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Praise the Lord for His gracious benevolence last July at Celebration Baptist Church! He sent three mission teams that worked alongside our members to scrape the exterior walls, paint the interior and exterior walls, and distribute VBS invitations and gospel tracts at the YMCA and in the neighborhoods near our church. We appreciate the Heart [...]
I wrote recently about my novice status as a golfer. You may remember that golf is a rather new sport for me. The summers of my youth were not spent on golf courses, but at the lake. I often spent summer recreation time water skiing. While growing up in Alabama, my family spent a lot [...]
Ronald Simmons said, “I want to destroy a myth that seems to be floating around recovery. This rumor is, relapse is a part of your recovery. For some strange reason people believe that to become free or participate in the process of recovery you must go out and relapse, returning to recovery to start this [...]
When I became a Director of Missions I thought that I needed to take up the sport of golf. In all my years of pastoring I had played only a few times. But before moving onto the field where I would serve in this new role, my wife and sons bought me a set of [...]
I have recently been trained and certified as a facilitator for the Evangelism Response Center. The ERC is responsible for handling thousands of phone calls from people who have spiritual questions and interest in knowing more about Christ. The ERC receives the phone call on one of their 800 numbers and transfers it to a [...]
It is not too early to start praying about going on an evangelistic mission trip next year. Each year we take a group to an evangelistic event the day before the Rose Bowl parade. We usually depart on December 30th and return January 1st. Each year we see numerous lives changed and many people touched [...]
Forty-Six men and women from the Heart of Kansas Southern Baptist Association faced mild temperatures in the 80’s with a light breeze chasing a little white ball around Hesston Golf Park on Saturday, October 9, 2010 at the Fifth Annual Fall Two-Person Scramble Golf Tournament. What a contrast to last year with temperatures in the [...]
Our Good Neighbor Centers are still touching lives in our community through benevolent ministries. We have seen many people come to our centers and give their lives to Christ. Our GNC’s are in need of funds and food to meet the great needs. The needs in Wichita are continually growing and all of our centers [...]
By Gail Phippen The Heart of Kansas Southern Baptist Association (HOKSBA) sponsored its first “horseshoe ministry” event at the Kansas State Fair this year. The horseshoe ministry was first used by the association at the annual River Festival in Wichita and was such a success that the idea was born to try the event at [...]
The Churches of HOKSBA continue working together to share Christ with every person in our community. Once more, the churches of HOKSBA have shown what cooperation is all about. This October, more than 60 volunteers worked together to present Judgment House in Spanish to more than 240 people. The title for this year was: Unexpected. For [...]
Over the last several months I have been meeting with a small group of men who are concerned with the lives of these kids when they get out of the facilities. Many do not have a good Christian influence and go back to their old lifestyle. There is a real need for Christian men to [...]
Heart of Kansas men did you participate in the Bigger Breakfast on September 25th for a “somewhat” simultaneous men’s breakfast and prayer time? Some of our churches gathered for breakfast and launched a 40 day prayer plan for spiritual renewal. Did you attend the 2010 men’s retreat at Webster Conference Center on October 15th and [...]
The River Fest will be changing dates and possibly locations for 2011. 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 the horse shoe ministry, block party and other ministries. Please put that on your calendar and please [...]
Early this fall we had another Arkansas mission team working at the Set Free House. They were a group of 10 retirees who spent the whole week working there. They finished the mudding and taping in the living and dining rooms, stairways and the south kitchen. They also did a lot of electrical work and [...]
Every year our fall event is taking the Special Ed. group to the Pumpkin Patch at Cox Farms. The bus was loaded with the group and away we went. Behind my drivers seat I could hear the sounds of the excitement as everyone was talking together and all at once as we rode down the [...]
From the HOKSBA Sunday School Team The following seven questions were presented by Dr. Thom Rainer as he met with Sunday School leadership prior to the associational evangelism rally the end of August. Sunday School leaders are encouraged to ask and answer these questions as they consider the evangelistic emphasis of the Sunday School ministry [...]
The outreach at the state fair this year went great. We manned the booth 10 hours a day for ten days and usually had a full volunteer crew. We had over 120 volunteers and most of them were from Heart of Kansas churches. We gave away 4800 horseshoes and shared the Gospel with over 4500 [...]
We are going to have our Christmas dinner on Christmas day. If you have a group or a choir that would like to perform at our Christmas dinner please contact Deborah Long-Torrens. Winter is around the corner so we need men & women’s coats, hats, gloves, long johns, sleeping bags and backpacks. This past month [...]
By the time you read this it will be very close to the start of the Kansas State Fair outreach. The fair is September 10th – 19th. We have rented an outdoor space and will be doing the horse shoe ministry there every day from 9a.m. – 7:30p.m. We hand stamp people’s name on horseshoes [...]
Eva Wilson is associate editor of The Baptist Digest, newsjournal of the Kansas-Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists. John Minor (right) preached the final sermon in his full-time ministry career on Sunday, June 27. Minor had served at Woodland Baptist Church in north Wichita for 17 years. The service also marked the end of Woodland’s 45-year [...]
In the New Testament, new churches sprung up in areas where evangelism and outreach had been occurring. We have been following this pattern in the Heart of Kansas Association area. Men and women with an evangelistic zeal have gone into areas that were in need of additional evangelistic effort. As a result, we have seen [...]
We all know that the first step toward health and growth in our churches is spiritual health. There is no strategy or process that is going to overcome hardness of heart toward God or our fellow believers. How often is the real spiritual work of God hindered because we are unwilling to forgive? Has there [...]
5th Annual Fall Two-Person Scramble Registration Form Golf Tournament Charley Powell, Tournament Director Saturday, October 9, 2010 – Hesston Golf Park Tee Time: 1:00 PM (check-in 12:00 – 12:30) Cost $40.00/person (includes: golf, cart, range balls, prizes & food afterwards) Flighted by score – approx 8 teams/flight – Following golf there will be an awards [...]
As we start a new wMu year, “Unhindered!” is our theme for 2010-2012. Our scripture passage is from Hebrews 12:1-11 NIV. Our Watchword is “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with [...]
This summer we have had several mission teams work at the Set Free house. Most of the mudding and taping is done and all rooms except the lower bathrooms and kitchens have been textured. Just a little more mudding and taping and we will be able to start installing the cabinets and then the flooring. [...]
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