12 | October 2025
Send Relief Serve Tour Coming to Toledo in 2026
By Dr. John Heading, Ohio Disaster Relief director
communities, local churches and one project for airmen and families at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Serve Tour is returning to Ohio on September 25-26, 2026, to bring compassionate care to hurting commu- nities in Toledo. Volunteers, like you, will serve local churches, bivocational pastors, low-income schools, and other organizations needing assistance. Projects may include light construction, painting, landscaping and hosting sports camps or block parties. By partnering with the State Convention of Baptists in Ohio (SCBO) and Northwest Baptist Association, Send Relief is making it easy for you and your team to have a lasting impact on the lives of Toledo’s most vulnerable. If you or your church are considering participating in the Toledo Serve Tour, please register your team now to get started with free access to resources like prayer guides, online training and more! Registration doesn’t obligate you to serve, but it does give us insight into how many volunteers are thinking about coming. The number of volunteers will dictate how many projects we can accept. Please visit https://www.sendrelief.org/serve-tour/tole- do-serve-tour-stop/ for more information and to register your team today! you don’t have instrumentation to accompany your lead vocal. And, you can create setlists and control them live with shortcut keys to make it as easy as possible. For churches with 99 or fewer people, it’s only $150/ year. This could be a great way to level up your worship when you don’t have much in the way of resources. To get access, just go to https://songselect.ccli.com/lyr- ic-videos, log in to your account, and then add this to your annual subscription.
One of the most amazing examples of Southern Baptists working together for the kingdom is found at Send Relief Serve Tours. A Send Relief Serve Tour is a compassion ministry proj- ect in which local churches identify needs in their com- munities, and volunteers come together during a two- day project to meet the needs while sharing the gospel. Send Relief provides guidance and the funds for the projects through the Cooperative Program. The first Serve Tour in Ohio was in Dayton in 2022. The Dayton Serve Tour brought together 650 volunteers to tackle 38 targeted projects. The projects included four in the Dayton Public Schools, as well as in low-income
Don’t Have A Worship Leader? Try CCLI’s New Lyric Videos This one is hot off the presses! Apparently, CCLI just released a new add-on subscription that provides lyric videos in singable keys for congregational use.
This means that if you don’t have a worship leader, you can have ready-made content with songs that sound great and appear to be pretty easy to use. Even better, when I played around with it, I could cus- tomize quite a lot, including the background, back- ground color, and text font. Even better, you can remove the vocal from the track if you want to sing it live, but
Have You Signed Up For SBC Worship? SBC Worship was launched in June at the national Annu- al Meeting in Dallas. It’s a collaboration with The Worship Initiative and Southern Baptist seminaries, state conven- tion consultants, and local worship pastors. Our own Joe Kibbey, Central Region worship catalyst, Living Hope Church, Columbus, is serving on the advisory committee alongside key leaders like Dr. Joe Crider, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Kenny Lamm, North Carolina Baptists.
There’s free content already available, including daily de- votionals, training videos to encourage congregational singing, free song resources, and live events to help you lead your church to worship more deeply and truly than ever before. To get access to these free resources, check out sbcwor- ship.com.
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