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IBSA Calendar
          March 10, 2010   

March
10Youth Week
11Church Planting Basic Training, Des Plaines
Youth Week
12Building Powerful Ministry Teams
Youth Week
Church Planting Basic Training, Des Plaines
13Iron SharpensIron Men's Conference, Springfield
Children’s Mission Day
Youth Week
Church Planting Basic Training, Des Plaines
Building Powerful Ministry Teams
14Youth Week
19Southern Illinois RA Congress/Missons Rally, Benton
20Vacation Bible Shool Clinic, Decatur
Southern Illinois RA Congress/Missons Rally, Benton
25Mississippi River Ministries Substance Abuse and Recovery Ministries Training
26Church Planting Basic Training, Springfield
27Vacation Bible School Clinic, Peoria
Church Planting Basic Training, Springfield
28Palm Sunday
Start a Church Sunday


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Haiti judge frees 1 Baptist volunteer
By Staff, bpnews.net
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (BP) | A Haiti judge freed one of two remaining Baptist volunteers Monday but kept the group's leader in jail pending further investigation.
Illinois Baptist bikers to ‘Rally at Ridgecrest’
SPRINGFIELD | The IBSA Motorcycle Ministry is once again inviting Illinois Baptist bikers to participate in the Motorcycle Rally to Ridgecrest Memorial Day weekend event to honor America’s fallen heroes.
Buckets of Hope for Haiti collection dates have changed
By Meredith Day, communication specialist

SPRINGFIELD | The Northern, Southern and Metro East collection dates for the Buckets of Hope campaign have changed.  The Central collection dates remain the same. Buckets of Hope is a nationwide Southern Baptist effort to help Haitian families in need of basic necessities after January's earthquake.

The locations and dates are:

IBSA SALT training April 16-17 in Decatur
By Lisa Sergent, associate editor
SPRINGFIELD | The Illinois Baptist State Association (IBSA) is gearing up to host Directors of Missions (DOMs) and local association leadership at the April 16-17 State Associational Leadership Training (SALT).
Shoveling with Don
By Nate Adams, Executive Director, IBSA

The storms in my life these days are arriving primarily in the form of snow. Snowfall where I live is 44 percent higher than normal this winter, and the morning after the last blizzard passed, everyone in my neighborhood was left with some pretty heavy consequences.