IBSA eConnection: Church financial firestorms, free Barna event, IL Baptist Disaster Relief, more

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The 2012 Illinois Mission Offering

This week is the suggested week for the Season of Prayer for Illinois Missions. Watch the Season of Prayer videos and get the IMO prayer guide now. This year's Illinois Mission Offering state goal is $475,000. Learn more about IMO at IBSA.org/IMO.

SEND: St. Louis - Catch the Vision Tour

Learn more about SEND: St. Louis by participating in the Sept. 27-28 Catch the Vision Tour. You will visit some of the places and meet some of the people groups that reflect the identified sites for new churches throughout the St. Louis Metro Area. IBSA Church Planters Charles Campbell and Eddie Pullen will join you on the tour. Learn more

Only 2 Super Saturday Seminars left in 2012!

If you haven't had time to attend a Church Strengthening Super Saturday Seminar in 2012, just two are left - September 22 at Broadview Missionary Baptist Church, Broadview and October 6 at Joy Baptist Church, Joy. Super Saturday Seminars offer a morning of practical, cutting-edge training designed to equip and strengthen your church's ministries in such areas as: Leadership Development, Sunday School, Evangelism, Discipleship, Music & Worship, Student Ministries, Family Ministries, Church Renewal, Missions Awareness, Church Planting, Prayer, Men's Ministries, and WMU. Visit IBSA.org to learn more.

Overcoming 4 coming church financial firestorms

Wildfires can come out of nowhere, but frequent clearing of underbrush can help prevent the firestorms they create from spreading. Likewise, "clearing the underbrush" can help prevent the coming firestorms in church finances. Churches that take the time and energy to address these four church financial firestorms will be better prepared to meet the coming challenges in the next few years. Learn more at LifeWay.com.

Free from Barna Group: 'You Lost Me. Live' learning day

This generation of teenagers and young adults is facing an unfamiliar cultural context, with changing values, unprecedented technologies and new ways of interacting with people and institutions. David Kinnaman, Barna Goup president, is leading a free live learning day in Chicago next month to help leaders, educators, pastors and parents understand these trends, and not miss what God is doing in the next generation. The learning day is based on Kinnaman's book, "You Lost Me." Find out how you can attend at Barna.org.

S. Baptist Disaster Relief Isaac Response update

Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief Teams from Central and Franklin Baptist Associations are in Port Sulphur Springs, LA doing mudout, roofing and chainsaw work. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams have been hard at work in the areas hit by Hurricane Isaac last month. Watch Fred Luter, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, as he provides an update on the efforts of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers in New Orleans at NAMB.net.

IBSA eConnection is a weekly electronic newsletter designed to provide Illinois Baptists with relevant, useful information and resources. We pray it enriches your ministry and helps your church to grow and minister.