Check out the New Missionary Listing on the International Ministries web site!
2007 Great American Bike Ride
Across Missouri for
Church Planting
The brochure is online. Register to ride AND/OR pledge your support to your favorite rider online. (If you have already made a pledge, you can send your pledged amount by either check or credit card.) For More Information, contact: Max Klinkenborg (217) 726-7366 max@abc-grr.org or Jon Heikes (217) 357-3817 JonHeikes@gmail.com
Your Gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing have helped children, women, and men throughout the world. Relief monies released to fund ministry closest to home has been the 2006 Springfield IL tornado recovery. Thank you for giving!
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)
Planning Calendar from ABCUSA
"God at Work" podcasts from IM
Vacation Bible School Mission
Projects 2007 (2 pages, 286 kb)
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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
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Dr. Stinnett considers what we may have missed by concentrating too much on the functional initiatives of being Church. Read his most recent Current Thoughts column.
Max Klinkenborg discusses Natural Church Development
(Broadband | Dialup | IPOD Video )
For Dr. Stinnett's testimony about Vacation Bible School and Children in Poverty initiatives go to the GRR multimedia listing:Web Site Re-Design
The annual re-design of the GRR web site is underway. You may come upon sections already loaded. Goals for this re-design include:
For a taste of what is coming, go to the Program Staff pages. (If the new page(s) do not load, hold down "Ctrl" on your keyboard as you click on your browser's "refresh" button. This forces your browser to load the new page.)
Carl Cottingham, Dean of the Regional Ordination Program, has announced the instructor, date, place, site, and fees for the American Baptist History and Polity Course
Registration materials are coming soon!
Boundaries Course: Tuesday, September 11 at Lake Springfield Baptist Camp with Dr. Dwight Stinnett
American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region
Challenging, Empowering, Assisting, Representing
American Baptist Churches
in IL & MO
The website at www.abc-usa.org is okay to access now. However, part of the site has been disabled (news and events sections, for example) so you might not be able to get everywhere you want. It's safe to access whatever you can reach. There's still a warning message up on the site, but it's okay to use the site.
Don Green will lead two sessions. Jack and Joel Jochums will lead music. Expanded Youth Program will be co-led by Patrick Embley and Tory Gum.
Your Invitation
Download Registration
Plans are under way by ABC National Ministries and by individual churches to continue mission work on the Gulf Coast. It will, as Dwight Stinnett has observed, take more years of ministry to help those so tragically hurt by the hurricanes. When the plans are announced, your GRR will be getting out the word through this Site and other communications.
Stories of individual experiences will be posted as more GRR churches return from their mission work trips. Photo album. (Firefox browser loads this more quickly.)
Read Dwight Stinnett's appeal for pictures and stories to help celebrate the work God is doing through these efforts.
