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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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What is Great Commission Kentucky?

July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions

If you’re reading this post, you’re in on the ground floor of a brand new place to share and discuss the ways God is at work in the state of Kentucky. As you can probably tell by the name, it’s been born out of the latest big discussion in  Southern Baptist Convention life — the [...]

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