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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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