Welcome to the GBA website. We’re glad you decided to check us out! GBA is a local Southern Baptist association. It is comprised of 47 churches and missions in Illinois, just east across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, MO. We are daily working in voluntary cooperation with the goal of reaching our specific area of Illinois for the Kingdom of God. GBA exists to assist churches in accomplishing the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) through leadership development, fellowship, networking, missions involvement, church renewal and revitalization, and church planting.
There are numerous benefits to having a strong local association that churches can depend upon. The association is the most valuable resourcing partner for our churches when it comes to church strengthening. We operate by a strategy designed to resource churches at the point of their need so every church may fulfill its mission before God. GBA seeks to be proactive in planting new works and to help strengthen churches in need of revitalization. We also help develop strong leaders and engage churches in cooperative mission ventures. We must work together to reach those who have yet-to-be reached!
We are striving to be relevant and innovative in our methodology so we have a long future together. And we are diligently praying for the Lord to work in us, so He can accomplish great things through us! His Word and our work must unite to reach the lost for Christ.
