by Stephen Suffron | Sep 13, 2016 | Ministry, Missions
This week marks the beginning of the Dixie Jackson Offering for state missions here in Arkansas. Last week, I put up posters on the bulletin board, put the prayer guide in the bulletin, and showed a video in worship service about what this offering funds in our part...
by Stephen Suffron | Jul 19, 2016 | Ministry, Missions
I’ve been going on mission trips for a couple of decades now, and one repeated chorus is that the key word for missions is “flexibility.” Well, here I am writing this blog post from Huslia, Alaska on a borrowed computer. We were supposed to be...
by Chris Sims | Jul 14, 2016 | Ministry, Missions, Theology
To plant a church is to reach the lost with the gospel, see them saved and begin to disciple them. This seems a rather obvious statement. Even more obvious would be the pace that a church planter would hope that these things would happen. We surely want our work to...
by Chris Sims | Jul 7, 2016 | Ministry, Missions
In the check-out line in the market. At the 4-way stop in the neighborhood. During the game at our children’s sports league. On the job site with the co-workers. What happens at these places? That depends! These are the places where we become missionaries where we...
by Chris Sims | Jun 30, 2016 | Ministry, Missions
It’s funny. Every time I hear about another city I ponder its need for new churches. I hear percentages about the lost, the de-churched and the un-churched. In every case, there needs to be more churches planted everywhere to see that we are obedient to our commission...
by Wade Berry | Jun 24, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry, Missions, Scripture
On June 12, 2016, a man walked into a nightclub in Orlando, Florida known for its LGBTQ clientele. Over the next three hours, he perpetrated the largest mass killing in modern American history. Preliminary reports indicated that he committed this atrocity because he...
