Three Locations in 2007
Sioux Falls, SD - Sept 14 - 16
Canandaigua, NY - Oct 12 - 14
Kansas City, KS - Nov 16 - 18
Registration and More
The brochure is online. Register to ride AND pledge your support to your favorite rider online.
Great Rivers Region churches planning for volunteer groups to go to the Gulf Coast to help build homes. (Get Involved | Details) Please let us know about your planned trip.
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Boundaries Course - April 25
Info | Registration
Camping Poster (85 kb)/ Registration Brochure (80 Kb)
Health Form
List of Camps & Directors
Make Promo Disc: Download & Burn
to disc (Extract all files to a folder. Then, use your CD writer program to copy all the files in the folder - NOT the folder - to a CD. That CD should then be a self-starting CD.)
Church Health Inventory
(140 Kb)
Clergy Spouse Retreat (200 Kb)
Ministers Council Retreat (35 Kb)
Planning Calendar from ABCUSA now posted.
"God at Work" podcasts from IM
Vacation Bible School Mission
Projects 2007 (2 pages, 286 kb)
ABC Great Rivers Region
(217) 726 - 7366
(217) 726 - 7566 FAX
grrabc@abc-grr.org
Physical Address:
3940 Pintail Drive
Springfield IL 62711Mailing Address:
P. O. Box 3786
Springfield IL 62708
Administrative Staff:
Roland Sundberg, Executive Administrator
roland@abc-grr.org
Candy Stivers, Data Management
candy@abc-grr.org
Sharon Downs, Camp Administrative Coordinator
sharon@abc-grr.org
Debbie Naugle, Registrar & Receptionist
debbie@abc-grr.org
Program Staff:
Dwight Stinnett
Executive Minister
John Grisham
Mission Support
Stewardship
Cheryl Henson
Area I
Ministerial Recruitment
Ministerial Cont. Ed.
Max Klinkenborg
Area II
Natural Church Dev.
Spiritual Development
Richard Ricks
Area III
Multimedia
Web Technologies
Randy McNeely
Area IV
Bivocational Ministry
Costa Rica Partnership
Muriel Johnson
Area V
Church Planting
ABF & GRR: A Discussion, Paul Weers and John Grisham
(Broadband | Dialup | Archive)
April 19 - 21Who should attend? Pastors, Christian educators, seminarians, denominational staff, professional and lay leaders in the churches, and all who are interested in the ministry of disciple-making and becoming more faithful disciples.
Our own Rev. Muriel Johnson will be hosting a Great Rivers Region Round Table Reception during the conference! Read More | Register Online
Clergy Spouses Hold Retreat
May 4 - 5 at Lake Springfield Baptist Camp
Ministers Council Retreat
May 7 - 9 at Lake Springfield
American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region
Challenging, Empowering, Assisting, Representing
American Baptist Churches
in IL & MO
From April 12 - 14 (from left to right) Richard Ricks, Dan Siems, Paul Maitland, Cheryl Henson, and Gary Harrison participated in Natural Church Development Training at Church Smart Resources of St. Charles IL. Pastors Siems (Galesburg FBC with Deacon Chairperson, Gary Harrison) and Maitland (Second Baptist, Peoria) are overseeing the implementation of this process in their churches.
Several GRR staff are trained to help your church consider, implement, and evaluate this process for growing healthy churches. For more, contact project leader Max Klinkenborg.
Spiritual leadership is full of boundary conflicts. Often the lines between what is appropriate and what is not are unclear. We have all heard the stories of leaders who have “crossed the line,” wounding both themselves and others. Healthy churches practice healthy relationships that respect appropriate boundaries.
Dwight Stinnett will be the instructor in this one day course on April 25 hosted by Mt. Vernon IL First Baptist Church. Registration
