As we enter a new school year, we want to recognize several new beginnings in ministries across our district.

The District Board of Overseers met on February 21-22 in Omaha. While the Heartland District got hit with a blizzard, the overseers worked on ministry plans to see the district intentionally advance and grow over the next three years.

Steve Krier met with pastors, potential church planters, and prospective ministry residents at the annual Pastors' Conference hosted by Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis.

Though we still have two feet of standing snow in our yard, spring is eventually coming, and so is South Dakota’s class-action lawsuit against Punxsutawney Phil! Seasons change, and transitions eventually occur regardless of our readiness or restlessness!

Thank you for your ongoing support of Ukrainian relief efforts. The following three reports from Ukrainian front-line ministries directly result from your sacrificial giving.

If the Heartland population has collectively mastered one skill, it is that we know how to grow stuff. From North Dakota to Oklahoma, we grow corn, beans, hay, wheat, cotton, livestock, energy reserves, families, small businesses, and grit.

Members of The Fount Church in Kansas City have exciting plans to share the good news and love of Jesus Christ with their community at regular Famer's Markets, Truth Symposiums, Campus Ministries, and Redeeming Work.

A RECORD HAS BEEN BROKEN! 2022 was the strongest giving year in Converge Heartland's history. In the face of inflation, recession, and nations at war, your generosity has powerfully shone forth! Here are some amazing generosity figures from 2022. Together with your financial gifts, we saw...

With your generous donations, our Incarcerated Ministry Chaplains and volunteers bring hope and joy to the inmates they serve during the Christmas season.

Exciting changes are ahead for Harvest Plains Church, a Converge Heartland church plant in Casselton, ND!

Earlier this month, the South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team celebrated winning its first National Championship. My 18-year-old son, Cole, and I were eyewitnesses. The game was great, but as my son and I talked about the entire experience, what stood out the most was the beginning-to-end spirit of celebration.

"As the father has sent me, even so I am sending you." John 20:21b ESV

How did you become a church planter? How did you get connected to Converge?

People often ask me these questions. They are important questions and ones I am happy to answer. The simplest answer to this question is relationships.

I am blessed to connect and communicate with our Ukrainian ministry partners. Sometimes the cross-cultural component of these connections can be hilarious!

"I want to show people the love of Christ!" Kendra told me when I asked for her vision for her ministry.

After the U.S. Constitution was completed, Benjamin Franklin famously wrote, "Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes." Death and taxes are two things that church budgets need to consider, especially when it comes to ministers.

God is at work in our church plants. Below are God stories from our church planting pastors around the Heartland District. Please take a moment to praise God and pray for His blessing on our church plants.

"Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work..." (Titus 3:1)

During the 2022 Cultivate Conference, we highlighted two missionary families. We did this specifically to encourage you to support them. Get ahold of them through their contact information below, and let them excite your church for global missions!

In January 2020, the ten districts of Converge stacked hands and committed to starting 312 churches by the end of 2026. Converge Heartland committed to starting seven of those 312 churches, growing our district by more than ten percent. To date, we have launched two of those seven -- Gospel Life Church in Wichita, KS, and Arrows Church in Papillion, NE.