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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Great Commission Task Force'
KBC Executive Shares Thoughts About SBC Orlando
June 24th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention
Tags:Bill Mackey·Cooperative Program·Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Southern Baptist Convention
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 [...]
Tags:Bill Mackey·Cooperative Program·Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·International Mission Board·Jerry Rankin·Kentucky Baptist Convention·North American Mission Board·Richard Harris·Southern Baptist Convention
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. [...]
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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 [...]
Tags:Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Mike James·Southern Baptist Convention
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 [...]
Tags:Bill Mackey·Cooperative Program·Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Kentucky Baptist Convention·North American Mission Board·Southern Baptist Convention
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 [...]
Tags:Bill Mackey·Cooperative Program·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Hershael York·Kentucky Baptist Convention·Southern Baptist Convention
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 [...]
Tags:Cooperative Program·Don Mathis·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Kentucky Baptist Convention·Southern Baptist Convention
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 [...]
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
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. [...]
Tags:Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Ronnie Floyd
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tags:Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Ronnie Floyd·Southern Baptist Convention
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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SBC President Calls for Day of Prayer on Jan. 31
December 31st, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt is calling all Southern Baptists to a special day of prayer on Jan. 31 to help us all focus on seeking God’s will as major decisions impacting the denomination are made in 2010. The president specifically cited the meetings of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force, the God’s Plan [...]
Tags:Great Commission·Great Commission Task Force·International Mission Board·Johnny Hunt·Kentucky Baptist Convention·North American Mission Board·Southern Baptist Convention
GCR Task Force: Progress Has Been ‘Enormous’
December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention
We may be getting close to knowing what the actual proposals from the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force are going to be. Following the group’s latest meeting in Atlanta this week, Chairman Ronnie Floyd said the group had made “enormous” progress and planned to bring a substantial report to the SBC Executive [...]
Tags:Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Ronnie Floyd·Southern Baptist Convention
Thoughts on the KBC Annual Meeting
November 12th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, Southern Baptist Convention
The Kentucky Baptist Convention had an excellent annual meeting at Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown this week. Attendance was up slightly this year with 840 messengers and 270 other church members and guests joining together for worship, reports, business, fellowship and inspiration. We heard strong sermons from KBC President John Mark Toby, Southern Baptist [...]
Tags:Al Mohler·Cooperative Program·Find it Here·Great Commission Task Force·John Mark Toby·Kentucky Baptist Convention·Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Kentucky Great Commission Task Force Appointed
November 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention
Messengers at the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s annual meeting at Severns Valley Baptist Church today approved the formation of a Great Commission Task Force for the state convention. The approved recommendation calls for the formation of a committee that will study “how Kentucky Baptists can work more faithfully and effectively together in serving Christ through the [...]
Tags:Bill Mackey·Great Commission·Great Commission Task Force·John Mark Toby·Kentucky Baptist Convention
Great Commission in Forefront of KBC Meeting
November 8th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention
The Great Commission will certainly be in the forefront of Tuesday’s annual meeting of the Kentucky Baptist Convention which will convene at Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown. More than 1,000 messengers and guests are expected for the meeting with the theme “Find it Here: Sharing Christ Across Kentucky.” Here are some of the expected [...]
Tags:Al Mohler·associations·Cooperative Program·Find it Here·God's Plan for Sharing·GPS·Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·International Mission Board·Jay Strack·John Mark Toby·Kentucky Baptist Convention·North American Mission Board·Severns Valley Baptist Church·Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
State Execs Offer Perspectives on GCR
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention
Baptist Press has just released a report on yesterday’s meeting between the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force and executives from 22 state conventions. All parties have been describing the meeting as being one that was cordial, respectful and frank. It sounds like the meeting was helpful in sharing various perspectives which should prove valuable to [...]
Tags:Cooperative Program·God's Plan for Sharing·Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Ronnie Floyd·Southern Baptist Convention
Mackey Requests Prayer for GCR Meeting
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention
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. Dr. Mackey is serving as the president of [...]
Tags:David Hankins·Find it Here·God's Plan for Sharing (GPS)·Great Commission Task Force·John Mark Toby·Kentucky Baptist Convention·Louisiana Baptist Convention·North American Mission Board·Ronnie Floyd
State Leaders to Meet with GCR Task Force
October 15th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention
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 [...]
Tags:Bill Mackey·Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Kentucky Baptist Convention·Ronnie Floyd
GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again — Part 4
September 24th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist History, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, North American missions, Series - GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again, Southern Baptist Convention
In Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, I’ve focused on how similar the rhetoric surrounding the Great Commission Resurgence today is to the rhetoric regarding the newly formed Cooperative Program in the mid 1920s. In this final post in this series, I think you’ll see this to an even greater extent [...]
Tags:1:8 Leadership Experience·Acts 1:8 Challenge·Christmas in August·Cooperative Program·Foreign Board·Future Program Commission·Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·International Mission Board·Johnny Hunt·Kentucky Baptist Convention·Lottie Moon Christmas Offering·North American Mission Board·Southern Baptist Convention·Western Recorder
GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again — Part 2
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist History, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, Series - GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again
As noted in Part 1, today’s Great Commission Resurgence discussion in Baptist life has really been going in various forms at least since 1913 when the Southern Baptist Convention put together an “Efficiency Committee” to make recommendations to Southern Baptists about better ways to operate and cooperate. That discussion eventually led to the formation of [...]
Tags:C.E. Burts·Cooperative Program·Efficiency Committee·Future Program Commission·Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Layman's Missionary Movement·Lottie Moon Christmas Offering·Southern Baptist Convention·Western Recorder·Woman's Missionary Union
GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again — Part 1
September 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Baptist History, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, Series - GCR is Deja Vu All Over Again, Southern Baptist Convention
Something tells me that Yogi Berra may not be following the Great Commission Resurgence discussion in Southern Baptist life these days but one of his oft quoted malapropisms is certainly an appropriate one for the current conversation – “It’s deja vu all over again.” Because of the strong involvement and encouragement of young leaders in this [...]
Tags:Cooperative Program·Efficiency Committee·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force
Crossover Showed Southern Baptists at Their Best
September 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist seminaries
While most of the focus of the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Louisville this past June was on the formation of the Great Commission Task Force, I have to say that for me the best part was what took place before messengers ever formally assembled for business. I had the opportunity to be a part [...]
Tags:Cooperative Program·Crossover Louisville·Eliza Broadus Offering·Kentucky Baptist Convention·Kentucky Woman's Missionary Union·North American Mission Board·Southern Baptist Convention
Use Video to Share All GCR Task Force Meetings
August 30th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention
You’ll find below the video of the Great Commission Task Force’s Q&A luncheon in Rogers, Ark. last week. The task force should be commended for making this available so that the many Southern Baptists who couldn’t be there in person can see and hear what those who attended experienced. The task force may want to [...]
Tags:Al Gilbert·Al Mohler·Great Commission Task Force·Johnny Hunt·Ronnie Floyd
Great Commission Task Force Members Profiled
August 26th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention
We need to be praying for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force as it goes back to work today and tomorrow in Rogers, Ark. This meeting will be the committee’s first truly working session as the initial meetings in Atlanta earlier this month were largely organizational. This meeting will have a public component today during [...]
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Idea of Merging Mission Boards Nothing New
August 24th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist History, Great Commission Task Force, International missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention
One of the ideas floated as part of the Great Commission Resurgence discussion is that of merging the North American Mission Board and International Mission Board into a single missions organization. I don’t know if the idea will gain any traction but it’s interesting to note that according to a recent article in the Biblical [...]
Tags:Biblical Recorder·Great Commission Resurgence·International Mission Board·North American Mission Board·Southern Baptist Convention
Task Force Chair Both Encouraged and Burdened
August 13th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force
Baptist Press is reporting that Great Commission Task Force Chairman Ronnie Floyd said he is both encouraged and burdened following the initial meeting of the committee in Atlanta on Tuesday and Wednesday. That’s a good sign as the group begins its work because it implies that everyone understands that the issues are complex and will be [...]
First Great Commission Task Force Meeting Today
August 11th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention
Please be in prayer today for the opening meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force which meets today and tomorrow at the Renaissance Hotel in Atlanta. The committee is being chaired by Dr. Ronnie Floyd, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Springdale & The Church at Pinnacle Hills, Arkansas. Click here to see a [...]
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Pray for the Great Commission Task Force
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention
A new Web site has been established to encourage Southern Baptists to be in prayer for the work of the Great Commssion Task Force. You can find the site at www.prayforgcr.com. Here’s a video message from the task force chairman, Dr. Ronnie Floyd: Dr. Ronnie Floyd, Chairman of GCR Task Force from Ronnie Floyd on Vimeo.
Tags:Great Commission·Great Commission Resurgence·Great Commission Task Force·Ronnie Floyd·Southern Baptist Convention
