Illinois Baptist pioneering spirit
Churches take up the challenge
Too scared to share?
We can overcome that. Doug Munton Illinois Voices P. 6
inmission focus
Now the work begins
Illinois | Just three months into the new year, 115 churches have accepted the Pioneering Spirit Challenge. That’s more than halfway to IBSA’s 2018 goal of 200 or more churches. But for those churches—and for all of us—the work is just beginning. The Pioneering Spirit Challenge, timed to coincide with Illinois’ bicentennial year, seeks to bring frontier fortitude to Baptist work today. Our forebears lived in trying times, meeting danger head-on, and forging a new state. Many of them brought solid Christian faith to the hard-won territory, and many of those first Illinoisans were Baptists. If the concepts of wilderness, lostness, and battle seem familiar, it’s P. 4
Your move
Children demonstrate the gospel across Illinois on annual ministry day P. 9
IB Online all the time IllinoisBaptist.org News journal of the Illinois Baptist State Association
MARCH 19, 2018
Nonprofit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID Peoria, Illinois Permit No. 325
Vol. 112 No. 4
The home team
Families reach out, together P. 7
DISASTER RELIEF
Faith follows flooding Temporary trouble has eternal outcome P. 4
MINISTRY NEWS
Ruling protested
Housing allowance in danger P. 3
TABLE TALK IN FOCUS: Creating an evangelistic environment P. 5
News cycle exhaustion But thankfully, there’s a cure P. 11