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Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention2 days ago
Our Utah-Idaho Women's Conference is just a few weeks away!
You are invited to join us as we gather on October 22 beginning at 9:30am at Canyons Church for worship and inspiration with our guest speaker, Ali Everett, from Beaverton, Oregon.

Two breakout sessions will give you the opportunity to choose from conference options for learning from God's Word, discovering ministry/outreach opportunities, hearing from a missionary who served in the Middle East, and a session for pastor's wives and Spanish speakers.

Lunch will be provided with registration. Register now at uisbc.org/annual-convention
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention2 weeks ago
*Hotel room block EXTENDED through October 1!*
It's already almost time for this year's Annual Meeting! We can't wait to have everyone together at Canyons Church in SLC, UT!
Get your messengers registered, register for the Pastors' and Women's Conferences, and even a Send Network lunch on Friday.
Check out the schedules and make plans to be there!
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention2 weeks ago
To God be the glory.
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention2 weeks ago
Praying with you as one of our network churches has launched a new work in Garland, UT. Pray for pastor Jason, his wife, his family, and his team as they plant Redemption - Bear River.
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention3 weeks ago
This Friday marks 25 years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that transformed our nation and the world in so many ways. We want to give you an opportunity to share your memories from that day.

We are getting the ball rolling with a report from our own Karen Willoughby, National Correspondent for BP News and UI Connections contributer.

"Baptist Press had sent me to Israel on an Israeli tourism board’s 5-star junket in September 2001. About a dozen of us on Sept. 11 were standing in the midst of a near circle of dilapidated Corinthian columns when someone's phone went off. Then someone else's. Pretty quickly we were in a tight group, hearing the news. I thought to myself, "Wow, just like these columns, America could crumble." At that moment, we heard the first tower had crumbled. That same word!

The tourism leaders every day took us to different historic sites – we saw where Jesus fed the 5,000, how the people came around both sides of the Galilee; we were in a boat like the one Jesus was on in that same Sea of Galilee; we ate lunch in Nazareth and saw an ancient olive press in operation, and much more – and every night we were glued to CNN International News.

I rode a camel down to Petra one day, and was washing my hands in a rest room when a woman in a hijab came in. “I’m so sorry for your trouble,” she said gently, with a sad smile to the stranger who apparently was obviously an American. My first thought was, “What trouble am I in? Did the camel die from me being on it?” Then I realized she meant the Twin Towers collapsing, and I was comforted by the kind heart of this Muslim woman.

We were one of the first planes permitted to land at JFK in New York City 10 days later. From the air we could see the sky was still brown with dust from the terrorist attack.

Baptist Press didn't want an "Israel was great!" article so soon after 9/11."
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention3 weeks ago
Week of Prayer for State Missions, September 6-13, 2026.
This year’s theme is:
PRAYER: BE ALL IN
As we Pray, Prepare, Participate, Partner, Provide, Propel, and Praise, we serve together. The Great Commission calls us to share the gospel with everyone across Idaho and Utah, to start new churches, and to strengthen all our churches to His glory.

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