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Entries from July 26th, 2009

‘Find it Here’ to help fulfill Great Commission

July 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

One of the ways the Kentucky Baptist Convention works with churches in fulfilling the Great Commission here in our state is by taking a coordinating role in major evangelism initiatives.  Right now, for instance, the KBC is preparing – in partnership with Kentucky associations and the North American Mission Board – for a major evangelistic effort in [...]

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Kentucky CP Giving…The Rest of the Story

July 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, North American missions, Series - Kentucky CP Giving, Southern Baptist Convention

As we think about how Southern Baptists financially support various missions and ministry endeavors on a state, national and international basis, our thoughts immediately go to the Cooperative Program. And rightly so. The Cooperative Program is the single biggest funding source in Baptist life, with many Baptist entities depending on it for at least a portion of [...]

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Kentucky CP Giving — More of the Story

July 17th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Series - Kentucky CP Giving, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist seminaries

In the last post about Kentucky’s Cooperative Program allocations, I talked about the process the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board and annual meeting messengers use in dividing the Cooperative Program pie three ways to fund missions endeavors within the state and around the world. In this post, I’ll give you the details of the budget goals [...]

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And now a word from our sponsor…

July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions

I’ll pick up with the detail about Kentucky’s Cooperative Program allocations in the next post but since I know all of the readers of this blog aren’t necessarily from Kentucky, I thought I would drop in here a short video about the convention and the various agencies and institutions that receive CP funds. The video [...]

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Kentucky CP Giving — Part of the Story

July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Series - Kentucky CP Giving

One of the big questions being asked in relation to the Great Commission Resurgence is “How much money is staying within any given state convention versus how much is being sent on to Southern Baptist Convention causes?” We live in a very lost world and Southern Baptists are legitimately wanting to make sure their missions dollars [...]

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Just a little Kentucky Baptist history

July 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Baptist History, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention

One of the things I want to move to pretty quickly with this blog is the Cooperative Program funding formula for Kentucky since the amount of money used for various kinds of missions and ministries throughout the Southern Baptist Convention will be one of the major discussion points of the Great Commission Task Force. Before [...]

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Everyone’s Talking GCR These Days

July 9th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention

I think the single most asked question I’m getting these days is: “What is the Baptist Building’s take on the Great Commission Resurgence or Great Commission Task Force?” Or, the variation might be: “What does Dr. Mackey think about the GCR?” referencing Dr. Bill Mackey, the executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. It’s a question I [...]

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What is Great Commission Kentucky?

July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions

If you’re reading this post, you’re in on the ground floor of a brand new place to share and discuss the ways God is at work in the state of Kentucky. As you can probably tell by the name, it’s been born out of the latest big discussion in  Southern Baptist Convention life — the [...]

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