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

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."