Vision Tour 2010

1. Vision Tour 2010 Church planting and other Mission Opportunities April 26, 2010 6 PM April 27, all day A Heart for the Cities of the Heart of Kansas Southern Baptist Association Catch the Vision Join the Mission An opportunity to use your Passion for Kingdom Work Heart of Kansas Southern Baptist Association Mark Jackson 3474 S. Meridian Wichita, Kansas 67217 316.943.3446 mark@hoksba.org http://www.hoksba.org

2. Our letter to you, 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! • “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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5. 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 1:10,000 Texas 1: 3,022 Oklahoma 1: 2,055 Arkansas 1: 1,924 Alabama 1: 1,450 Mississippi 1: 1,376 Please consider this your Macedonian invitation

6. Victory Baptist Community of Faith Victory 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. Ministry Needs • Church sign replacement • Door to door canvassing • Block Parties and VBS • Program funding • Salary support to allow Jermaine to work more in the church • Summer Missionaries • Minor construction in neighborhood • Prayer for Jesus And Me Youth program For more information contact Reverend Jermaine Pennington 316.806.5963 or Mark Jackson 316.214.3647

7. Good Neighbor Centers Victory Baptist West Side Good Neighbor Centers are used to share the gospel through community outreach such as food pantry, clothing, Bible Studies and meeting other needs. Midtown Cottage Grove Old Time Gospel

8. Cottage Grove Good Neighbor Center This 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 Ministry Needs • 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 Ernie Hough For more information contact Loren Phippen 316.706.8406 or Ernie Hough 316.644.9341

9. West Side Good Neighbor Center Ministry Needs The 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. • Partnering Churches • Volunteer workers • Operating funds • Food and clothing • Bibles, tracts, bible studies • Varied Work Projects • Mission Teams For more information contact Melonie Bogard 316.390.9352 or Loren Phippen 316.706.8406

10. Victory Baptist Good Neighbor Center Victory 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. Ministry Needs For more information contact Reverend Jermaine Pennington 316.806.5963 Rhonda Porter 316.390.8265 or Loren Phippen 316.706.8406 • Prayer partners • Clothing • Food • Funding Rhonda Porter

11. Old Time Gospel Good Neighbor Center Old 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 Needs • Prayer partners • Food and clothing • Sponsoring churches • Bibles and tracts • Teams for building repairs • 5. Funds to operate ministry For more information contact Anne Graham 316.806.0335 or Loren Phippen 316.706.8406

12. Midtown Good Neighbor Center 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. Ministry Needs • Prayer partners • Food and clothing • Sponsoring churches • Bibles and tracts • Teams for building repairs • 5. Funds to operate • thebuilding For more information contact Richard Simmons 316.207.8216 or Loren Phippen 316.706.8406

13. Juvenile Detention Ministries Loren 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. Ministry Needs • Local youth pastors and leaders to mentor youth • Churches to help youth to re-enter society • $ for bibles • Prayer Partners Juvenile Detention Facility For more information contact Loren Phippen 316.706.8406

14. Crossroad Community Church Dan 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 Needs • Partnering Churches • Bibles, tracts, and Bible studies • Mission teams for prayer walks, VBS, and events • Operating Funds (rent, materials, events, etc.) For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647 or Dan Byrnes 316.993.6806

15. Prairie Trail Church 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 Ministries and faith based Opry House these individuals will hear and see Christ in a new way. Pastor Wayne Trimmell Ministry Needs • Interior/exterior remodel • Yard, parking and lot renewal • Construction of • Pole building type structure for ministry • New 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) For more information contact Wayne Trimmell 306.721.4460 or Mark Jackson 316.214.3647

16. Aviator Church 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. Ministry Needs Pastor Joe Boyd and his wife, Michelle • Block parties • VBS • Canvassing • Church planter internship funding for salary and expenses • Mission teams • Summer Missionaries • (high school seniors and college students) For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647 Or Joe Boyd, 316.409.8080, http://aviatorchurch.com

17. 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 Hendricks Hutchinson, KS 67502 Andy Addis has a downloadable bio at andyaddis.com/bio.html Email: andy@andyaddis.com

18. Journey The WayYoung Professional AdultsDowntown Wichita, Kansas 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. Ministry Needs • Projector and sound equipment • Core team members • Partnering churches: prayer, finances, mentoring • Mission teams to lead outreach events, evangelize, and canvass neighborhoods • Salary support For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647 Or Chad Pearce 319.572.5450

19. Set Free Inner City Church Plant To Addicts, Prostitutes and the Homeless 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. Ministry Needs • Volunteers to finish the interior • Several sponsoring churches • $2,000-3,000 per month for operations (utilities, pastor’s salary, programming) • Help with block parties • A discipleship ranch • Set Free Ministries : http://setfreerocks.com For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647 or Loren Phippen 316.706.8406

20. 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 Association Master Plan for Hispanic Work For more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312

21. Hispanic Christian Festival 2009 In 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 Needs • 75 Volunteers to do support work • $3,000 for costs • A good used car to give away For more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312

22. 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 Hutchinson is providing classroom space for this work which started on Resurrection Sunday, 2008 Ministry Needs Mission Teams • Door to door canvassing • VBS • Block Parties • Prayer Walking Funding • Outreach events • Car expenses • Bibles • Bible study materials For more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312 or Ray Kempel 620. 663-4425

23. 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. For more information contact Don Chance 316.841.2622 or Mark Jackson 316.214.3647 Ministry Needs • Mission Teams for: • VBS teams • Canvassing of Neighborhoods • Ministry Projects • Help in starting AWANAS • Establish food/clothing closet • ESL volunteers

24. Nueva Vida – Northwest WichitaWoodland Baptist Church Building 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 • Sponsoring churches for building a new facility • Mission building teams for 2010 • Mission teams for VBS, surveys, evangelism, etc. • Prayer walks • Financial support for the first AWANA club in Spanish in Kansas • College student summer missionaries For more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312

25. Iglesia Bautista Buenas Nuevas 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 • School supplies • ESL classes • VBS, last year we had 90 in attendance and 15 decisions for Jesus in two sessions • Prayer walks • Soccer Camps • Evangelism • Daytime workers • Help with utilities • AWANAS Pastor Daniel Diaz with a donated car For more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312

26. Immanuel Hispanic Church 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. Ministry Needs • Financial Support for the de la Cruz Family • School supplies • ESL classes • Prayer walks • Soccer Camps • Evangelism • Daytime workers For more information contact Abraham Arevalo 316.371.4312

27. GODdard’s Place A 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 Needs • Remodeling teams • Funding for building and ministry costs • Teams for youth activity supervision • Volunteers for youth activities • Prayer partners For more information contact Loren Phippen 316.706.8406 or John Stockstill 316.619.0883

28. Young ProfessionalsNorthwest and Northeast Wichita, Kansas 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. Ministry Needs • A projector and sound equipment • Church plant pastor and core team members • Partnering churches: prayer, finances, mentoring • Mission teams to lead outreach events, evangelize, and canvass neighborhoods For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647

29. 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

30. 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 offering • Host a food drive to collect 2009 cans of food • Place us in your budget • Take a special offering on the fifth Sunday of the month • Recruit ten people to give $5 / week for one year • Donate used equipment • Fill a one gallon jar with coins • Take a missions offering in Sunday school For more information contact Mark Jackson 316.214.3647