![]() ![]() “Clifton has a passion for and an understanding of the greater Kansas City region that combined with his more than 25 years of SBC mission leadership will make him a real asset to the churches in the Blue River-Kansas City Association,” the press release stated. He is married to Jill and they have two sons, Jordan and Trenton. He graduated from William Jewell College and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His first church plant, the Castleview Baptist church in Blue Springs, took place in 1983.Ĭlifton grew up in Independence, where his father, Harry Clifton, was pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church. Clifton has planted more than a dozen churches in the last 20 years. He was on staff of the Home Mission Board (now NAMB) in the late 1980’s directing church planting projects. From 1990 to 2000 Clifton served as the state director of extension mission for the Kansas-Nebraska Convention. ![]() Prior to his work with the MBC, Clifton was a North American Mission Board (NAMB) national missionary to Canada during which time he lived in Montreal and planted churches in Quebec. “As a friend, as a fellow Missouri Baptist and as a co-worker in church planting, my heart’s desire is to cooperate with you and your team in my new role,” Clifton said. This partnership will permit both Associations to approach the city core, Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., with a unified strategy for ministry to the homeless and neglected in our region, the press release stated. In turn the KNCSB will contribute a portion of the salary and ministry support for this position. In a unique partnership with the Kansas-Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptist (KNCSB) Clifton will assist up to 20 hours per month the churches in the Kansas-Nebraska Convention on issues of core city ministry. John Mark Clifton’s new ministry will include church planting, ethnic church ministry, urban ministry, church revitalization, missological research, community ministry, assisting churches with staff/pastoral vacancies and assisting churches with field interpretations and the design of appropriate mission strategies, according to an association press release. in the Northbound Community Recovery Center, 6258 Route 209, Stroudsburg. Services: A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, July 31, 2022, at 1:00 P.M. KANSAS CITY – A Missouri Baptist Convention church planting specialist has resigned and accepted a call to become an associate director with the Blue River- Kansas City Baptist Association. According to the funeral home, the following services have been scheduled: Memorial service, on Jat 7:00 p.m., at Blue River Bible Church, 15608 Fairchild Dr., Kansas City, MO. MBC church planter resigns, joins Blue River-KC Association ![]()
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