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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There’s Still Time to Give to Lottie Moon!

December 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Cooperative Program, International missions, Southern Baptist Convention

If you’ve not already made your gift to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions you can still do so even if you don’t get it in before Christmas. This offering is the ideal way for Southern Baptists to support international missions for a couple of really good reasons: Because your Lottie Moon gift [...]

The World is Coming to Us Right Here in Kentucky

December 1st, 2009 · 6 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions

Since so much of the energy of the Great Commission Resurgence is focused on international missions, I’ve tried in this Great Commission Kentucky blog to direct attention to some of the many ways Kentucky Baptists are participating in international missions through their state convention. One of the most significant of these is Baptist Campus Ministry. [...]

Ky. Seeds Reap Harvest in Republic of Georgia

November 21st, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Baptist Global Response is one of the ways that state conventions play a direct role in international missions. BGR is basically an extension of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief but with the emphasis placed on responses to international disasters. Kentucky most recently sent a BGR team to the Philippines in October following massive flooding there that [...]

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 [...]

Associations Are Vital Great Commission Partners

October 13th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions

As Southern Baptists have focused on fulfilling the Great Commission, the discussion has largely centered on the work of our two mission boards — the International Mission Board and North American Mission Board. I’ve also shared quite a bit about how the Kentucky Baptist Convention is engaging in missions both across the street and around [...]

It’s Not Always Glamorous But CP Sure is Vital

October 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

Designated gifts are wonderful things. Just ask any pastor who has experienced the joy of having someone in his congregation share that they want to make a special donation to buy the new piano needed in the sanctuary, make the lead gift to get the church’s capital campaign off the ground or make up the [...]

Partnership Missions Goes to ‘All the World’

October 1st, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Sometimes we have a tendency to think that state conventions minister only in their states or that the International Mission Board ministers only overseas in far away lands. The reality though is that both organizations minister both at home and around the world. A prime example of this shows up in partnership missions. The Kentucky [...]

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 [...]

Preparing for a Great Commission Resurgence

August 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions

I’m pleased to share a guest post from Joy Bolton, executive director of the Kentucky Woman’s Missionary Union. Joy provides leadership to state WMU work and consulting in all areas of WMU work. She coordinates the state missions promotion, Kentucky WMU Annual Meeting and works closely with the Kentucky WMU Executive Board. Joy shares here [...]

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 [...]

Partnership Missions and the Great Commission

August 17th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

Today I’m excited to share a guest post from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Partnership Missions director, Scott Pittman. Scott’s current ministry is a great example of the partnership between the local church, state convention and national Southern Baptist entities in seeking to fulfill the Great Commission. In fact, the very fact that he is even [...]

New KBC Missions Budget Brochures Available

August 12th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist seminaries

In the previous posts titled, “Kentucky CP Giving — Part of the Story,” “Kentucky CP Giving — More of the Story,” and “Kentucky CP Giving…the Rest of the Story,” I shared how Cooperative Program dollars are divided in Kentucky and also explored what the total church giving picture looks like in terms of the division between [...]

What is Your Definition of Missions?

August 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, Southern Baptist Convention

Much of the Great Commission Resurgence discussion these days seems to revolve — at least from a funding standpoint — around the topic of mission priorities. Southern Baptists are legitimately asking, “How can we make sure that the dollars we put in the offering plate do the utmost good in fulfilling the Great Commission?” Most [...]

Kentucky CP Giving…The Rest of the Story

July 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, North American missions, Series - Kentucky CP Giving, Southern Baptist Convention

As we think about how Southern Baptists financially support various missions and ministry endeavors on a state, national and international basis, our thoughts immediately go to the Cooperative Program. And rightly so. The Cooperative Program is the single biggest funding source in Baptist life, with many Baptist entities depending on it for at least a portion of [...]

Kentucky CP Giving — More of the Story

July 17th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Series - Kentucky CP Giving, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist seminaries

In the last post about Kentucky’s Cooperative Program allocations, I talked about the process the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board and annual meeting messengers use in dividing the Cooperative Program pie three ways to fund missions endeavors within the state and around the world. In this post, I’ll give you the details of the budget goals [...]

Kentucky CP Giving — Part of the Story

July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Series - Kentucky CP Giving

One of the big questions being asked in relation to the Great Commission Resurgence is “How much money is staying within any given state convention versus how much is being sent on to Southern Baptist Convention causes?” We live in a very lost world and Southern Baptists are legitimately wanting to make sure their missions dollars [...]

What is Great Commission Kentucky?

July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions

If you’re reading this post, you’re in on the ground floor of a brand new place to share and discuss the ways God is at work in the state of Kentucky. As you can probably tell by the name, it’s been born out of the latest big discussion in Southern Baptist Convention life — the [...]