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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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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)
Ministers Council Retreat (93 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
(Broadband | Dialup | IPOD Video )
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
2007 Great American Bike Ride
Across Missouri for
Church PlantingThe 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
American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region
Challenging, Empowering, Assisting, Representing
American Baptist Churches
in IL & MO
Retreat Leader: Ron Carlson,
Missional Church Consultant
(open PDF brochure in PDF for download)
Top, Dwight Stinnett points workers in the right way. Bottom left, Max Klinkenborg takes a break from his "House Leader's" duties. At bottom right, Muriel Johnson is pictured as part of three generations of Gospel ministry. At left, Tenolian Bell, Sr. and at right, William Collins, Jr.
