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Welcome to our Digital Newsletter

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Welcome to our New Digital Newsletter Format

DRAPER. UT – Welcome to the Utah-Idaho Connections’ new format, a fully interactive online newsletter.

This year we are welcoming six churches to our state convention. They have been approved by our Credentials Committee and the Executive Board. Two are existing churches who choose to affiliate with us so they can do more with sister churches than on their own.  The other churches are plants with three in Idaho and one in Oregon.

We now have 193 churches, missions, and church plants. Our state convention missionary staff may be less than other state conventions, but they are passionate about our three priorities: Sharing Christ, Starting Churches, and Strengthening Churches.

We are thankful for your gifts through the Cooperative Program (CP) and State Missions Offering (SMO), which fund our state convention mission endeavors 100%.  For the 5th year in a row, we surpassed our CP budget. Your gifts to our SMO nearly reached our goal of $95,000, with the highest amount given since 2013. 100% of the SMO stays here to assist Collegiate Ministries, Disaster Relief, Sharing Christ, Starting Churches, and Strengthening Churches. Thank you, Utah-Idaho Southern Baptists! 

Last SBC financial year (October 2020-September 2021) marked the most our Utah-Idaho Southern Baptist Convention has forwarded nationally through the CP sending $241,500. We sent over $401,500 to Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, and Global Hunger Relief. Since our founding, your state convention has forwarded $5,222,108 to missions!

It is crazy how this past year has been. Our churches have creatively figured out how to continue to share the gospel. The pandemic opened many doors in our region that were previously locked to the gospel. Instead, it was being beamed into their homes via the internet with live and taped worship services. More people have access to the gospel and our pastors’ sermons are beamed around the globe literally living out Acts 1:8. This is something only God could do. 

Rob Lee, Convention Missionary
Executive Director/Treasurer
Utah Idaho SBC

For more information contact


Rob Lee

Executive Director

rlee@uisbc.org

801.572.5350 ext. 3

Dustin Hope Valley

New churches join and plants launch in Utah and Idaho

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UT/ID- September has been a busy month in church planting across Utah and Idaho. We also had a couple of churches pass full board approval for membership into UISBC. 

We want to welcome Water’s Edge Fellowship in Burley, ID as a full Executive Board approved church who has been meeting since [insert launch date here] and will be able to seat their own messengers at our upcoming annual meeting in Meridian, ID.  Pastor Dave Carver has given over two decades of ministry service to Utah and Idaho churches and is a leading church in the Magic Valley Association in baptisms [verify]. Find out more about Water’s Edge on their website at watersedgeidaho.org

We also welcome Gospel Grace Church meeting in the heart of Salt Lake City, who is now full Executive Board approved member of UISBC and will be able to seat their own messengers at our upcoming annual meeting. Gospel Grace is a church planting church, which started when four families moved to the Salt Lake Valley in November of 2011 and began a church planting movement. Over the next several years, GG would go on to plant Gospel Hope in Riverton, UT and Gospel Peace in Logan, UT, all while the original Gospel Grace church continues to grow and thrive. Their entire church planting story can be found on their website, gospelgrace.com. 

Celebrate with us these new churches and church plants across Utah and Idaho.

  • Gospel Peace in Logan, UT
  • Hope Valley in West Jordan, UT
  • Resonate Collegiate Church at UofU in Salt Lake City, UT
  • Nueva Esperanza in Caldwell, ID
  • Nueva Esperanza in Ontario, OR
  • Twin Falls Community Church in Twin Falls, ID

God is working faithfully through people across our two states. Hearts are being transformed and lives changed. Pray for these churches and their sponsoring ministries as they seek to impact communities across Utah and Idaho with the live changing gospel of Jesus Christ.