American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region
News, Opportunities, Reflections, & Connectionsfor Growing Healthy Churches
A Journey through Friday, October 5 at the GRR Annual Meeting.
Dwight Stinnett teaches the Convention theme scripture. (Flash | Dialup)
Saturday (All Day): Decatur Hotel and Conference Center
Sunday: First Baptist Church of Decatur
Support Ministry and Mission of the GRR by giving online.
Bivocational Ministry, An Affirmation by Randy McNeely
Also: October's Bivocational Ministries Newsletter from Dennis Bickers. Read Dennis' blog.
John Grisham presents 12 short videos on stewardship by Robert Crandall and Associates. These are well done and appropriate for showing in worship, discipleship venues, and other occassions.
Register now for the 2007 Blackhawk Christmas Camp. Registration is limited to the first 50 children.
What is it? View a moment of the actual seminar.
View a listing of upcoming training opportunities sponsored by GRR churches, clusters, areas, or associations and open to GRR church leaders and/or clergy.
Find it online at http://www.abcgrr2.org/
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Or, request a self-starting CD by sending an e-mail request to Debbie (debbie@abc-grr.org) There is no charge for this CD for GRR churches and pastors.
Did you know? If you needed to view again a story that is no longer available on this home page, that you can view past home pages? Use the Archive.
Special Guest, Rev. Muriel Johnson.
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Click on the dropdown arrow on the right side of the "GRR Site Index" above to view and use an exhaustive list of links to all the nearly 900 pages of this site. Or, use the "site map" link on the bottom of this column for an exploration of this site by themes.
Lake Benton Baptist Camp's Decommissioning Service Announced
Thinking about Offering Electronic Giving as an Option for Your Church? Reflect on this as you read this article from Christianity Today.
Use this link to give online!
World Mission Offering Materials UpdateInformation about this year's World Mission Offering can be found at worldmissionoffering.org
International Ministries is eager to give as many people as possible the chance to catch a glimpse of what God is doing in the world through the missionaries you support, the international partners, those missionaries serve and the direct engagement of US congregations and regions in global mission. So, the WMC has evolved into a weekend format, hitting the road and coming to Central Seminary on November 16-18, 2007.
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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
