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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. [...]

Listening Sessions Audio Now Available

June 10th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

The Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force held two listening sessions this week to hear from Kentucky Baptists regarding its task to study ways the Convention can “work more faithfully and effectively together in serving Christ through the Great Commission.” The session on Monday, June 7, was held at Severns Valley Baptist Church in [...]

Don’t Forget the Kentucky Listening Sessions!

June 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

With the Southern Baptist Convention and the big vote on the SBC’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force report just over a week away, it might be easy to forget that Kentucky will be having listening sessions for its own Great Commission Task Force on Mondayand Tuesday night of this week. Don’t do that, though, as [...]

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 [...]

Kentucky GC Task Force Plans Listening Sessions

May 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Kentucky Baptists will get a chance to share their ideas about how our Convention can most effectively fulfill the Great Commission through two upcoming listening sessions being planned by the KBC’s Great Commission Task Force. Here’s the KBC release about plans for the listening sessions: LOUISVILLE – Kentucky Baptists will have two opportunities to provide [...]

Kentucky Task Force Meeting in Princeton Today

May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Please be in prayer for Kentucky’s Great Commission Task Force as it meets today in Princeton, Ky. The committee was appointed at the KBC’s annual meeting in November after messengers approved a recommendation to form a committee to study “how Kentucky Baptists can work more faithfully and effectively together in serving Christ through the Great [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ky. Great Commssion Task Force Meets Thursday

March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Please be in prayer for Kentucky’s Great Commission Task Force as it meets March 11 at the Kentucky Baptist Building in Louisville. The committee’s February meeting was snowed out so I am sure they will be looking to make up some lost ground if possible. At this month’s meeting, the committee will hear from the [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kentucky GC Task Force Chairman Provides Update

January 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Dr. Hershael York, chairman of the Great Commission Task Force for the Kentucky Baptist Convention, has provided this update for Kentucky Baptists from the committee’s first organizational meeting held on Tuesday: On Tuesday, Jan. 5, the Great Commission Task Force of the Kentucky Baptist Convention met for the first time. Our goal is to examine [...]

Kentucky Task Force Holds First Meeting

January 5th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Kentucky’s Great Commission Task Force held its first organizational meeting at the Kentucky Baptist Building on Tuesday. Please be in prayer for this special committee as it proceeds with its work during the coming year. The committee was appointed at the KBC’s annual meeting in November after messengers approved a recommendation to form a committee [...]

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 [...]

Pray for KBC Task Force’s First Meeting

December 28th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force

Please be in prayer for the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force as it begins its work with an organizational meeting on Jan. 5. The committee was appointed at the KBC’s annual meeting in November after messengers approved a recommendation to form a committee to study “how Kentucky Baptists can work more faithfully and [...]

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 [...]

Task Force Concerned for Both SBC & KBC Work

November 18th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Todd Deaton, editor of the Western Recorder, the Kentucky Baptist newspaper, included information about the members of the newly appointed Great Commission Task Force for Kentucky in this week’s issue. He also included information about the Cooperative Program giving record of the churches the committee members attend. The committee was appointed last week by outgoing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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.

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 — 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 [...]

Just a little Kentucky Baptist history

July 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Baptist History, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention

One of the things I want to move to pretty quickly with this blog is the Cooperative Program funding formula for Kentucky since the amount of money used for various kinds of missions and ministries throughout the Southern Baptist Convention will be one of the major discussion points of the Great Commission Task Force. Before [...]

Everyone’s Talking GCR These Days

July 9th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention

I think the single most asked question I’m getting these days is: “What is the Baptist Building’s take on the Great Commission Resurgence or Great Commission Task Force?” Or, the variation might be: “What does Dr. Mackey think about the GCR?” referencing Dr. Bill Mackey, the executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. It’s a question I [...]