fall we had another Arkansas mission team working at the Set Free House. This is the same group I mentioned in the last Heart Beat. This time they were a group of 6 retirees who spent the whole week working there and actually stayed there so they could get more done.. They finished [...]
Our Good Neighbor Centers are still touching lives in our community through benevolent ministries. We have seen many of the people coming to our centers give their lives to Christ. Our GNCs are in need of funds and food to meet the great needs. The needs in Wichita are continually growing and all of our [...]
Even with the weather being cold it is not too early to start thinking about the State Fair Horseshoe ministry. Please take time to pray for this ministry and the planning it takes. Pray specifically for all the details in renting the spot and gathering all the material. And pray for each person that will [...]
I know that right now with the cold and ice on the river it seems like a long time to River Fest, but it is just around the corner. The dates are June 3 to 11. Our outreach will be starting Thursday evening June 9 and ending Saturday evening June 11. We will be doing [...]
God is continuing to use this ministry to reach people for Christ. Olivet BC used this ministry at their fall outreach and we were overwhelmed with the number of people who wanted their personalized horseshoe with John 3:16 on it. We were also given the opportunity to take the ministry to a pro-rodeo event at [...]
I want to take a moment to thank you for the work team that was sent by you to assist us here at Westview this past year. Not only were we able to get our classrooms the much needed repairs, but we also created a new relationship with the brothers that came from the church [...]
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