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Doing More for Christ Isn’t a Sacrifice

September 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · All Posts, More for Christ, Uncategorized

Sometimes it’s just easier to get a concept when you can see an example. As part of the More for Christ emphasis, the Kentucky Baptist Convention has begun rolling out a series of videos about people and churches who are taking their commitment to Christ to the next level. The video embedded above is about [...]

Former IMB Board Chair May Head KBC

May 24th, 2011 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, state conventions

Kentucky pastor and former International Misson Board Trustees Chairman Paul Chitwood has been nominated to become executive director-treasurer of the Kentucky Baptist Convention to succeed Bill Mackey who is retiring at the end of May. A special meeting of the Mission Board has been called for June 2 in Louisville to consider the recommendation from [...]

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 [...]

Thoughts on Kentucky’s GC Task Force Report

August 31st, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, KBC Great Commission Task Force

Dr. Bill Mackey, executive director for the Kentucky Baptist Convention, has shared his thoughts on the recent release of the Kentucky Great Commission Task Force report on his blog and in a column for the Western Recorder newspaper. Here’s what he had to say: I want to express gratitude to the members of Kentucky Great [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Line Between Local and Global Missions Fading Fast

March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions

International Mission Board President Jerry Rankin wrote recently about how Christ’s command to reach the world in Acts 1:8 is not intended to be understood as meaning that we are only to reach out to the world after we have reached our local communities, state and nation. We are to be reaching out in all [...]

Dateline Haiti: Survivors Will Not Be Forgotten

February 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

A fitting wrap-up of the Dateline Haiti series is this video dispatch just released from the International Mission Board from an interview of Butch Vernon, the chaplain of our 10-member Kentucky Baptist Convention Disaster Relief medical team that arrived home earlier this week. If you’ve been following the series, you know that Butch was the [...]