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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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SBC First VP Affirms Kentucky Mission Board Staff

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention

The Kentucky Baptist Convention Mission Board staff received a welcome dose of encouragement this week when Dr. John Mark Toby, the KBC president and Southern Baptist Convention first vice president led the staff worship service at the Kentucky Baptist Building in Louisville. Toby preached a sermon entitled “How Much You Matter to God” based on [...]

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