The Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force met earlier this week and has announced that it came to a unanimous consensus on the content of its final report to SBC messengers to be presented in Orlando in June. Dr. Ronnie Floyd, chairman of the task force, said the report will be released at 9:30 [...]
Entries from April 30th, 2010
Kentucky Exec Shares His ‘Great Commission Hope’
April 30th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, state conventions
Tags:Bill Mackey·Cooperative Program·Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·International Mission Board·Kentucky Baptist Convention·North American Mission Board·Ronnie Floyd·Southern Baptist Convention·Western Recorder
Three Wishes for a GCR Report Revision
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention, state conventions
I had the privilege recently of hearing Dr. Ronnie Floyd, chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force, speak via Internet connection to the annual workshop of the Baptist Communicators Association in Chicago. I really appreciated him sharing his heart for reaching the lost and for helping Southern Baptists take a careful [...]
Tags:Cooperative Program·Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·International Mission Board·Kentucky Baptist Convention·North American Mission Board·Ronnie Floyd·Southern Baptist Convention
KBC Great Commission Task Force Meets Today
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities
Please be in prayer for Kentucky’s Great Commission Task Force as it meets today at the Kentucky Baptist Building in Louisville. At this month’s meeting, the committee will hear from the heads of a couple of the agencies and institutions of the Kentucky Baptist Convention as well as the team leaders of the Mission Board [...]
Tags:Great Commission Task Force·Kentucky Baptist Convention
Beyond Find it Here: ‘What should we do now?’
April 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions
It has been an exciting and busy few weeks in Kentucky as nearly 1,700 Kentucky Baptist churches have been involved in the Find it Here door-to-door evangelism campaign. We’re estimating that approximately 42,000 volunteers participated in distributing more than 1.4 million Gospel presentations to homes all across our state in the weeks leading up to [...]
Tags:Christ·Christian·Don Mathis·evangelism·Find it Here·Gospel·Great Commission·Jesus·Southern Baptist Convention
Thanks for a Job Well Done on American Samoa
April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Disaster Relief, Kentucky Baptist Convention
Kentuckians Larry and Elaine Koch are now on their way back home after serving for the past three months as coordinators for Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams working in American Samoa to help the people there recover from a devastating earthquake-generated tsunami that swept the island last September. Larry is retired as disaster relief associate [...]
Tags:American Samoa·Kentucky Baptist Convention·Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief·North American Mission Board·tsunami
IMB Missionary: CP is ‘Reason I’m on the Field’
April 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Baptist Campus Ministry, Cooperative Program, International missions
For nearly 85 years now, the Cooperative Program has helped Southern Baptists send missionaries all over the world to share the Gospel in fulfillment of the Great Commission. Such international missions support is certainly not the only purpose of the Cooperative Program (which was established to also support a wide variety of Baptist causes on [...]
Tags:Baptist Campus Ministry·Christ·Christian·Cooperative Program·evangelism·Gospel·Great Commission·International Mission Board·KBC·Kentucky Baptist Convention·Lottie Moon Christmas Offering·missionary·North American Mission Board·SBC
Let’s Take the Snarkiness Out of GCR Discussion
April 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence
I’m not exactly sure why this is happening but there are definitely places in the online conversation about the Great Commission Resurgence where I am seeing an element of competitiveness that at times is far too negative. I also think that it’s unhelpful and unnecessary during this important time of decision for Southern Baptists. Webster [...]
Tags:Cooperative Program·GCR·Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·snarky·Southern Baptist Convention·Twitter
