Did you know that only 3 of 10 young adults strongly agree that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven? The good news is that almost 9 out of 10 say they would be willing to listen to friends talk about Christianity and 6 out of 10 would be willing to study the Bible if asked by a friend. That really is good news.
Date Created: 4/20/2012 3:42:38 PM
Have you ever had that moment when you knew, I mean KNEW, you had to do something? Maybe it was to take a job, or ask that girl to marry you, or to pack up your family and move cross
Date Created: 2/13/2012 11:02:14 PM
LifePoint Church is a new church plant that will launch Easter Sunday 2012 in Strongsville, OH. a suburb in Cleveland. Read below to find more about how a church that was planted fifteen years ago is planting LifePoint Church.
Date Created: 2/1/2012 9:14:48 AM
By Neal ThorntonPastor of Connections Sevier Heights Baptist Church Knoxville, TN Condition of Cleveland I recently visited Cleveland as part of a vision trip from Sevier Heights Baptist Church in Knoxville, TN. During our time in the city,
Date Created: 1/23/2012 10:41:42 AM
I had just graduated from Mid America Baptist Theological Seminary and received an offer to serve as the Assistant Pastor at Concord Baptist Church in Jefferson City, Missouri. The plan was for me to be mentored by their pastor of
Date Created: 1/18/2012 2:51:04 PM
What would happen if government and
business leaders would team up with Southern Baptists to reach their city
with the gospel of Jesus? Such an
idea would seem impossible or at the least improbable, but it is happening in a
big way in the city of Euclid.
This week, Euclid church planter Josh
McGuire, Di
Date Created: 1/12/2012 10:25:13 AM
By Tobin Perry
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A church planting renaissance is on the horizon in an unlikely locale. Southern Baptists in Cleveland believe they’re on the edge of something big—a church planting movement that could change the city.
But they’ll need Southern Baptist partners from elsewhere to see that movement come to fruition.
“Cleveland needs people who love Jesus,” said Dan Ghramm, a North American Mission Board church planter in West Cleveland. “In the area of 65,000 people in far West Cleveland where I’m at, there has to be less than 300 to 400 people in a gospel-preaching church on Sunday morning.”
Date Created: 1/9/2012 1:45:01 PM
By Tobin Perry
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio – Cleveland Heights might not be the kind of place that attracts some church planters—at least church planters that want an easier road.
“Cleveland Heights has really become a church planting graveyard,” said Zach Weihrauch, who came to the city in 2011 to start a church as a North American Mission Board missionary. “It’s tough, but I really felt God was telling us that if there was a gospel-centered church here, then things would happen in Cleveland.”
Weihrauch is part of a new generation of pioneering Southern Baptist church planters who are re-engaging the major unreached cities of North America, like Cleveland, with the gospel through church planting.
Date Created: 1/9/2012 1:43:51 PM
By Tobin Perry
CONCORD, Tenn. – It’s rarely glamorous work. It’s raking leaves, painting and cleaning carpets. Yet Karen Claypool knows she’s serving Jesus by serving Cleveland church planters.
“We’ve done everything from cleaning toilets to cleaning carpets. We’ve done all kinds of things,” said Claypool. “I won’t see the people coming into the building, but I know that by the building being ready that we’re having an impact.”
Claypool has been helping to organize trips to Cleveland from First Baptist Church of Concord, Tenn., for two years. At least two dozen people from the church have made the trek to Cleveland to help local church planters with a variety of projects crucial to the task of reaching the city.
Date Created: 1/6/2012 4:10:46 PM