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Camp Paron is a perfect place to get away from it all and experience adventure in a serene setting with camps, conferences, retreats, family reunions, weddings, and corporate events.

In every season, Camp Paron captures the natural calm and beauty of central Arkansas. Just 25 miles west of Little Rock, the camp sits adjacent to the Ouachita National Forest among 263 acres of forested hills and open grassy fields. For more than 50 years they have provided the backdrop for camps, conferences, and retreats, and would love to host your groups. As a ministry of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, they are here to serve you.

Arkansas Baptist State Convention Disaster Relief extends the love of Christ to disaster survivors by preparing hot meals, removing damaged trees and debris, tarping roofs, shoveling mud, providing emergency communications, and coordinating the response through incident command leadership. Following a common ministry pattern of Jesus Christ, volunteers seek to share God’s grace, hope, and Truth while meeting physical needs.

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Become a Disaster Relief volunteer & join the ranks of those who strive to bring help, healing & hope to those in crisis. In order to become a Disaster Relief volunteer, you must apply & attend one of their annual training events.

Camp Siloam is a non-profit Southern Baptist camp and retreat center in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. For 98 years God’s name has been honored there and people have been encountering the Father on these holy grounds. In the summertime, the camp hosts multiple weeks of summer camp during which gifted evangelists share the Gospel of Jesus with thousands of campers. During the fall, winter, and spring, the camp staff hosts youth retreats and rents the camp to groups for retreats.

Camp Siloam was started in 1923 by the Arkansas Baptist State Convention under the name Arkansas Baptist Assembly. The camp was run solely by the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) until 2006 when it was given its own non-profit status. Camp Siloam remains an entity of the ABSC whose primary purpose is to assist the churches of the Convention in fulfilling their mission through the operation of a year-round camp and retreat ministry to reach all the people with the gospel of Jesus Christ and their conversion to faith in Him, while maintaining a special emphasis on reaching students and children. In 2011, the camp changed its name to Camp Siloam for marketing purposes because Arkansas Baptist Assembly was known throughout the state simply as “Siloam”.

Camp Siloam sits on 178 acres on the western edge of the Ozark Mountains. The main part of the camp has been developed along a valley that has been carved out by Little Beaver Creek.

Since 1923, thousands of people have heard the Gospel of Jesus and have been saved. Many have been called to global missions or full-time ministry at Camp Siloam. Campers refer to the camp simply as, “Siloam” which is a Hebrew word meaning sent. The idea of sending permeates much of what we do at Siloam. We believe God is sending people to be a part of camp.

Features: Pool with 300 swimmer capacity (10ft greatest depth), 9-hole disc-golf course, 4 half basketball courts, 5 volleyball courts (3 sand, 2 concrete), and 2 softball fields

Activities: 9 Square in the Air, Archery, Arts and Craft, Basketball, Bazooka Ball, BB Guns, Beach Volleyball, Bouldering, Carpetball, Cornhole, Frisbee Golf, Gaga Ball, Hatchet Throwing, Horseshoes, Kajabi Kan Kan, KanJam, Kayaking, Little Beaver Creek, Paintball, Pickle Ball, Ping Pong/Jungle Pong, Screaminator, Snookball, Soccer, Spikeball, Swimming, Water Slide, and Ultimate Frisbee

The Arkansas Baptist Foundation (ABF) seeks to serve churches and ministries, advise in areas where their staff are gifted and equipped, and encourage churches and individuals towards a biblical worldview to best steward their resources with a Kingdom mindset. They serve as a resource and reference for tax, finance, estate planning, charitable giving, legal and governance issues.

The Arkansas Baptist Foundation is an incorporated agency of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) whose sole purpose is serving the churches, agencies, institutions, and ministries of the ABSC as well as the greater body of Southern Baptist believers in Jesus Christ. This purpose is preeminent and defining and serves as a guide and framework through which the Foundation’s mission, vision, activities, efforts, and policies are construed, interpreted, and carried out.

One of the resources the ABF offers is free estate planning for any Arkansas Baptist in denominational service or any Arkansas Baptist wishing to make a legacy gift to Kingdom causes and free drafts of estate planning documents for lay members who would like to leave at least 10% of their estate to their church or favorite ministry.

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OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY

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Another resource available through the ABF is a partnership with WatersEdge to provide affordable accounting services to Arkansas Baptist churches. The goal is to help you focus more of your ministry’s time, energy, and resources on changing lives with the Gospel—and less on crunching numbers.

Connected Foster Care

We are changing the way families foster by equipping missional families with a better option to foster. As a private foster care provider, we partner with families at every step for every challenge, providing the professional services needed to welcome vulnerable children. Our professional services are Christ-centered, trauma-informed, and family-focused.

Connected Adoptions

For Connected foster families who want to take the next step in welcoming vulnerable children, we provide the pathway for private, infant adoption. Our missional approach to adoption prioritizes the needs of the expectant mother and her baby and equips waiting families to provide a healthy future for a child.

Living Well Counseling

Living Well provides professional counseling you can trust in locations across Arkansas. We serve individuals of all ages, couples, and families with Christ-centered mental health services that are affordable and accessible. With multiple counselors who hold various specializations, we are able to meet a wide range of mental health needs.

Desired Haven Family Care

Desired Haven helps guide at-risk families to healthy futures by partnering them with trained advocates who build a healthy support system around families and teaches them 7 areas of stability. We serve families through two pathways: Family Care Homes and DH Communities.

Arkansas Baptist Ranch (Harrison)

We are meeting the vital need for brothers and sisters to stay together while in foster care. Located in the Ozark mountains offering 400 acres and stunning views and a true ranch life experience, the Arkansas Baptist Ranch provides a peaceful setting that allows foster families to welcome large sibling groups. Campus foster care provides real homes and a real family environment to siblings in foster care.

Arkansas Baptist Homes for Children (Monticello)

We are meeting the vital need for brothers and sisters to stay together while in foster care. Located on 80 acres offering fishing ponds, farm animals, and horseback riding, our flagship ministry, Arkansas Baptist Homes for Children in Monticello, provides a unique setting that allows foster families to welcome large sibling groups. Campus foster care provides real homes and a real family environment to siblings in foster care.

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Located in the foothills of the beautiful Ouachita Mountains (just an hour south of Little Rock), Ouachita Baptist University has been a rigorous, Christ-centered learning community focused on providing outstanding academic training and career preparation in the liberal arts tradition since our founding by Arkansas Baptists more than 135 years ago.

We take a highly personalized approach to Christian higher education, fostering a love of God and a love of learning within a close-knit community. There are no gigantic, crowded lecture halls at Ouachita. Professors know their students’ names, invest personally in their success, encourage them to find their calling and prepare them for reasoned engagement with the world—a key factor in our high graduation and placement rates.

Our comprehensive catalog includes courses in more than 70 undergraduate degree programs and a growing number of graduate degree pathways.

We’ve developed a variety of academic resources to help students thrive and a competitive financial aid program that provides merit scholarships to all Ouachita freshmen and assistance to 99 percent of the total student body.

Nearly all of our undergrads live in campus housing, which is a big part of what makes Ouachita unique. Between our nine residence halls and six university apartment complexes, there’s housing available to every Ouachita student regardless of their classification —from move-in day freshman year until they pack up after graduation.

Whether students are interested in music, sports, ministry, languages, social life, science, travel, theatre, business, philosophy or all of the above, the offices of Student Life and Rec Life sponsor more than 60 clubs and organizations that offer opportunities for leadership, connection and a whole lot of fun. Campus Ministries has a calendar full of programs, trips and retreats where students can turn their faith into action. We’re also minutes away from some of the best hiking, biking, fishing, floating, camping and climbing in Arkansas. And Tiger Nation is full of pride for our 18 NCAA Division II athletic teams! We’ve been creating a transformational college experience for Ouachita students since 1886.

The Williams Works initiative offers students a real opportunity to forge a path to graduate owing little to no debt and instills the value of work in students, giving them a strong “leg up” upon graduation when they enter the job market. Williams is not only helping shape the future workforce, it is helping mold the leaders of tomorrow through a Christ-centered focus.

Williams Baptist University was founded in 1941 by a group of dedicated Arkansas Baptists led by pastor and visionary Dr. H. E. Williams. The vision of these founders was to create a school that equipped graduates to be transformative leaders, men and women who exemplified “salt and light” leaders for challenging times and situations.

Throughout the university’s history, the faculty and staff have sought to instill in students certain biblical characteristics that we call the Williams Way. We believe these traits reflect the way of Christ as revealed in the Bible and define the way we identify transformative leaders. The five traits of the Williams Way are: Christcentered purpose; unwavering tenacity; courageous faith; selfless sacrifice, and work as a mission.

WBU consistently ranks among the nation’s top colleges by U.S. News and our top-notch faculty earn national recognition for their outstanding work in their fields. Our students are recognized at the state and national levels for their research in the natural sciences and history departments, while our business department has garnered numerous awards at competitions. Our fine arts programs, which includes the Williams Singers, WBU Band, Worship Team, Americana Band, The Cast drama team, and the WBU Theatre program, are invited yearly to perform across the state and region and host many events on campus throughout the year for all to enjoy.

Take a moment to discover why you #BelongHere at Williams Baptist University. Our students get to know their professors on a personal level through events like Christmas in the Cove, where students are invited into the faculty’s homes and get to meet their families and see them on a much more personal level. Campus life is always buzzing with events like Follies, and students also become involved in social clubs or intramurals or campus ministries. You’ll find your place at WBU!