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Vision Tour 2010Vision Tour 2010

A Heart for the Cities of the Heart of Kansas

Southern Baptist Association

A Heart for the Cities of the Heart of Kansas

Southern Baptist Association

Mark Jackson3474 S. MeridianWichita, Kansas 67217316.943.3446mark@hoksba.orghttp://www.hoksba.org

Heart of Kansas Southern Baptist Association

Catch the Vision Join the Mission

An opportunity

to use your

Passion for

Kingdom Work

April 26, 2010 6 PMApril 27, all day

Church plantingand other Mission Opportunities

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Heart of Kansas Vision Tour 2010

At the Heart of Kansas Southern Baptist Association, our members are seeking to make disciples by helping each other to increase in health and by starting new, vibrant churches which are equipped to reach people groups and population segments with a high percentage of lostness. The key to both healthy existing churches and new vibrant churches can be found in the growing and recruiting of strong leaders and in cooperatively gathering resources to engage in healthy, reproductive ministry.

We are asking you, our sister churches, to enter this process with us. Together we can be more effective in the mentoring and training of effective leaders, resourcing healthy ministries and in starting vibrant churches. Perhaps you could be a mentor to a leader or may know someone that God could use to start a new church. Your church may be able to provide resources that will enable us to reach our community.

We only ask, as we enter this process, that you seek to discover what God is calling you to do in our area.

Thank you for your interest and time!

Our letter to you,

“A man of Macedonia was standing and appealing to him (Paul), and saying, ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us.’ ” Acts 16:9

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

MINISTRY REFERENCE

Locator Map 4

Victory Baptist 6

Cottage Grove Good Neighbor Center 8

West Side Good Neighbor Center 9

Victory Baptist Good Neighbor Center 10

Old Time Gospel Good Neighbor Center 11

Midtown Baptist Good Neighbor Center 12

Juvenile Detention Ministries 13

Crossroad Community Church 14

Prairie Trail Church 15

Aviator Church 16

The Way 17

Westbrook Baptist Venue Andover 18

Set Free House and Ranch 19

Hutchinson Hispanic Church Start 22

Iglesia Bautista Getsemani 23

Nueva Vida – Northwest Wichita 24

Iglesia Bautista Buenas Nuevas 25

Immanuel Hispanic Church 26

GODdard’s Place 27

Other Church Starts 28

 

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Locations

Event Location

1 Depart Howard Johnson--6575 W. Kellogg Ave., ICT

2 812 S. Oliver, Wichita--Victory Baptist

3 3401 E. 47th Street S--Wichita, KS--GNC, JDF

4 2937 Oaklawn Dr., Wichita--CrossRoad Community Church

5 8550 S. Broadway, Haysville--Prairie Trail

6 801 E Market-- Derby, KS--Aviator

7 417 W Cental, Andover, lunch at Faith Baptist Church

8 417 W. Central, Andover--Westbrook Venue

9 430 E Douglas, Wichita--The Way

10 617 N Topeka, Wichita--Set Free Church and Ranch

11 2835 N. Woodland, Wichita--Hispanic Church Planting

12 1000 S. Goddard Rd, Goddard, GODDard's Place

13 Howard Johnson's - 6575 W. Kellogg Ave, Wichita

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Why You Should Partner

• Abraham (by faith) looked for a city, Heb 11:10• Jesus sent his disciples to the cities, Luke 10:1• Paul had a vision for a city (Macedonia), Acts 16:9• Low density of Southern Baptist Churches in our area

Heart of Kansas 1:10,000Texas 1: 3,022Oklahoma 1: 2,055Arkansas 1: 1,924

Alabama 1: 1,450Mississippi 1: 1,376

Please consider this your Macedonian invitation

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Victory Baptist Community of FaithVictory Baptist is a church partner with Heart of Kansas ministering to families in a predominantly African American, lower income area with daily exposure to drug dealers and gangs. Victory presents Jesus to these families.

1. Church sign replacement2. Door to door canvassing3. Block Parties and VBS4. Program funding5. Salary support to allow Jermaine to work

more in the church6. Summer Missionaries7. Minor construction in neighborhood

8. Prayer for Jesus And Me Youth program

For more information contact Reverend Jermaine Pennington 316.806.5963 or Mark Jackson 316.214.3647

Ministry Needs

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Good Neighbor CentersGood Neighbor Centers are used to share the gospel through community outreach such as food pantry, clothing, Bible Studies and meeting other needs.

Cottage Grove

West Side Victory Baptist

Old Time Gospel

Midtown

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• Partnering Churches

Volunteer workers

Operating funds• Food and clothing

Collect 2009 cans of food

Have a coat drive

Give up your shoes• Bibles, tracts, and Bible studies• Varied Work Projects• School Supplies

Cottage Grove Good Neighbor CenterThis is a lower income area in south Wichita and is sponsored by Midway Baptist Church. This building currently hosts the thriving Southern Baptist church, Redencion. They have held Bible studies for years and have space for an additional church.

Cottage Grove

For more information contact Loren Phippen 316.706.8406 or Ernie Hough 316.644.9341

Ernie Hough

Ministry Needs

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West Side Good Neighbor CenterThe West Side Good Neighbor Center has been actively involved in food and clothing. It has a large, city wide clientele that utilizes the center. Each individual hears the gospel and works one on one with a care leader.

For more information contact Melonie Bogard 316.390.9352 or Loren Phippen 316.706.8406

1. Partnering Churches2. Volunteer workers3. Operating funds4. Food and clothing5. Bibles, tracts, bible studies6. Varied Work Projects7. Mission Teams

Ministry Needs

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Victory Baptist Good Neighbor CenterVictory Baptist church has begun a Good Neighbor Center ministry to aid the low income families in the neighborhood. The new ministry has had several opportunities to share the gospel while tending to people’s needs in this high crime area.

1. Prayer partners2. Clothing3. Food4. Funding

For more information contact Reverend Jermaine Pennington 316.806.5963 Rhonda Porter 316.390.8265or Loren Phippen 316.706.8406

Rhonda Porter

Ministry Needs

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Old Time Gospel Good Neighbor CenterOld Time Gospel Good Neighbor Center is a ministry serving the needs of a poor, predominantly Hispanic area in north central Wichita. Food and clothing are distributed along with the gospel through their ministry. This group of twenty provide food &/or clothing to over 400 families a month. Recently they have partnered with one of our Hispanic churches to minister spiritually to these people.

Ministry Needs1. Prayer partners

2. Food and clothing

3. Sponsoring churches

4. Bibles and tracts

5. Teams for building repairs

5. Funds to operate ministry

For more information contact

Anne Graham 316.806.0335 or

Loren Phippen 316.706.8406

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Midtown Good Neighbor Center

Ministry Needs

1. Prayer partners

2. Food and clothing

3. Sponsoring churches

4. Bibles and tracts

5. Teams for building repairs

5. Funds to operate the building

The Midtown Good Neighbor Center is operating a food and clothing ministry, Bible studies, and a worship service. We see the potential for multiple churches (Set Free, Hispanic, African American) to meet in this building. Pray for us as we seek God’s direction in the establishment of ministries in this building.

For more information contact Richard Simmons 316.207.8216 or Loren Phippen 316.706.8406

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Juvenile Detention MinistriesLoren Phippen has a burden for youth who have been in the detention system in the Wichita metropolitan area. He has seen the impact crime has on these young people. Loren has actively recruited others to help in ministering to these youth in three of the county’s detention centers. He has been blessed to see how God can change these lives to live wholly for Christ.

1. Local youth pastors and leaders to mentor youth

2. Churches to help youth to re-enter society3. $ for bibles4. Prayer Partners

For more information contact Loren Phippen 316.706.8406

Ministry Needs

Juvenile Detention Facility

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Crossroad Community ChurchDan Byrnes has begun a new church plant in the Cottage Grove Community Center in southeast Wichita. Young adults in the Oaklawn area have few positive influences in their lives. Many individuals are led to drugs, gangs and crime in this highly diverse area where 12.6% live below the poverty level. Prayer walks, door to door evangelism and block parties have been successful in this area. Dan and his core group started services in January 2009.

Ministry Needs1. Partnering Churches2. Bibles, tracts, and Bible studies

3. Mission teams for prayer walks, VBS, and events4. Operating Funds (rent, materials, events, etc.)

For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647 or Dan Byrnes 316.993.6806

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Prairie Trail Church

Ministry Needs•Interior/exterior remodel•Yard, parking and lot renewal•Construction of

Pole building type structure for ministryNew garage

•Team to run an arena event such as barrel racing, play days, or team roping

•VBS, or teen event on animal care/horse riding basics at another site

•Summer jams with chuckwagon feeds. (similar in idea to a block party)

The purpose of Prairie Trail Church is to make disciples of western cultured people by going where they are, sharing Christ, baptizing them into the fellowship of the church, and demonstrating biblical principles in our lives. Through Arena Events,Chuck Wagon Ministriesand faith based Opry House theseindividuals will hear and seeChrist in a new way.

For more information contact Wayne Trimmell 306.721.4460 or Mark Jackson 316.214.3647

Pastor Wayne

Trimmell

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1. Block parties

2. VBS

3. Canvassing

4. Church planter internship funding for salary and expenses

5. Mission teams

6. Summer Missionaries(high school seniors and college students)

Aviator Church

Ministry Needs

Joe and Michelle Boyd, led by God to the Wichita area, launched in September 2008 in Derby, Kansas, a community of 20,000. In this short time they have grown to around 300 in attendance and have had 21 baptisms. They are in the planning stages for their first church start, which will be led by Chad Pearce (see “The Way” slide). Their focus for partnerships will be on expanding their geographical outreach, starting new churches, and the development and support of a church planter internship program.

For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647Or Joe Boyd, 316.409.8080, http://aviatorchurch.com

Pastor Joe Boyd and his wife, Michelle

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Westbrook Baptist ChurchVenue Andover

This venue is designed to be a safe place where everyone could feel comfortable no matter where their life had taken them or the direction of their spiritual background. Westbrook has already launched two successful venues in Hutchinson and Sterling, KS.

The primary need of this new church is funding for media streaming infrastructure.

For more information contact Andy Addis 620.921.5281 2005 North HendricksHutchinson, KS 67502

Andy Addis has a downloadable bio at andyaddis.com/bio.html

Email: andy@andyaddis.com

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Ministry Needs

Chad and Shaina Pearce have been led by God to plant a church in the downtown area of Wichita where over 100,000 people live with 15% of them between the ages of 25 and 34. Their hope is to share the love of Christ with this urban dwelling young population.

Journey The WayYoung Professional Adults

Downtown Wichita, Kansas

1. Projector and sound equipment

2. Core team members

3. Partnering churches: prayer, finances, mentoring

4. Mission teams to lead outreach events, evangelize, and canvass neighborhoods

5. Salary support

For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647Or Chad Pearce 319.572.5450

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Remodeling is underway on the Set Free house at 617/619 N. Topeka, Wichita, Kansas. Upon completion, missionaries from the Set Free Church in Yucaipa, California will move in and begin the process of reaching homeless drug addicts with the gospel and starting a church. A discipleship ranch for men and one for women and children will soon follow. Set Free is an indigenous church planting movement founded by Southern Baptist Pastor Willie Dalgity in 1993.

To Addicts, Prostitutes and the Homeless

1. Volunteers to finish the interior2. Several sponsoring churches3. $2,000-3,000 per month for

operations (utilities, pastor’s salary, programming)

4. Help with block parties5. A discipleship ranch

Set Free Ministries : http://setfreerocks.com

Ministry Needs

Set Free Inner City Church Plant

For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647 or Loren Phippen 316.706.8406

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Association Master Plan for Hispanic Work• Build a pool of Hispanic Planters/Ministers through our Church Planter Training Center and recruitment • Strategically locate ministries and outreach Music Training

Teach ESL Hunger/Clothing Ministry Connect children with schools Community Celebrations AWANAS

• Start new churches locally and regionally as leadership is developed

• Strengthen existing Hispanic churches

For more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312

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Hispanic Christian Festival 2009In 2008, of the eight hundred who attended the Hispanic Christian Festival, nine adults and thirty five children made salvation decisions. More than eight Southern Baptist churches participated together.With your help we can continue to expand this outreach event.

Ministry Needs1. 75 Volunteers to do support work2. $3,000 for costs3. A good used car to give away

For more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312

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Hispanic Church Start in HutchinsonSponsored by First Southern Baptist Church

Pastor Carlo Guarneri, an experienced Southern Baptist Pastor, has been recruited to start a Hispanic church. First Southern Baptist Church of Hutchinsonis providing classroom space for this work which started on Resurrection Sunday, 2008

For more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312 or Ray Kempel 620. 663-4425

1. Door to door canvassing2. VBS3. Block Parties4. Prayer Walking

Mission Teams

1. Outreach events2. Car expenses3. Bibles4. Bible study materials

Ministry Needs

Funding

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Iglesia Bautista Getsemani

• Getsemani is our most established Hispanic church. They are somewhat unusual in that they have members from multiple nations.

• We are partnering with Getsemani so they may reach many more Hispanics and start other churches.

Mission Teams for:1. VBS teams2. Canvassing of Neighborhoods3. Ministry Projects4. Help in starting AWANAS5. Establish food/clothing closet6. ESL volunteers

Ministry Needs

For more information contact Don Chance 316.841.2622 or Mark Jackson 316.214.3647

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Woodland Baptist Church, an Anglo congregation, is sharing its building with Nueva Vida, a recently constituted Hispanic church. The neighborhood has a heavy concentration of Hispanics. Abraham Arevalo is currently the pastor.

Ministry Needs

Nueva Vida – Northwest WichitaWoodland Baptist Church Building

For more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312

1. Sponsoring churches for building a new facility

2. Mission building teams for 2010

3. Mission teams for VBS, surveys, evangelism, etc.

4. Prayer walks

5. Financial support for the first AWANA club in Spanish in Kansas

6. College student summer missionaries

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This new Hispanic work has started in the Planeview area. This is an inner city area with about 80% of the population Hispanic. This duplex was remodeled into an Hispanic Community Center. ESL classes and Bible studies are under way.

Ministry Needs

Iglesia Bautista Buenas Nuevas

1. School supplies

2. ESL classes

3. VBS, last year we had 90 in attendance and 15 decisions for Jesus in two sessions

4. Prayer walks

5. Soccer Camps

6. Evangelism

7. Daytime workers

8. Help with utilities

9. AWANASFor more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312

Pastor Daniel Diaz with a donated car

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Ministry Needs

Immanuel Hispanic Church

For more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312

1. Financial Support for the de la Cruz Family

2. School supplies

3. ESL classes

4. Prayer walks

5. Soccer Camps

6. Evangelism

7. Daytime workers

Another new Hispanic work has started in the Immanuel Baptist Church. This church has welcomed Jeronimo and Alba de la Cruz as Hispanic Church Planters in south central Wichita. Last April they had their first four baptisms.

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GODdard’s PlaceA new ministry to youth has begun in Goddard, Ks It is designed to bring the gospel to the youth in a new way. GODdard’s Place is located in an unused HOK church building located within walking distance of Goddard High School. John Stockstill, a teacher at GHS, uses his youth and worship experience to direct this ministry. John had developed a burden for the youth who were “hanging out” after school.

Ministry Needs1. Remodeling teams2. Funding for building and ministry costs 3. Teams for youth activity supervision4. Volunteers for youth activities5. Prayer partners

For more information contact Loren Phippen 316.706.8406 orJohn Stockstill 316.619.0883

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Ministry Needs

Young ProfessionalsNorthwest and Northeast Wichita, Kansas

1. A projector and sound equipment2. Church plant pastor and core team members3. Partnering churches: prayer, finances, mentoring4. Mission teams to lead outreach events, evangelize, and canvass neighborhoods

For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647

Plans are being made for a church that will target young professionals in these two areas. We are presently recruiting a church plant pastor and doing preliminary work.

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Summer Missionaries Needed• College students, High School seniors-to-be and recent H/S graduates

• Apply at http://www.answerthecall.net/

• Send your name to brads@hoksba.org to get placed

• Stipend of $750, travel, meals, and transportation if NAMB approved

• VBS, construction, church planting, and evangelism

Contact Brad Simmons 316.943.3446, for more info

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How you can help• Pray• Plan an annual mission trip or trips• Host special events• Become a church planter or core team member• Raise Funds for needed resources

VBS offeringHost a food drive to collect 2009 cans of foodPlace us in your budgetTake a special offering on the fifth Sunday of the monthRecruit ten people to give $5 / week for one yearDonate used equipmentFill a one gallon jar with coinsTake a missions offering in Sunday school

For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647