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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Missions Made Easy at Oneida Baptist Institute

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions

I’m pleased to share the following guest post from Dr. W.F. Underwood, president of Oneida Baptist Institute, one of the institutions of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. Oneida is a boarding school supported in part by Cooperative Program gifts. Missions Made Easy at Oneida Baptist Institute The words of Jesus in the Great Commission are clear. [...]

Kentucky ‘Connects’ to Fulfill Great Commission

September 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions

Well before the phrase Great Commission Resurgence was coined, the Kentucky Baptist Convention was about the process of refocusing its objectives and goals to develop better ways of strengthening local churches for the task of fulfilling the Great Commission. A special Mission Study Committee was appointed by the convention president in 2002 which led to [...]

GC Task Force Proposed for Kentucky

August 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, Southern Baptist Convention

The Kentucky Baptist Convention may get its own Great Commission Task Force if the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board and messengers to this November’s annual meeting approve a proposal from the Mission Board’s Administrative Committee. Here’s the news as released by the Kentucky Baptist Convention: LOUISVILLE – The Administrative Committee of the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board [...]

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 [...]