Community

Leatherwood Church: The Pull

The church held their first Tractor Sunday, a gathering where people drove their tractors to the church to show them off, much like a car show, and everybody brought a sack lunch.

Mosaic Christian Community: Sacred Settlements

The church built a tiny home community on church property.

A Light in the Dark: How a Family’s Faithful Presence Is Transforming North Omaha

"When every Christian leverages what God has given in their time, their talent, their treasures and prayer, we think the greatest challenges of our city can be changed." -Josh Dotzler

Getting in the Game: Pickleball

People at the church gather for games and, midway through, have a three-minute devotion. When they aren’t playing, they sit and talk. The church uses pickleball both for in-house reach and outreach as members invite friends and neighbors to come play.

Canine Comfort Ministry

With comfort dogs Louie and Jackson, the church not only helped community members recover from the tornado, but also visited public schools, nursing homes and hospitals with the animals.

Down to a Fine Art

One day each year, the church holds their Creative Discovery event where local residents can come to the church and discover their own gifts by trying their hand at various artistic pursuits.

More Than S’mores

What foster kids crave the most is to be shown that they are worthy of love.

Building Bridges to Our Muslim Neighbors

Neighborly Faith is encouraging dinner and dialogue between Muslims and Christians.

Bible Training Behind Bars

Sugar Creek conducts Wednesday night worship services at the unit and offers a Malachi Dads program designed to help incarcerated fathers learn how to be effective parents.

Sharing Jesus in Wartime

BSC is a small congregation comprised mostly of first-generation immigrants from such Slavic countries as Belarus, Russia, Moldova, Armenia and Ukraine. The church had been doing missions work in Ukraine for decades.

Dinner With Special Friends

Manley Baptist Church now has a robust special needs ministry called Special Friends, and offers three Sunday school classes for those people with special needs—one for children, one for adults and a third for parents of children with special needs.