Richard Nations

DES MOINES, Iowa (BP)--Two days: one bleak and one sunny.       The first day was in November, 1991. My wife, Rachel, and I traveled to Iowa City, Iowa with our son, Philip, age 5 at the time.

DES MOINES, Iowa (BP)–Familiar yellow Southern Baptist disaster relief shirts and hats were prominent at the 13th annual session of the Baptist Convention of Iowa Nov. 14-15 as messengers thanked more than 60 workers who were among those who responded to the state’s widespread flooding during the past year. Jimmy Barrentine, the convention’s executive director, […]

KEOKUK, Iowa (BP)–Investigators have not ruled out arson in an early morning fire that destroyed the educational wing and pastor’s office of Bethany Baptist Church in Keokuk, Iowa, Sept. 19. The Keokuk Fire Department was called to the 151–year-old historic structure at 1:30 a.m. and the structure was heavily damaged before firefighters brought the blaze […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (BP)--Disaster relief units from 13 Baptist state conventions remain onsite in Iowa, where efforts at restoring a region devastated by massive flooding and strong tornadoes have reached ...

LAMONT, Iowa (BP)--Flood debris sitting in the sun produced a foul odor in Lamont, Iowa, a small town of 490 people about 35 miles east of Waterloo. Some residents piled debris on the curb for sanitation workers to haul away, but they were at a loss for what to do next.

DES MOINES, Iowa (BP)--Iowa continues to reel from an onslaught of destructive weather as rains again drenched the state Wednesday causing widespread flooding, and another tornado hit adding death to the destruction, killing four scouts and injuring 48 others at a Boy Scout camp outside Little Sioux.

DES MOINES, Iowa (BP)–Messengers to the 12th annual meeting of the Baptist Convention of Iowa increased the BCI annual budget by 5 percent and renewed their mission and ministries partnership with the Tennessee Baptist Convention to 2010. Based on Galatians 6:1-10, the theme of the Nov. 2-3 sessions in Des Moines was “Hold to One […]

WALCOTT, Iowa (BP)—Truck stop chaplain Larry Pruitt quickly turns away from the reporter's question as a truck driver approaches his booth during the "Truckers' Jamboree" -– a festival held each July at the I-80 Truck Stop in eastern Iowa.

WAYLAND, Iowa (BP)--Iowa Baptists’ disaster relief feeding unit was dispatched Feb. 28 to assist residents in southeast Iowa who had been without electricity since a Feb. 25 ice storm knocked out power across much of that part of the state.

DES MOINES, Iowa (BP)--The Baptist Convention of Iowa combined its 11th annual meeting with its annual Partners in Ministry Retreat, which messengers said enhanced both events Nov. 2-3 at the Holiday Inn and Suites in Des Moines.