Estrella Baptist Association

IMB Sending Celebration. Be in prayer for our missionaries as they go to the nations with the gospel! Over 60 missionaries being sent! God is good.

The SBC 2026 is now in session. Be in prayer for wisdom, discernment, and that the Lords will be done in our convention this year.

EBA Executive Board Meeting - https://mailchi.mp/9a6d782f1c3b/take-a-look-at-what-is-happening-around-estrella-baptist-association-18135347

EBA 2026 Survey PDF included - https://mailchi.mp/1f247a68cf53/take-a-look-at-what-is-happening-around-estrella-baptist-association-18135153

International Mission Trip - Philippines - https://mailchi.mp/1569fc178cbe/take-a-look-at-what-is-happening-around-estrella-baptist-association-18135154

The year 2026 marks Gateway Seminary’s 30th year in Arizona! The Arizona Campus is designed to serve Arizona students by allowing them to gain theological training while serving in ministry simultaneously. Gateway Seminary is one of six Southern Baptist seminaries, and it operates a system of five campuses situated near urban cities in the western region of the United States. Dr. Adam Groza, who grew up in Arizona and has a degree from Northern Arizona University, serves as President of Gateway. Dr. Dallas Bivins is the Director of the Arizona Campus. Dr. David Johnson, former Executive Director of the Arizona Mission Network of Southern Baptists, now serves as Gateway’s director of the doctor of ministry program and professor of leadership formation. Gateway receives financial support from the Arizona Mission Network.

How to Pray:

For Dr. Dallas Bivins, the Gateway Seminary Arizona Campus, and its students and faculty.

For Dr. David Johnson in his new assignment with the
seminary.

That God would continue to call men and women to be on mission and that they will receive valuable training to fulfill this call through Gateway Seminary as well as the other Southern Baptist seminaries.

As Johanna Moore prepares to become director of communications and editor of Connect magazine for the Arizona Mission Network of Southern Baptists on June 1, she looks back and sees God’s guiding hand.

“Stepping into this position really feels like stepping into something God set up a long time ago that I never could have anticipated,” she said.

From making magazines and newspapers with friends as a child to working at a real city newspaper after college to serving as communications coordinator at an Arizona Southern Baptist church, Moore sees how God used her interests and abilities to lead her to this position with Arizona Southern Baptists.

“From early in my career, I knew God had called me to share stories of how He is at work in people’s lives, and so this feels like the natural next chapter to that,” she said.

Moore graduated from the W.A. Franke Honors College at the University of Arizona, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history.

While a student, she began writing as a freelancer for Arizona Southern Baptists’ Portraits magazine, precursor of Connect. Her Christian Challenge director at the U of A, Julie Newsted, connected her to Portraits editor Elizabeth Young, who will retire as editor and AZMN director of communications June 30.

“For 13 years, writing under her maiden name, Johanna Willett, Johanna has had a consistent presence in Portraits and now Connect,” Young said. “She has amazed me, turning in assignments ahead of the deadline — a rarity for writers — and handling complicated stories with ease.

https://azmn.org/news/called-to-tell-the-story-moore-joins-azmn-staff/