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Overcoming the Big Disconnect

July 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Southern Baptist Convention

Many Southern Baptists have spent the better part of two years discussing the Great Commission Resurgence through blogs, podcasts, newspaper articles, and live listening sessions. A number were quite passionate in their viewpoints. More than 11,000 of our 16 million members even made their way down to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Orlando in [...]

Your Missions Team Was Outstanding

July 5th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist Campus Ministry, Kentucky Baptist Convention

The Kentucky Baptist Convention is receiving great reports this summer in response to the work of some of our Baptist Campus Ministry students who are actively working to learn about and carry out the Great Commission through the 1:8 Leadership Experience. Click here to read details about what these young people are doing in this [...]

KBC Executive Shares Thoughts About SBC Orlando

June 24th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

Kentucky Baptist Convention Executive Director Bill Mackey recently shared his thoughts on last week’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention on his blog, Partners in the Mission, and in the Western Recorder newspaper. Here’s a reprint of that piece: Report from Orlando I want to share some words of encouragement from Orlando, especially for [...]

Leaders Discuss Great Commission Priorities

June 20th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention, state conventions

Just ahead of the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Orlando last week, Bill Mackey, the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s executive director, participated in a panel discussion on Great Commission priorities with Jerry Rankin, the outgoing president of the International Mission Board, and Richard Harris, the interim president of the North American Mission Board. Click on the [...]

Pray for the Southern Baptist Convention This Week

June 14th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

Please be in prayer for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention set for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Crossover Orlando activities were held this past weekend with the Pastors’ Conference slated for today (Monday). Be in special prayer for the presentation of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force report at 2:45 p.m. [...]

Listening Sessions Audio Now Available

June 10th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

The Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force held two listening sessions this week to hear from Kentucky Baptists regarding its task to study ways the Convention can “work more faithfully and effectively together in serving Christ through the Great Commission.” The session on Monday, June 7, was held at Severns Valley Baptist Church in [...]

Don’t Forget the Kentucky Listening Sessions!

June 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

With the Southern Baptist Convention and the big vote on the SBC’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force report just over a week away, it might be easy to forget that Kentucky will be having listening sessions for its own Great Commission Task Force on Mondayand Tuesday night of this week. Don’t do that, though, as [...]

The GCR Report and Mickey Mouse

June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

Mike James serves as both the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s church development strategist for the south central region of Kentucky as well as the KBC’s point person on discipleship for the entire state. He recently wrote a great post on his 28Nineteen blog about what our attitude should be as we go to Orlando for the [...]

The Challenges of Great Commission Resurgence

June 1st, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention, state conventions

Dr. Bill Mackey, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, released a column today in the Western Recorder newspaper as well as on his own blog, Partners in the Mission, regarding the upcoming report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force to be received by messengers to Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, June 15-16. Here’s [...]

Mackey Comments on Great Commission Studies

May 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention

Dr. Bill Mackey, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, has recently written on the work of both the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force as well as the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s own Great Commission Task Force. Here’s a re-post of his comments made in his column in the Western Recorder newspaper as [...]

Kentucky GC Task Force Plans Listening Sessions

May 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Kentucky Baptists will get a chance to share their ideas about how our Convention can most effectively fulfill the Great Commission through two upcoming listening sessions being planned by the KBC’s Great Commission Task Force. Here’s the KBC release about plans for the listening sessions: LOUISVILLE – Kentucky Baptists will have two opportunities to provide [...]

The ‘Risk’ of the Great Commission Resurgence

May 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence, International missions

Although I don’t play very often, I enjoy the board game, Risk. The object is for players to win the world. They start at rough parity in terms of the geography over which they have influence and in the course of the game either grow stronger or decline until they are eliminated. Risk is primarily [...]

Kentucky Task Force Meeting in Princeton Today

May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Please be in prayer for Kentucky’s Great Commission Task Force as it meets today in Princeton, Ky. The committee was appointed at the KBC’s annual meeting in November after messengers approved a recommendation to form a committee to study “how Kentucky Baptists can work more faithfully and effectively together in serving Christ through the Great [...]

Kentucky Reaffirms CP in Wake of GCR Report

May 4th, 2010 · 12 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention

In the wake of Monday’s release of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force report, the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board on Tuesday approved a strong resolution supporting the Cooperative Program as the “essential avenue of support for missions and ministries” for Kentucky Baptists. Passage of the resolution came near the end of the Mission [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pancakes Help Students Share Their Faith

March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist Campus Ministry

Kentucky students involved in Baptist Campus Ministry have been using their spring breaks in a variety of ways to share the Gospel. Some participated in the “Find it Here” Gospel distribution and various ministry projects here in Kentucky. Others used their time off to share with other college students through Beach Reach. In Beach Reach, [...]

Line Between Local and Global Missions Fading Fast

March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions

International Mission Board President Jerry Rankin wrote recently about how Christ’s command to reach the world in Acts 1:8 is not intended to be understood as meaning that we are only to reach out to the world after we have reached our local communities, state and nation. We are to be reaching out in all [...]

Haiti’s Shepherds Need Our Prayers

March 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Disaster Relief, Haiti

I mentioned in the last post that I would be sharing video from the current Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief mission to Haiti. Take a look at this powerful testimony from one of our Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief chaplains who has been in Haiti this week as he shares about ministering to Haitian pastors.

Haiti’s Needs Continue to be Desperate

March 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Disaster Relief, Haiti

It’s looking like Kentucky Baptists will send more than 12,000 Buckets of Hope to Haiti as part of the SBC-wide effort to provide practical aid to the people devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake. The goal here in Kentucky was to collect 10,000 buckets so our people have been especially generous. The video on this [...]

‘Find it Here’ Off to Strong Start in Kentucky

March 13th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions

It’s extremely exciting to see the strong start that Kentucky Baptists have gotten off to with the Find it Here door-t0-door evangelism initiative. Many churches have already begun placing the bags and brochures on door knobs in their assigned areas and are being received well by homeowners across the state. Baptist Campus Ministry students from [...]

Ky. Great Commssion Task Force Meets Thursday

March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Please be in prayer for Kentucky’s Great Commission Task Force as it meets March 11 at the Kentucky Baptist Building in Louisville. The committee’s February meeting was snowed out so I am sure they will be looking to make up some lost ground if possible. At this month’s meeting, the committee will hear from the [...]

The World is Coming to Kentucky’s Colleges

February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist Campus Ministry, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention

As I have shared here before, one of the powerful ways that Kentucky Baptists are reaching the world for Christ is through the international missions work of Baptist Campus Ministry. Each year, thousands of students from countries around the world come to U.S. colleges to receive the benefits of American higher education. Many will be [...]

Floyd Presents GCR Update to Executive Committee

February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

Dr. Ronnie Floyd, chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence task force presented an interim report from the group to the SBC’s Executive Committee in Nashville earlier tonight. The report itself was not available live but Floyd had previously recorded a version of the report for the web that has just been released. [...]

GCR Task Force to Provide Report Preview

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force

Please be in prayer for Ronnie Floyd, chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force as he presents an update of the committee’s work to the SBC’s Executive Committee in Nashville on Monday night, Feb. 21. As soon as he finishes that live report, a previously taped video version will be released [...]

Needs Great in American Samoa

February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Disaster Relief

With all of the focus on Haiti since the tragic earthquake that struck there on Jan. 12, it’s easy to forget that Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is also working right now in American Samoa to help the people there recover from a devastating earthquake-generated tsunami that swept the island last September. The needs in American [...]

Baptist Campus Ministry Finding Unity in Diversity

February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist Campus Ministry

If Southern Baptists are to be a part of seeing the Great Commission fulfilled, one of the barriers we must ultimately overcome is that of racial prejudice. Much progress has been made but Sunday morning continues to be one of the most racially segregated times of the week in America. In this guest post, Curtis [...]

KBC’s Great Commission Task Force Meets Today

February 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Please be in prayer for Kentucky’s Great Commission Task Force as it holds its second meeting today at the Kentucky Baptist Building in Louisville. The committee was appointed at the KBC’s annual meeting in November after messengers approved a recommendation to form a committee to study “how Kentucky Baptists can work more faithfully and effectively [...]

Dateline Haiti: Survivors Will Not Be Forgotten

February 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

A fitting wrap-up of the Dateline Haiti series is this video dispatch just released from the International Mission Board from an interview of Butch Vernon, the chaplain of our 10-member Kentucky Baptist Convention Disaster Relief medical team that arrived home earlier this week. If you’ve been following the series, you know that Butch was the [...]

Dateline Haiti: God Revealed on Hectic Final Day

February 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the sixth of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: A Day of Miracles

February 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the fifth of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: Team Confronting Difficult Situations

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention

This is the third of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: “People Here Are Scared”

February 2nd, 2010 · 5 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the second of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city today. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and the [...]

Dateline Haiti: A Bookcase Becomes a Pharmacy

February 1st, 2010 · 11 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the first of what we hope will be several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince today (Monday) and will be ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred [...]

Kentucky Medical Disaster Relief Team Now in Haiti

February 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti, state conventions

Please be in prayer for a 10-member Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief medical team that should be in Haiti by now if all is going as planned. The team left Louisville early Sunday morning and arrived in the Dominican Republic later that day. Today (Monday, Feb. 1), they were making an arduous nine-hour or more bus ride [...]

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 [...]