Illinois Baptist News journal of the Illinois Baptist State Association
OCTOBER 03, 2016
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Vol. 110 No. 14
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‘Should I stay or should I go?’ Nate Adams on the Annual Meeting in Chicago P. 2
Sign up for Tours & Meals IBSAannualmeeting.org P. 13
Pastors & Politics
Some endorse candidates, some don’t. Here’s why.
A Heart for Missions It’s Cooperative Program Month P. 11
DISASTER RELIEF
More workers recruited Nationwide ‘all-call’ to flood zone P. 5
CHURCH FINANCES
Staff compensation Salaries up, benefits down
PLUS: New survey from the pews P. 7
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METRO EAST
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Big day for church starts Three congregations launched September 18 BY MORGAN JACKSON
How does your Sunday school stack up? P. 14
When three new churches held their inaugural worship services September 18, it was an answer to prayer, said IBSA’s Van Kicklighter. “The Church Planting Team regularly prays Luke 10:2 (or Matthew 9), where Jesus acknowledges ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few’ and then challenges us to ‘pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest,’” said Kicklighter, associate executive director for church planting. “As we have prayed, God has blessed us with a season where he has provided ‘laborers.’” P. 4
KICKLIGHTER