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Dear SCBI Pastor, We are searching for Southern Baptist churches or church plants who might be interested in hosting a mission team from Southeast Texas. The Sabine Neches Baptist Area is comprised of three associations above Beaumont, TX and below Lufkin, TX. They have more than 100 churches and of course, more than half are less […]

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Missions is the heartbeat of God and of who we are as Indiana Baptists! SCBI will offer its annual Missions Lifeline event on Saturday, August 21 (8:30 am-3:30 pm) at Calvary Baptist Church in Greenfield. It’s designed for Pastors, mission-minded church members and children. The purpose is to help your church continue to pursue reaching […]

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During Student Fusion 2021 campers converged on Highland Lakes Baptist Camp with incredible gratefulness, after a tough year and a half. With the cancellation of last summer’s camps, students and leaders were eager to gather together, even if at a slightly reduced capacity. Rayden Hollis and Mike Whittymore brought incredible messages each day, while Jake […]

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As I write this article, we are halfway through our camp season. What a complete joy it is to be back, even though it is at a more limited capacity than in past years. Being back at the business of being a resource to others to Discover, Develop, and Deploy a Transformed Life in Christ […]

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By: John Burke Rethink Ministry CEO and Founder What next? Over the last 18 months, churches across the nation have scrambled to be something that they have never been before. But if we believe that “all things work together for good to them that love God” (Rom 8:28), then good is on the horizon. Now […]

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As your new Interim Team Leader for Church and Leader Development, I work a lot with church revitalization in our State.  One of the best books I’ve read on this subject in the last year is Reclaimed Church by Pastor Bill Henard.  He defines church revitalization as the spiritual “process by which the church learns […]

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My fellow Indiana Baptists, I would like to introduce myself to those who may not know me. My name is Joshua Goepfrich and I serve as pastor at Hilltop Community Church in Warsaw, IN. My wife Melissa and I have been married twenty-two years and will celebrate another year in December. We have three children, […]

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As we bid “Godspeed” to our friend, brother, and SCBI Executive Director, Steve McNeil, your Administrative Committee requests your prayers in the search for our next Executive Director. The committee consists of: Beverly Whitely, Tom Savage (Chairman), Dennis Runner, Bobby Pell, John Newland, Larry Lewis, Josh Goepfrich, Dan DeFreise and Greg Byman. We have already […]

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2021—The Difference! The difference between open and closed; between guests and no guests; between camps and no camps; between light and dark. This year, the summer of 2021, is the summer of Difference at Highland Lakes. We are excited to welcome back our campers, our staff, our Summer Missionaries (SuMos) and the Campers on Mission! […]

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OK, I am officially old. I had cataract surgery last month. All my life, my vision has been somewhat of an issue. I got glasses at eight years old. I was unable to qualify in a night firing exercise in the Army after leading the way in the daylight. I had difficulty identifying one color […]

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