In the midst of this summer’s activities, Converge Heartland Regional President Jim Capaldo invites you to join him in praying intentionally for the youth in our families, churches, communities, and district.

In the first of a series of posts introducing you to new and familiar faces around the Heartland, we’d like you to meet Ryan Austin, Pastor of First Baptist Church of Sibley, IA, a new affiliation to Converge Heartland.

Converge Heartland Director of Church Planting Steve Krier challenges all of us to reignite the passion for gospel service in the hearts of our youth, inviting them to consider if God is calling them to ministry.

Converge Heartland Missions Project Coordinator Dave Moore shares how MissionInsite has helped him as a pastor and can benefit you and your leaders as well.

Praying God’s word is the key to overcoming arrested prayer development. God’s word is full of riches that enable you to pray with greater depth, insight, hope, confidence, and joy. Director of Prayer First Dana Olson shares how to pray with echoes of Nehemiah’s prayer. 

Converge Heartland Church Catalyst Chase Hill speaks with Jim Hayes, Lead Pastor at The Fount Church in Kansas City, about their residency program (they call it “apprenticeship”) and why it’s baked into their DNA as a church.

The storm that ripped through Elkhorn, NE, was categorized as an EF-3 tornado. Its 165-mph winds leveled neighborhoods and uprooted hundreds, if not thousands, of lives. Heights Church and Converge Heartland are in a prime position to lead and join the long haul of relief work.

Converge Heartland Regional President Jim Capaldo shares his gratitude for those in this district, as well as his desire to finish well as his second term of service comes to an end. What’s next for Jim and Kari Capaldo? Read more to find out.

After retiring from the Army Reserve, Trevor Bittner had the freedom to commit more time to ministry. That’s when a quick Google search led him to the Residency Program at Center Baptist Church.

The weekend after Easter, 26 ministry couples gathered in Lincoln, NE for the annual RENEW retreat for pastors and their wives.

On March 31, 2024, Christians worldwide united in celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. We are proud to share stories of how our Heartland Planters, a community deeply rooted in faith and fellowship, played a significant role in bringing gospel transformation to their communities.

Now that the climactic Easter services are complete, what does your church’s visitor follow-up look like? Better yet, what do your church’s outreach efforts look like when it’s not a holiday? Converge Heartland wants to help your church with follow-up and outreach in two ways.

Cody Weckerly, Converge Heartland Church Catalyst, shares a powerful story of God’s faithfulness to The Well, a Converge Heartland church in Hastings, NE.

Pastors and leaders met at Converge Church in Omaha March 4–6 for a time of focused prayer in an atmosphere of worship and fellowship. This was a happy return to the facility in the Harvey Oaks neighborhood where the very first prayer gathering—then called “A Fire in Winter”—was held in 1992.

In the ongoing chaos of war, what an incredible blessing to witness a gathering of nearly one thousand Ukrainian, American and other national leaders, all converging in Washington, D.C., for Ukrainian Week, a focus on prayer and mutual encouragement!

This month, we continue our short series of articles introducing men in our Church Residency Program. Meet Sid Fry, Church Resident at Ignite Church.

Before this summer’s Converge Biennial Meeting at Heartland Church in Fisher’s Indiana, our movement will facilitate an electronic ratification vote for the Converge President, which carries a six-year term. This nationwide ratification vote is one of our denomination’s expressions of congregational governance, and your church’s participation matters!  

On February 4th, 2024, Gospel Life Church in Wichita, KS, moved into a new space. Our new space will afford GLC opportunities to reach our neighborhood for Christ; we can be the vibrant, connected and kingdom-minded church God has called us to be for our neighbors.

This month, we continue our short series of articles introducing men in our Church Residency Program. Meet Caiden Capaldo, Church Resident at Sun Prairie Baptist Church.

Converge Great Lakes Regional President Ken Nabi argues both theologically and practically for congregational rule with a representative authority by way of the elders who shepherd the church through spiritual oversight and fully implement that oversight through the staff.