Volume 22 • Issue 2 • March & April 2010

FinditHere.com
Director of Missions: Glenn Davis

It may be hard to realize, but spring is coming. And with spring comes our celebration of
the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus. If the Lord speaks through Christmas and says, “I’m
Calendar
March
in this with you.” Then the Lord speaks through Easter to say, “I am in this with you, no
matter the cost.”

The message of Easter is a message of hope. All who are dead in their transgressions 5 -6 KNCSB Youth Worship Arts Camp, WCC
and sin, can be made alive in Christ. This message is both our hope and our purpose. 6 KNCSB VBS Jumpstart Clinic, FSBC, Salina
This message is our hope because we have been made alive. This message is our pur-
8 Disaster Relief Meeting, HOKSBA, 11am
pose because we have been called to share it with others. Those around us are search-
ing. We can say to them, FinditHere. 13 WMU Planning Meeting, HOKSBA, 10am

The North American Mission Board is helping us reach the people of Wichita and Hut-
chinson with that message of hope. NAMB and KNCSB have purchased over 300 Fin-
ditHere.com television spots to be shown in the 3 weeks leading up to Easter. You can
April
view a sample of these spots at the FinditHere.com website. 4 Special Ed. Bowling, Seneca Bowl, 11am
8 VBS Associational Training, Sharon BC , 7pm
In conjunction with the TV spots, there are door hanger brochures available at the Heart
of Kansas office. If you would like to use these brochures to distribute in specific areas 12 Disaster Relief Meeting, HOKSBA, 11am
of the city, please contact Loren Phippen at the HOK office. There will also be FinditH- 13 HOKSBA Executive Board Meeting
ere.com yard banners for your church to display to connect what people are going to see
Westview BC, 10:30am
on TV with your local church.
17 WMU Annual Meeting, TBA
Easter is probably your best attendance day of the year. Why not use this day, when the 21 S.S. Team Meeting, Ryan’s, 12:30
un-churched are considering attending church, to invite them to your church? And when
24 10th Annual HOKSBA Golf Tournament
you do, make sure your church is ready to receive them. Give them a warm welcome.
Allow them to have a place where they can find a friend. And let your church be the Hesston, KS
place where they hear the message of Jesus Christ. Let your church be the place where
their darkness is changed to light, and their death is changed to life through the message
of our Risen Savior. Weekly Prayer Emphasis for

March
The “Buckets of Hope” ministry is just one means by
which Baptists can fulfill the mandate of Jesus Christ
to feed the hungry in the name of Jesus. As we are
reminded in Matthew 25:40, Jesus tells us, "And the Mar. 1 Sharon • Pastor Steve Tims
King shall answer and say unto them, 'Verily I say Mar. 8 South City • Pastor Pete Dominguez
unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of
the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Mar. 15 South Side • Pastor Marty Million
me.'" (KJV) Mar. 22 Trinity • Pastor Craig Atherton
Mar.29 Victory • Jermaine Pennington
For approximately $30 anyone can purchase the
materials and assemble a "Bucket of Hope." The
food contained in a single bucket will feed a Haitian
family for a week. You are also requested to include
April
a $10 contribution, to offset the cost of transporting
the relief buckets to Haiti. Apr. 5 New Life • Pastor Aaron Fenlason
Apr. 12 Parkview•
• Pastor Bruce Hays
Buckets must be packed with a specific list of food Apr. 19 Shalom Adonai•• Pastor Mike Saffle
items inside. Please follow the detailed instruc- Apr. 26 Southwest • Pastor D. Burchfiel
tions carefully. The instructions can be found at
www.hoksba.org or www.namb.net. 1 This will ensure
that every bucket quickly passes through customs
and into the hands of the Haitian people.
 Set Free Ministry
As I have mentioned before, an intricate part of the Set Free
ministry is to have a discipleship “ranch” to take people to after
they come in off the street. They would stay there sixty plus days.
The property needs to be a good distance from town, but close
enough for churches to help with Bible Studies and other volunteer
ministries. An ideal location would have an old farm house and
about 5 acres, either donated or have a reasonable long term
lease. Please keep this in prayer and let us know if you know
someone who could help with this.
Also, our men’s ministry leaders are working with members
of our churches to get a volunteer work/construction team to do
projects like those at the Set Free house.
We still need work groups from our churches to finish up the
drywall and painting. Over 95% of the drywall is hung and the sec-
ond floor has been painted. Once we finish hanging the drywall
and painting, we can start the flooring, cabinets and finish carpen-
try. Please contact Loren Phippen at HOKSBA.
Local Mission Trips for 2010
Mark Jackson, Church Planting Strategist
This next year promises to be a financially challenging one for many
of our families. Have you considered a local mission trip to avoid
travel and motel costs? Working within your local association can be
effective in terms of the impact on the Kingdom of God. We have
opportunities that can involve hours or days and the need is great.
By utilizing these short term opportunities along with a longer trip, all
of your folks could have an opportunity to be on mission for the Lord.
One Day or Less
• Prayer Walks/Drives (RiverFest, Good Neighbor Centers,
churches, church plants)
• Pass out fliers for outreach events
• Minor repairs at Good Neighbor Centers, churches, or in
your neighborhood
• Aluminum can drive
• Clean up, paint, repairs needed in local schools or
neighborhoods
• RiverFest outreach, workers
• Work at Set Free house
• Food drives/funds, clothing, school supplies for the Good
Neighbor Centers
• Block parties
• Juvenile Detention Center ministries
• Collect funds to support repair projects at churches
Multiple Days
• VBS/backyard Bible clubs
• Creative arts camp (voice, instrument, acting, dance, etc.)
• Sports camps
• Construction projects
• Surveys
• Door-to-door evangelism
• Revivals/outreach/block parties
• House a mission team
• Work at Set Free or Ranch
• Be a part of the FamilyFest July 10-16, 2010 (see accom-
panying article)
Evangelistic Mission Trips
Seventeen of us from Wichita went to the Rose Bowl parade outreach
from December 30th to January 1st. We worked with 150 volunteers
from around the country sharing the Gospel with people. We handed
out over 30,000 tracts and saw numerous people give their life to
Christ. Mark your calendar now to go with us next year.
We just got back from a safe and successful mission trip to New Or-
leans. We shared the Gospel for two fourteen hour days at Mardis
Gras. This is a very dark and sinful place that needs to hear the Gos-
pel. There were a total of seven of us from Wichita that worked with
another 30 men from around the country to hand out about 50,000
tracts. During the day we saw several people give their life to Christ. At
night, on Bourbon Street, we handed out tracts and were able to de-
fend our faith.
We would like to have enough men next year to take several van loads
from our area to witness in that very hard place. Men, please check
your calendars and pray to see how God would use you in this very
needy and rewarding ministry.
Evangelism Training
Loren Phippen, Evangelism Director
The Evangelism training is going great. This week I am starting a
class at one of our churches. This 4-6 week session is a combina-
tion between “Share Jesus Without Fear” and the “Evangecube”. I
would love to come to your church to help train your people on evan-
gelism and would be happy to schedule time to do hands-on training
in your neighborhood. Just call or email to schedule a training class.
River Fest
Loren Phippen, Evangelism Director
It is time to mark your calendars and make plans to participate in the
2010 River Fest outreach. Our outreach will be from May 13th to 15th.
We will have street evangelists here to work with you and to help
train our church members. Walking with Power will return this year
for our main event and will be with us on the street to share the Gos-
pel. We also plan on having a booth that will stamp horse shoes with
John 3:16 and personalize it for each person while they share the
Gospel. Our Cowboy church and our Equestrian ministries will be
involved in this outreach.
We also need face painters and help with the block party equipment.
We also welcome any praise and worship team/band that would like
to provide music before the main event.
As I mentioned last month, we would like to have more participation
this year from our churches and would like to see all of our church
members get involved with the block party and/or street witnessing.
We will be sending out signup sheets soon for the block party, music
groups and street witnessing.
For River Fest 2009, we had the best participation from our
churches that we have ever had and our prayer is to have even
more participate this year. Please contact me if you have any ques-
tions or if you have any ideas that would help make this event a
great success.
 FamilyFest ~ July 10-16, 2010 WMU
An Opportunity for a Family Mission Trip Ellen Noeller, WMU Director

FamilyFest is a partnership with the national Woman’s Missionary
Union, the Kansas/Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists, and
the Heart of Kansas Southern Baptist Association. It is designed
to give families (age six and up) a prepackaged missions experi-
ence.
How You Can Participate
Think about the needs in the community around your church. How
could FamilyFest volunteers assist you and your church members
in meeting some of these needs? These volunteers could work on
anything you have a vision for: Vacation Bible School, Backyard
Bible Clubs, light construction, sport camps, survey work, etc. Per-
haps some families in your church would like to travel across town
to help another church.
Work Projects Needed
We are looking for work projects for these mission teams to work
on. This could include almost anything: building repairs, VBS,
Backyard Bible Clubs, block parties, health fairs, canvassing,
prayer walks, etc. Please contact the Heart of Kansas for a re-
quest form.
For more information contact Mark Jackson at 316-943-3446,
mark@hoksba.org or Ellen Noeller, WMU Director, at 316-215-
0135, jenoell@prodigy.net.
The Heart of Kansas Women’s Conference will be on April 24th
at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Wichita from 8:30-2:00 p.m.
Come and enjoy the 9 different conferences as well as the fel-
lowship. Alpha Goombi will be our speaker and she will also be
leading one of the conferences. If you did not receive a flyer
about this event, please contact Ellen Noeller.
Also, mark your calendar for the Family Picnic at RiverFest on
May 15, 2010.
Good Neighbor Centers
Our Good Neighbor Centers are still doing a great job serv-
ing the needy and hurting in our community. Our GNCs are in
need of funds and food. The needs in Wichita are continually
growing and all of our centers need your assistance. Many laid
off workers in Wichita are running out of unemployment and we
have seen a large increase of new families coming to our cen-
ters.
At 16 cents per pound, we can purchase food at the Food
Bank which makes our dollars go so much further. I would love to
come and speak to your church or SS class on the needs of the
GNCs and how we can help. At times our GNCs are in need of
good used freezers. If you have one that you are not using and
would like to donate please contact Loren Phippen at HOKSBA.

The Mission’s Valentine Event

Brad Simmons , Student Ministry

Since 2005, each February, save one, has brought The Mission's Valentines Event. What be-
gan as a small musical/dance production by ten or so students that drew around fifty in atten-
dance grew into a musical-movie-drama requiring forty or so workers, and drawing nearly 400
in attendance. This year's Valentines event added a new element: food. The Mission hosted its
first Valentines Dinner Theater on Saturday, February 6th at Olivet Baptist Church.

The drama, "Love Please, Nothing Else," told the story of Sara, a girl whose rosy outlook on the
world grew dark as she faced rejection and betrayal at school. In the end she realizes that even
though the world isn't as great as she hoped, she doesn't have to give in to its ways, and in-
stead decides to believe in love and hope.

After the drama, I shared about how the world isn't the world we all want, but God has promised
to someday give us that world. I told about how Jesus gave us a glimpse of that world by bring-
ing joy where there was sadness, life where there was death and health where there had been
sickness. I challenged the audience to consider Jesus' claim to be the one through which God
would bring the world we all want, and to give him a fair look by reading about him in the Bible. Some students took home a New Testament.

The following day, at our regular Sunday service, I challenged our students to engage their friends in conversations about the event. I re-
minded them that this would be one of the easiest, and most natural times to ask them questions about what they think about Jesus, and then
share what they themselves believe. We continue to pray for the harvest that will come.

If you would like to see pictures and video from the event, you can see them at www.themission.cc.

I would like to give a special thanks to Olivet Baptist Church, for the use of their building and Pastor Ron Pracht, for the time he helped us while
we were using their building, I'd also like to thank Sharon Baptist Church, and Midway Baptist Church for allowing us to use their vans to trans-
port students from Wichita State to Olivet Baptist Church. I would also like to credit the evangelistic Bible study book "The World We All Want"
by Tim Chester & Steve Timmis, for the inspiration for the message.
TEACHING TO ALL LEARNERS
From the Sunday School Team

It doesn’t take long for a teacher to discover that within their classroom of learners there are varied learning styles. This is true, regardless
of the age of the learner. One of the challenges for the teacher is to develop a teaching strategy which will ultimately reach every learner. This
can be done! In fact, every learner can have the opportunity in each lesson to spend time in their preferred learning style. Simply, here are the
four generally accepted learning styles and the sequence by which the teacher can teach to the style of each learner.
The Imaginative Learner performs best in a setting which allows interpersonal relationships to develop. They learn best by listening and
sharing ideas. The question you must answer for the Imaginative Learner is “WHY do I need to know this?”
The Analytic Learner expects the teacher to be the primary information giver. Accordingly, they learn best by watching and listening.
These learners want all the data before they make a decision. The question you must answer for the Analytic Learner is “WHAT do I need to
know?”
The Common Sense Learner likes to play with ideas to see if they are rational and workable. They are hands-on people who like to get
the job done. They learn best when learning is combined with doing. The question you must answer for the Common Sense Learner is “HOW
does this work?”
The Dynamic Learner excels in following hunches and sensing new directions and possibilities. They are risk takers who like putting their
personal stamp of originality on an idea. The question you must answer for the Dynamic Learner is “WHAT can this become?”
“The four different learning styles actually fit together into a learning cycle. If the teacher follows the four steps in the cycle, every student
will have an opportunity to learn and share his or her contributions…” (from Learning Styles – Reaching Everyone God Gave You by Marlene
LeFever)
You may be wondering, why is this important? (the same question the Imaginative Learner asks.) If we are going to teach, we want to
reach all learners. While 30% of learners are Analytic (we really like these students because they appear focused on learning), 70% of learners
fall into the other three learning styles. As a teacher, you will most likely focus your teaching to the style in which you prefer learning. Accord-
ingly, a Common Sense teacher will most easily accommodate the Common Sense Learner. Perhaps you need to begin by using a simple as-
sessment to determine your Learning Style (also available in LeFever’s book). Once you make this discovery, you can better plan your lesson
to strengthen your teaching to all four styles. A teacher who is unaware of style may be missing students God has assigned them to reach.

10th Annual HOKSBA

Golf Tournament
Over the past 9 years the over-
whelming response to the ques-
tion “What did you like most
about the tournament?” has
been “The Fellowship!” If you
haven’t played in the tourna-
ment previously and you do
play golf, sign up early.

This is a “FELLOWSHIP” golf

All entries are individual or 2-some – you will be paired with people from other churches Husbands & tournament with the primary
Wives will play on the same team (unless otherwise noted) and a family can play on the same Team. Requests purpose of developing fellow-
ship among the churches in our
to sign up as a 3-some or 4-some will only be considered if all are in the same family. This event may also be
association. We highly encour-
used for church Outreach Contact the Tournament Director if you have any questions.
age individual sign-up. How-
*Note: In case of bad weather, we will play if at all possible. That is not the case for lunch. Come rain or ever, last year we started allow-
snow, we will have the luncheon starting at 1:00 p.m. Should you have questions, please contact the Tourna- ing two people to sign-up to
ment Director, Charley Powell at 691-1215 (h), 977-0675 (w), 650-1959 (c), xtremegolfer2@cox.net or your play together. We had positive
church coordinator. results and will continue to allow
two-somes to sign up again this
Return this section with your registration money year. Whether you sign up as
an individual or as a two-some,
Player #1____________________________ Avg Score or Official Handicap___________
you will be paired with people
Phone: ____________________________ E-mail Address_______________________ from other churches to make up
Name of Church______________________ Church Staff Position (if applicable)_____________ your foursome. We attempt to
(While we are allowing two people to sign up together, we still highly encourage individual sign-up) make the teams as even as
possible based on your average
Player #2____________________________ Avg Score or Official Handicap___________ declared score. Husbands and
Phone: ____________________________ E-mail Address_______________________ wives will play together unless
Name of Church______________________ Church Staff Position (if applicable)_____________ the wife desires to play on an
(personal data will not be given out – used for golf tournament contact only) “all ladies” team; a family can
play together. This can be used
*Please identify any student golfers (high school & under) and deduct $5.00 from Registration Fee as an outreach event. If you
they are ineligible to win prizes per KSHSAA rules. have questions, please contact
*Women: Please note if you wish to play with your spouse or on an ALL WOMEN’S TEAM the Tournament Director, Char-
*Mail entry form with entry fee made payable to HOKSBA ley Powell.
Heart Of Kansas SBA, Attn: Golf Tournament, 3474 S. Meridian, Wichita, KS 67217
 Heart of Kansas SBA
Celebrate Recovery Non-Designated Income
By: Tom Melton CHURCHES JAN. 10 2010 YTD
Aviator 500.00 500.00
Many times a newcomer in CR will ask me how long recovery will take. Many times I Believers 943.14 943.14
will respond “how long have you been trapped in your behavior?” Even though our Calvary, VC 1,579.88 1,579.88
hurts, habits and hang-ups do not develop over night, we hope that we can get Cambodian - -
through the process of breaking them with as little pain and in as little time as possi- Cedar Pointe 285.24 285.24
ble.
Celebration - -
Country Acres 1,000.00 1,000.00
Recently a man walked into our CR meeting whom I met in 1985. Addiction had
stripped him of all self-worth, self-decency and self-respect. He had been through Crosspointe - -
one recovery program after another, but nothing seemed to work for him. He Crossroads 49.97 49.97
claimed to be saved, so I asked him to look at his life and review the evidence of his Crusaders - -
salvation. I can not judge a man’s salvation, but if he is not bearing fruits of salvation Faith, Andover - -
and the evidence of a changed life, there is something wrong. First, Haysville 666.61 666.61
First, Maize 86.00 86.00
I told him that he had two problems: a love problem (Matthew 6:24) and an endur- First, Mulvane - -
ance problem (Hebrews 12:1-4). He wanted salvation without repentance and com- FSBC, Hutchinson - -
mitment. He wanted victory without perseverance. This person could recite the 12 Harmony - -
steps of AA and even give you the page numbers out of the Big Book. He had been
Iglesia Buenas Nuevas 35.00 35.00
in and out of church and had knowledge of scriptures, but he had failed to connect
Iglesia Emmanuel - -
all his head knowledge to his heart. We must allow God to work in us the Word of
God. Iglesia Getsemani 201.49 201.49
Iglesia LaRedencion 50.00 50.00
Iglesia Nueva Vida 77.00 77.00
Homeless Ministry Immanuel, Newton - -
Immanuel, Vietnamese - -
By: Deborah Long
Immanuel, Wichita 2,069.75 2,069.75
Indian Southern - -
Homeless people are people too. We served 150 people with food and clothing as Journey The Way - -
well as 60 personal care packages. If you have any old or new sleeping bags or
Lao Baptist 50.00 50.00
backpacks we could use them. We also need volunteers to help in our clothes
Metro East 2,279.85 2,279.85
closet. We are looking for someone to help with the bookkeeping for the Homeless
Ministry. If you would be willing to serve in any of these areas, contact Deborah at Metropolitan 2,524.53 2,524.53
316-204-9517. Midway 676.57 676.57
New Birth Christian - -
New Life Community - -
V.B.S. - REACHING THE UNSAVED Ninnescah Valley - -
Old Time Gospel 31.00 31.00
The highlight of the summer calendar for most churches is Vacation Bible Olivet 949.64 949.64
School. Regardless of whether your church uses a curriculum from Lifeway or Parkview 289.33 289.33
another publishing company, V.B.S. continues to reach the unsaved. In 2008 Planeview - -
(according to Lifeway sources), over 2.8 million people were enrolled in Vaca- Pleasantview, Derby 1,215.24 1,215.24
tion Bible School with more than 86,000 decisions to accept Christ as Savior. Prairie Trail 743.52 743.52
More people have come to know Jesus as Savior through V.B.S. than through Randall Road - -
any other single outreach event. River Community - -
Riverview 283.74 283.74
Now is the time to begin planning your church’s 2010 Vacation Bible School.
Rolling Hills 459.00 459.00
To assist you in this effort, the Kansas-Nebraska Convention and the Heart of
Shalom Adonai - -
Kansas Southern Baptist Association makes available training opportunities
Sharon 927.49 927.49
for V.B.S. workers.
South City - -
Southside - -
The Kansas-Nebraska training event will be on Saturday, March 6th at First
Southwest 91.67 91.67
Southern Baptist Church in Salina, Kansas. If you need additional information,
contact the Convention Office at 800-984-9092. Southwind Fellowship 183.10 183.10
The Mission - -
Closer to home, the HOKSBA will offer V.B.S. worker training on Thursday, Trinity - -
April 8th from 7 to 9 p.m. at Sharon Baptist Church in Wichita. Breakout ses- True Life - -
sions will be provided for: V.B.S. Directors; preschool; children (grades 1-2); Tyler Road 333.35 333.35
children (grades 3-4) children (grades 5-6); crafts; music; missions; recrea- Victory - -
tion; and for churches interested in utilizing the V.B.S. materials for Spanish Westview - -
speakers. All HOKSBA training sessions will focus on Lifeway’s “Saddle Wichita Korean - -
Ridge Ranch” curriculum with the exception of the V.B.S. Director’s training Woodland 132.00 132.00
which will be non-curriculum specific. For more information on the HOKSBA TOTAL CHURCH GIFTS 18,714.11 18,714.11
training, contact Terry Beasley at 684-5156.
*Contributions received after the last day of the
month will be recorded into the following month.
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Juvenile Detention Ministry

Vision Tour 2010 Loren Phippen, Evangelism Director

God has blessed us in this ministry. We see

many lives changed at JDF and at the Boy’s
April 26, 2010 6 PM ranch. The ranch has allowed me for the last
April 27, all day year or so to sign out 2 boys every Saturday
morning at 5 am to take them fishing. For some
A Heart for the Cities Check out the of them this has been their first time fishing or
Church planting going to the lake. It has helped to deepen the
of the Heart of Kansas Opportunities relationships to the point that some of them stay
in contact with me after getting released. I am
Southern Baptist Association able to disciple them and get them connected to
one of our churches. In January, I had the privi-
Catch the Vision Meals during the tour lege of seeing one of the boys I had been work-
Join the Mission are provided ing with, and had taken fishing, get baptized at
one of our churches. Praise God!

Opportunity for Please continue to pray for this ministry and your
involvement in it by donating your time or provid-
pastors, staff, Heart of Kansas Southern ing funds for Bibles and other needs. In particu-
and mission- Baptist Association lar, we need youth pastors and workers who
could give a night every few months or so to help
minded leaders Mark Jackson in JDF. This would give a connection for them to
3474 S. Meridian
to learn of local Wichita, Kansas 67217 continue being discipled after they are released.
Some of these kids have never really had some-
opportunities http://www.hoksba.org one who loved and cared for them and they des-
Phone: 316.943.3446 perately need that.