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Will You Do More for Christ in 2011?

January 1st, 2011 · No Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention

2010 was a year of big decisions for Southern Baptists. In June, Southern Baptist Convention messengers voted to approve a report calling for a Great Commission Resurgence in the convention. That was followed by just a day a decision from the SBC Executive Committee to hire former SBC President Frank Page as its new leader [...]

What Does GCR Mean Financially for Kentucky?

November 10th, 2010 · 7 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Southern Baptist Convention

Probably the most common questions I get asked these days as a Kentucky Baptist Mission Board staff member are something along the lines of “What is the Great Commission Resurgence?” and “What does it mean financially for Kentucky?” Although GCR has been discussed at great length in the blogosphere, written about extensively in the Baptist [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]