Dr. Bill Mackey, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, is asking for special prayer for the Oct. 27 meeting of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force in Dallas. Mackey and some 21 other state convention executives will be meeting with the task force from 8-10 a.m.

David Hankins

Dr. Mackey is serving as the president of the fellowship of state convention executives this year and helped to organize what is expected to be a presentation followed by a dialogue time at the request of Task Force Chairman Ronnie Floyd. He said Dr. David Hankins, executive director of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, will make the primary presentation on behalf of the state executives. Hankins is a former pastor, former chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee and served as the vice president for Cooperative Program for the SBC Executive Committee prior to becoming executive director in Louisiana.

“Please pray for David and each participant that God will be glorified in all that is said and done,” Mackey said in a message to KBC staff sent over the weekend. “And please continue to pray for the work of the GCRTF. They have an awesome responsibility.”

Mackey is also asking Baptists to pray for approaching annual meeting of Kentucky Baptists at Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown on Nov. 10 where, if approved by the Mission Board on Nov. 9, messengers will consider asking Convention President John Mark Toby to appoint a Great Commission Task Force for Kentucky.

He also asked for prayer for the upcoming “Find it Here” evangelistic campaign that Kentucky Baptists are participating in as part of the God’s Plan for Sharing (GPS) initiative of the North American Mission Board.