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My name is Ben Beland. I grew up in a Christian family in Quebec, Canada. God, through the help of an IMB missionary, led me on a mission trip doing disaster relief after the devastating 2017 hurricane season. During this time, my wife, Katheryn, and I met while we were both serving in Puerto Rico. […]

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John Horn, Team Leader for Church Health, announced his retirement from the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana (SCBI) effective March 30, 2023. He announced his retirement plan to the SCBI staff in a February staff meeting and to the executive board in the March 7, 2023 board meeting. Horn has been with the SCBI […]

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The SCBI partners with churches to help discover and fulfill their next step so that we can, together, connect for Kingdom Advancement. To see this vision fulfilled, the SCBI has trained and empowered six local pastors from around the state to be Next Steps Connectors. The Training Your Next Step Connectors met on Tuesday, January […]

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It’s February, it’s cold, time to be thinking about….SUMMER!! Specifically, start thinking about…CAMP!!! Yes, indeed, just the thought of Highland Lakes and Camp Cookies and the Giant Swing and running in the sun on the rec field and jumping into Brock Lake or the pool and hiking and friendships and discovering, developing, and deploying a […]

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In 2001, Jimi and Carla Staton started New Life Fellowship Church with two other couples in Huntington, Indiana.  This young church had to move locations five times in the first ten years.  During their fifth year as a congregation, they opened a soup kitchen in the church basement. Now in 2023, the church has experienced […]

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During the weekend of Friday October 21st through Sunday October 23rd, members of Launch Campus Ministry at Purdue University were blessed with the opportunity to attend our annual Fall Retreat at Highland Lake Baptist Camp. Under the Direction of Will & Risha Evans, Launch members were given the chance to study together, pray, and bond […]

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Twenty Indiana University (IUS) Christian Student Fellowship (CSF) students spent their fall break attending the Fall Retreat at Mt. St. Francis on October 17-18, 2022. The overall CSF theme of 2022-23 is “GO” based on Acts 1:8. The retreat was entitled “GO WITH THE GOSPEL” with an overall theme of evangelism. Campus Ministers Chris and […]

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The Baptist Foundation of Indiana exists to support the work of the churches of our State Convention.  What better way to stand alongside our churches than to encourage and elevate the training of her pastors? You might think that the Foundation uses OUR money to give scholarships.  That would be wrong.  BFI has no money […]

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SCBI appreciates and cares about our bi-vocational pastors and their families!  This year we will host our second annual Bi-vocational Pastors and Wives Retreat on March 24-25 at Highland Lakes Camp.  The theme of the event will be “Encouraged and Strengthened for the Mission.”  Our guest speakers will be Terry and Kelly Thompson. Terry served […]

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Studying your community demographics is a good way to understand what’s happening in your community, what the needs are, and how you can minister to them to share the Gospel.  SCBI has new free Missioninsite demographics available now for our churches! To request your community demographics, determine the address site that you want to study […]

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