Heartland Baptist Association

We are going to Midwestern!

Jerry Palmer, DOM — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:48:10 +0000

Heartland Baptist Association will be spending this week helping build the new chapel at Midwestern Baptist Seminary. If you can help we would love to have you come to North Kansas City. Call the Mission Center if you want more information.

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Another season of camping in the books.....

Jerry Palmer, DOM — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:04:11 +0000

PICTURES FROM 2010 CAMPS ARE NOW BEING DOWNLOADED. CHECK BACK SHORTLY TO SEE ALL OF THEM.

Well, another year of summer camps are in the history books now and what a set of camps they were!! This year and next we will be doing a straight eight day run. We began Younger Children’s Camp on Friday, July 23rd. The Younger Children’s Camp is for completed grades three thru five. This year we had 86 campers, 44 adults and 18 Mission Friends (children of staff too young to be campers) for a total of 148 people in attendance. The theme was “Whatever” based upon Philippians 4:8. We had one precious life come to know Jesus as their Savior and one rededication. What a wonderful weekend this was!

Camp Ground Zero (for grades six thru eight) and Camp Life (for grades nine thru twelve) run concurrently Monday, July 26th thru Friday, July 30th, with the only overlap being meals and worship. I do not know for sure but I believe we saw a record attendance this year with 84 campers in Ground Zero and 58 campers in Camp Life. With the adults we had a total of 219 people on the grounds during this week. The best part is the decisions for this week. We saw 10 campers come to know Jesus, 18 rededications, 23 came for special prayer and three campers surrendered to special service. Praise God for all He has done and all He will DO! Plan on being a part of our camps next year during the third week in July, 2011.

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Camp comes, Camp goes and goes so quickly............

Jerry Palmer, DOM — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:55:00 +0000

Well, another year of summer camps are in the history books now and what a set of camps they were!! This year and next we will be doing a straight eight day run. We began Younger Children’s Camp on Friday, July 23rd. The Younger Children’s Camp is for completed grades three thru five. This year we had 86 campers, 44 adults and 18 Mission Friends (children of staff too young to be campers) for a total of 148 people in attendance. The theme was “Whatever” based upon Philippians 4:8. We had one precious life come to know Jesus as their Savior and one rededication. What a wonderful weekend this was!

Camp Ground Zero (for grades six thru eight) and Camp Life (for grades nine thru twelve) run concurrently Monday, July 26th thru Friday, July 30th, with the only overlap being meals and worship. I do not know for sure but I believe we saw a record attendance this year with 84 campers in Ground Zero and 58 campers in Camp Life. With the adults we had a total of 219 people on the grounds during this week. The best part is the decisions for this week. We saw 10 campers come to know Jesus, 18 rededications, 23 came for special prayer and three campers surrendered to special service. Praise God for all He has done and all He will DO! Plan on being a part of our camps next year during the third week in July, 2011.

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ON BEING SELECTED

Jerry Palmer, DOM — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:09:10 +0000

I have been returning to my childhood lately. I was notoriously shy growing up. That shyness caused me much pain (prime candidate to be bullied). I always feared the time when it came time to select baseball teams in school. I heard more than once, “I guess I’ll take Palmer” as the last person is selected (almost always me). I guess this makes being selected first that much sweeter! As you are probably aware, I have at my very core missions. I am so excited to see what is happening in Heartland right now. Eight of Heartland’s Churches participated in our recent GPS project. Our Evangelism Team has recommended (and was approved at the April Semi-Annual Meeting) for Heartland Baptist Association to develop an Evangelism Strategy to parallel NAMB’s 10 year Project, “God’s Plan for Sharing”. We are developing the first Disaster Relief Command/Communications Unit in the Missouri Baptist Convention. Our Block Party Trailers are already being used. (Better calendar your dates now. Open calendar dates for the Block Party Trailers are few during the summer.) Our Missions Projects this year will take us all the way to Kansas City, Missouri as we help Midwestern Baptist Seminary in building their new chapel. And, we are going back to El Salvador this November to complete the Pastoral Training project we began in 2009 along with training Children’s Workers. We will have a pulpit exchange this fall with Siouxland Association in South Dakota. Many exciting things are happening in Heartland! Back to being selected. As the front page states, Heartland Baptist Association has been selected by the North American Mission Board to be a pilot association for the Acts 1:8 Challenge strategy for Baptist Associations. Much more information will be coming to your church about what exactly this means. The main thing is that we will be helping to formulate this wonderful process for missions strategy. That means we will not only be helping our churches in Heartland, but associations across North America. The word has come, “We want Heartland!” We are thankful and humbled by being chosen. As always, I love being your Associational Missionary, and Linda & I pray constantly that God will bless each one.

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Introduction to Camping

Jerry Palmer, DOM — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:45:29 +0000

A COLD RECEPTION AT GRAND OAKS! We woke up this morning to high 30's more like November than May. Having a great time though. We have 39 campers and a total of 66 people for Introduction to Camping. More Pictures are coming.

Check out Heartland's FaceBook Page for more.

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Welcome to Heartland Baptist Association's Blogs!

Jerry Palmer, DOM — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:45:29 +0000

We have four different blogs:

General Blogs: You are currently looking at it. It contains a blogs about general life in the Heartland Baptist Association.
Camp Blogs: You can access it from a link at the top of the page. It contains information about Our Summer Camping Program.
Disaster Relief: Mostly regarding our Disaster Relief Command/Communications Trailer.
Summer Missions: This blog is where we showcase our summer missionary, Ryan Williams.

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Second post

Jerry Palmer, DOM — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:45:29 +0000

This is the second post.

It appears in multiple categories.

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First Post

Jerry Palmer, DOM — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:45:29 +0000

This is the first post.

It appears in a single category.

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