Dr. Bill Mackey

Executive directors from state Baptist conventions will be getting an opportunity to share with the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force at the group’s next meeting, Oct. 27, in Dallas. Task Force Chairman Ronnie Floyd extended the invitation to the meeting through Dr. Bill Mackey, the executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, who is leading the state executive directors’ fellowship this year.

Some 22 of the leaders are anticipating being able to attend the meeting which will feature a presentation from Dr. Mackey and at least one other state convention executive followed by a dialogue session. I encourage everyone to be praying for this meeting and for the important work of the task force. Dr. Mackey has shared with me that he is appreciative of the invitation and is looking forward to the state leaders contributing their thoughts about how best to move forward in helping all Southern Baptists to be most effective in fulfilling the Great Commission. (You can read some of Dr. Mackey’s thoughts about the work of the task force in this earlier post.)

Here’s a story from Baptist Press about the plans for the meeting and the comments of Dr. Floyd who asks us all to be in prayer for the meeting and work of the task force:

ROGERS, Ark. (BP)–The chairman of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force Wednesday issued an “urgent” call for prayer in light of a meeting task force members are scheduled to have with state convention leaders later this month.

Ronnie Floyd, pastor of the Church at Pinnacle Hills in Rogers, Arkansas, and task force chairman, said the task force will meet Oct. 27 in Dallas with 22 state convention executives. All executive directors were invited. Bill Mackey, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, will lead the executive director’s presentation to the task force, Floyd said.

“This pivotal meeting may be unprecedented in at least recent history and needs our highest support in prayer and hopefully even a day of fasting,” Floyd said in an e-mail to Pray4GCR.com prayer partners. “It is my prayer that we can all go together towards a bold, visionary Great Commission future. The need is urgent and calls us to act together now.”

Floyd added, regarding the task force’s assignment, “There are days I am overwhelmed with this task and feel it upon my life heavily. Our task force is agonizing not only over our desperate need, but also about what we must do to move together towards seeing every person in America and the world afforded the privilege of hearing the Gospel and coming to Jesus Christ.”

Click here to read the full Baptist Press article.