2010 January

Entries from January 27th, 2010

GCR Task Force Finalizing Recommendations

January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

Please be in prayer for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force as it completes a three-day meeting in San Antonio on Thursday. The task force is finishing up work on a report it plans to make to the SBC’s Executive Committee Feb. 22-23 in Nashville. Chairman Ronnie Floyd has referred to this [...]

$20 Buys 100 Pounds of Rice in Haiti

January 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Haiti, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention

The Southern Baptist disaster relief assessment team is back in Miami and meeting with the assessment team from the Florida Baptist Convention to formulate the long term Southern Baptist response to the Haiti earthquake disaster. I think we can anticipate recommendations that will keep Southern Baptists busy for the long haul but that may also [...]

Haiti Prayer Video Available for Download

January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention

A short video to encourage prayer and giving in the wake of the Haiti earthquake disaster is available for free download. The video was produced by the Florida Baptist Convention but they have given permission for us to tag it with information about how to give to support Haiti relief through Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief. [...]

Baptists Do Know How CP Gifts Are Allocated

January 21st, 2010 · 4 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Southern Baptist Convention, state conventions

This post continues the GCR Myth Buster series I introduced earlier. Find links to the other posts released so far at the bottom of this one. One of the statements I sometimes read within the Great Commission Resurgence discussion is that Southern Baptists do not understand how their Cooperative Program funds are being used. This [...]

Disaster Assessment Team at Work in Haiti

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Haiti, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention

Southern Baptists’ disaster assessment team is in Haiti after a grueling trip over the mountain range that separates the island nation from the Dominican Republic to its east. The five-member team, which includes Disaster Relief Associate Coy Webb from the Kentucky Baptist Convention, is now at work setting up the logistical structures that will be [...]

Remember These Specific Prayer Requests for Haiti

January 15th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Haiti, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, state conventions

I am sure everyone is already in prayer for the people in Haiti and the chaotic situation there today but let me give you a few specific items to add to your prayer list in the wake of this terrible tragedy. First, pray for the Southern Baptist assessment teams that are going into Haiti this [...]

‘Find it Here’ Media Buy for Kentucky Announced

January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, state conventions

The Kentucky Baptist Convention has just announced its plans for a major media buy in conjunction with the “Find it Here” door-to-door evangelism initiative set for this Spring. The media campaign will allow us here in Kentucky to reach approximately 85 percent of our state’s adult population with a gospel message an average of three-and-a-half [...]

State, National Missions Also Important

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions, state conventions

This post continues the GCR Myth Buster series I introduced earlier. Find links to the other posts released so far at the bottom of this one. I’ve never heard anyone say specifically that missions work in the United States is less important than international missions work but I’ve certainly come across some who, in their [...]

Taking the Great Commission to American Samoa

January 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Often when we think about sharing the gospel across the United States, we think about our 48 contiguous states plus Alaska and Hawaii. But there are other parts of “America” around the world as well. Kentucky Baptists are ministering in one of those places right now — American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United [...]

State Conventions Stretched, Not Bloated

January 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, state conventions

This post begins the GCR Myth Buster series I introduced earlier. Several posts on this topic will follow in the days ahead although I’ll also be posting other items as needed. As a communicator, I have to say right up front that part of me hates to even talk about the “bloated bureaucracies” myth because [...]

Kentucky GC Task Force Chairman Provides Update

January 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Dr. Hershael York, chairman of the Great Commission Task Force for the Kentucky Baptist Convention, has provided this update for Kentucky Baptists from the committee’s first organizational meeting held on Tuesday: On Tuesday, Jan. 5, the Great Commission Task Force of the Kentucky Baptist Convention met for the first time. Our goal is to examine [...]

Kentucky Task Force Holds First Meeting

January 5th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Kentucky’s Great Commission Task Force held its first organizational meeting at the Kentucky Baptist Building on Tuesday. Please be in prayer for this special committee as it proceeds with its work during the coming year. The committee was appointed at the KBC’s annual meeting in November after messengers approved a recommendation to form a committee [...]

Great Commission Resurgence Myth Busting

January 4th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force

Dr. Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force recently wrote a series of blog posts about what he described as myths regarding the GCR Task Force. He dealt with such topics as: “The GCR is about more money for the seminaries,” [...]

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