International missions

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Training, Tools for Africa Church Planting Offered

January 25th, 2012 · No Comments · All Posts, Church Planting, Great Commission, International missions

Is God is calling your church to serve in sub-Saharan Africa? Do you want to join other churches in learning how to be effective servants in this region? If so, you are invited to the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Go! Africa Base Camp event, March 9-10 at the Kentucky Baptist Building in Louisville. Base Camp is [...]

Conference Reaches Out to International Students

November 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Baptist Campus Ministry, Cooperative Program, Great Commission, International missions

One way Kentucky Baptists are reaching out to the world right here in Kentucky is through the Engage conference which will be held this weekend in Cave City. Put together by the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Baptist Campus Ministries and Kentucky Woman’s Missionary Union, Engage reaches out to students from around the world who are studying [...]

Kentucky GC Task Force Releases Report

August 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

Kentucky Baptists will move to an even distribution of Cooperative Program receipts with the Southern Baptist Convention and set an ambitious goal of increasing missions giving under a plan being proposed by the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force. The Task Force’s recommendations will be presented to messengers for approval at the Kentucky Baptist [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dateline Haiti: New Life in the Rubble

February 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Haiti, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the fourth 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 [...]

$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 [...]