2009 August

Entries from August 31st, 2009

Preparing for a Great Commission Resurgence

August 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions

I’m pleased to share a guest post from Joy Bolton, executive director of the Kentucky Woman’s Missionary Union. Joy provides leadership to state WMU work and consulting in all areas of WMU work. She coordinates the state missions promotion, Kentucky WMU Annual Meeting and works closely with the Kentucky WMU Executive Board. Joy shares here [...]

Use Video to Share All GCR Task Force Meetings

August 30th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

You’ll find below the video of the Great Commission Task Force’s Q&A luncheon in Rogers, Ark. last week. The task force should be commended for making this available so that the many Southern Baptists who couldn’t be there in person can see and hear what those who attended experienced. The task force may want to [...]

Key ‘Find it Here’ Deadline Approaching

August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions

An important deadline for the upcoming “Find it Here” door-to-door evangelism campaign being sponsored by the Kentucky Baptist Convention, North American Mission Board and Kentucky associations is coming up soon. “Find it Here” is a wonderful opportunity for Baptists to put the talk about fulfilling the Great Commission into action but in order to do so, [...]

Great Commission Task Force Members Profiled

August 26th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

We need to be praying for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force as it goes back to work today and tomorrow in Rogers, Ark. This meeting will be the committee’s first truly working session as the initial meetings in Atlanta earlier this month were largely organizational. This meeting will have a public component today during [...]

Idea of Merging Mission Boards Nothing New

August 24th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist History, Great Commission Task Force, International missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

One of the ideas floated as part of the Great Commission Resurgence discussion is that of merging the North American Mission Board and International Mission Board into a single missions organization. I don’t know if the idea will gain any traction but it’s interesting to note that according to a recent article in the Biblical [...]

GC Task Force Proposed for Kentucky

August 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, Southern Baptist Convention

The Kentucky Baptist Convention may get its own Great Commission Task Force if the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board and messengers to this November’s annual meeting approve a proposal from the Mission Board’s Administrative Committee. Here’s the news as released by the Kentucky Baptist Convention: LOUISVILLE – The Administrative Committee of the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board [...]

SBC First VP Affirms Kentucky Mission Board Staff

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention

The Kentucky Baptist Convention Mission Board staff received a welcome dose of encouragement this week when Dr. John Mark Toby, the KBC president and Southern Baptist Convention first vice president led the staff worship service at the Kentucky Baptist Building in Louisville. Toby preached a sermon entitled “How Much You Matter to God” based on [...]

Partnership Missions and the Great Commission

August 17th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

Today I’m excited to share a guest post from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Partnership Missions director, Scott Pittman. Scott’s current ministry is a great example of the partnership between the local church, state convention and national Southern Baptist entities in seeking to fulfill the Great Commission. In fact, the very fact that he is even [...]

Task Force Chair Both Encouraged and Burdened

August 13th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force

Baptist Press is reporting that Great Commission Task Force Chairman Ronnie Floyd said he is both encouraged and burdened following the initial meeting of the committee in Atlanta on Tuesday and Wednesday. That’s a good sign as the group begins its work because it implies that everyone understands that the issues are complex and will be [...]

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New KBC Missions Budget Brochures Available

August 12th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist seminaries

In the previous posts titled, “Kentucky CP Giving — Part of the Story,” “Kentucky CP Giving — More of the Story,” and “Kentucky CP Giving…the Rest of the Story,” I shared how Cooperative Program dollars are divided in Kentucky and also explored what the total church giving picture looks like in terms of the division between [...]