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The World is Coming to Kentucky’s Colleges

February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist Campus Ministry, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention

As I have shared here before, one of the powerful ways that Kentucky Baptists are reaching the world for Christ is through the international missions work of Baptist Campus Ministry. Each year, thousands of students from countries around the world come to U.S. colleges to receive the benefits of American higher education. Many will be [...]

Baptist Campus Ministry Finding Unity in Diversity

February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist Campus Ministry

If Southern Baptists are to be a part of seeing the Great Commission fulfilled, one of the barriers we must ultimately overcome is that of racial prejudice. Much progress has been made but Sunday morning continues to be one of the most racially segregated times of the week in America. In this guest post, Curtis [...]

KBC’s Great Commission Task Force Meets Today

February 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Please be in prayer for Kentucky’s Great Commission Task Force as it holds its second meeting today at the Kentucky Baptist Building in Louisville. 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 [...]

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 [...]

Dateline Haiti: God Revealed on Hectic Final Day

February 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the sixth of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: New Life in the Rubble

February 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Haiti, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the fourth of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: Team Confronting Difficult Situations

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention

This is the third of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: “People Here Are Scared”

February 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the second of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city today. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: A Bookcase Becomes a Pharmacy

February 1st, 2010 · 11 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the first of what we hope will be several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince today (Monday) and will be ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred [...]

$20 Buys 100 Pounds of Rice in Haiti

January 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Haiti, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention

The Southern Baptist disaster relief assessment team is back in Miami and meeting with the assessment team from the Florida Baptist Convention to formulate the long term Southern Baptist response to the Haiti earthquake disaster. I think we can anticipate recommendations that will keep Southern Baptists busy for the long haul but that may also [...]

Haiti Prayer Video Available for Download

January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention

A short video to encourage prayer and giving in the wake of the Haiti earthquake disaster is available for free download. The video was produced by the Florida Baptist Convention but they have given permission for us to tag it with information about how to give to support Haiti relief through Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief. [...]

Baptists Do Know How CP Gifts Are Allocated

January 21st, 2010 · 4 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Southern Baptist Convention, state conventions

This post continues the GCR Myth Buster series I introduced earlier. Find links to the other posts released so far at the bottom of this one.
One of the statements I sometimes read within the Great Commission Resurgence discussion is that Southern Baptists do not understand how their Cooperative Program funds are being used. This usually [...]

Disaster Assessment Team at Work in Haiti

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Haiti, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention

Southern Baptists’ disaster assessment team is in Haiti after a grueling trip over the mountain range that separates the island nation from the Dominican Republic to its east. The five-member team, which includes Disaster Relief Associate Coy Webb from the Kentucky Baptist Convention, is now at work setting up the logistical structures that will be [...]

Remember These Specific Prayer Requests for Haiti

January 15th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Haiti, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, state conventions

I am sure everyone is already in prayer for the people in Haiti and the chaotic situation there today but let me give you a few specific items to add to your prayer list in the wake of this terrible tragedy.
First, pray for the Southern Baptist assessment teams that are going into Haiti this weekend [...]

‘Find it Here’ Media Buy for Kentucky Announced

January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, state conventions

The Kentucky Baptist Convention has just announced its plans for a major media buy in conjunction with the “Find it Here” door-to-door evangelism initiative set for this Spring. The media campaign will allow us here in Kentucky to reach approximately 85 percent of our state’s adult population with a gospel message an average of three-and-a-half [...]

State, National Missions Also Important

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions, state conventions

This post continues the GCR Myth Buster series I introduced earlier. Find links to the other posts released so far at the bottom of this one.

I’ve never heard anyone say specifically that missions work in the United States is less important than international missions work but I’ve certainly come across some who, in their commendable [...]

Taking the Great Commission to American Samoa

January 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Often when we think about sharing the gospel across the United States, we think about our 48 contiguous states plus Alaska and Hawaii. But there are other parts of “America” around the world as well.
Kentucky Baptists are ministering in one of those places right now — American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States [...]

State Conventions Stretched, Not Bloated

January 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, state conventions

This post begins the GCR Myth Buster series I introduced earlier. Several posts on this topic will follow in the days ahead although I’ll also be posting other items as needed.
As a communicator, I have to say right up front that part of me hates to even talk about the “bloated bureaucracies” myth because simply [...]

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 the [...]

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 for [...]

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 effectively [...]

MSC Helping to Fulfill Great Commission

December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions

In my last post on Appalachian Regional Ministry, I mentioned that a number of Eastern Kentucky ministries are led by Mission Service Corps missionaries. MSC is a task force of missionaries who give full or part time service for two years or more.

Appalachian Ministry Reaching Out With God’s Love

December 10th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, state conventions

The world has tremendous needs and Baptists are right to think long and hard about the best ways to ensure that every dollar given is used to spread the Gospel. This has led us to think primarily about international missions in the current focus on the Great Commission Resurgence. I think it’s equally important for us to [...]

The World is Coming to Us Right Here in Kentucky

December 1st, 2009 · 6 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions

Since so much of the energy of the Great Commission Resurgence is focused on international missions, I’ve tried in this Great Commission Kentucky blog to direct attention to some of the many ways Kentucky Baptists are participating in international missions through their state convention. One of the most significant of these is Baptist Campus Ministry.
In [...]

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 Kentucky [...]

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 Theological [...]

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 [...]

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 areas [...]

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 the [...]

Cooperative Program Definition is Important

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention

There has been some discussion in recent months about the possibility of changing or adjusting the definition of what constitutes a Cooperative Program gift. The official definitions were only nailed down precisely by the Southern Baptist Convention at the annual meeting in June 2007 and by the Kentucky Baptist Convention at its annual meeting in [...]

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 [...]

Associations Are Vital Great Commission Partners

October 13th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions

As Southern Baptists have focused on fulfilling the Great Commission, the discussion has largely centered on the work of our two mission boards — the International Mission Board and North American Mission Board. I’ve also shared quite a bit about how the Kentucky Baptist Convention is engaging in missions both across the street and [...]

It’s Not Always Glamorous But CP Sure is Vital

October 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

Designated gifts are wonderful things. Just ask any pastor who has experienced the joy of having someone in his congregation share that they want to make a special donation to buy the new piano needed in the sanctuary, make the lead gift to get the church’s capital campaign off the ground or make up the [...]

Partnership Missions Goes to ‘All the World’

October 1st, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Sometimes we have a tendency to think that state conventions minister only in their states or that the International Mission Board ministers only overseas in far away lands. The reality though is that both organizations minister both at home and around the world. A prime example of this shows up in partnership missions.
The Kentucky Baptist [...]

Missions Made Easy at Oneida Baptist Institute

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions

I’m pleased to share the following guest post from Dr. W.F. Underwood, president of Oneida Baptist Institute, one of the institutions of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. Oneida is a boarding school supported in part by Cooperative Program gifts.
Missions Made Easy at Oneida Baptist Institute
The words of Jesus in the Great Commission are clear. Reach the [...]

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 [...]

Crossover Showed Southern Baptists at Their Best

September 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Cooperative Program, Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist seminaries

While most of the focus of the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Louisville this past June was on the formation of the Great Commission Task Force, I have to say that for me the best part was what took place before messengers ever formally assembled for business. I had the opportunity to be a part [...]

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 [...]

Key ‘Find it Here’ Deadline Approaching

August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions

An important deadline for the upcoming “Find it Here” door-to-door evangelism campaign being sponsored by the Kentucky Baptist Convention, North American Mission Board and Kentucky associations is coming up soon. “Find it Here” is a wonderful opportunity for Baptists to put the talk about fulfilling the Great Commission into action but in order to do so, [...]

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 has approved [...]

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 [...]

Partnership Missions and the Great Commission

August 17th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

Today I’m excited to share a guest post from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Partnership Missions director, Scott Pittman. Scott’s current ministry is a great example of the partnership between the local church, state convention and national Southern Baptist entities in seeking to fulfill the Great Commission. In fact, the very fact that he is even [...]

New KBC Missions Budget Brochures Available

August 12th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist seminaries

In the previous posts titled, “Kentucky CP Giving — Part of the Story,” “Kentucky CP Giving — More of the Story,” and “Kentucky CP Giving…the Rest of the Story,” I shared how Cooperative Program dollars are divided in Kentucky and also explored what the total church giving picture looks like in terms of the division between [...]

Disaster Relief is Ministry and Missions in Action

August 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions

I indicated in a previous post that I find it hard to separate ministry, missions and evangelism because they should all be a part of the daily Christian life that is built into the Great Commission. I was reminded of an example of that this week when Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers were called into [...]

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 [...]

‘Find it Here’ to help fulfill Great Commission

July 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

One of the ways the Kentucky Baptist Convention works with churches in fulfilling the Great Commission here in our state is by taking a coordinating role in major evangelism initiatives. Right now, for instance, the KBC is preparing – in partnership with Kentucky associations and the North American Mission Board – for a major evangelistic effort in [...]

Kentucky CP Giving…The Rest of the Story

July 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, North American missions, Series - Kentucky CP Giving, Southern Baptist Convention

As we think about how Southern Baptists financially support various missions and ministry endeavors on a state, national and international basis, our thoughts immediately go to the Cooperative Program. And rightly so. The Cooperative Program is the single biggest funding source in Baptist life, with many Baptist entities depending on it for at least a portion of [...]

Kentucky CP Giving — More of the Story

July 17th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Series - Kentucky CP Giving, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist seminaries

In the last post about Kentucky’s Cooperative Program allocations, I talked about the process the Kentucky Baptist Mission Board and annual meeting messengers use in dividing the Cooperative Program pie three ways to fund missions endeavors within the state and around the world. In this post, I’ll give you the details of the budget goals [...]

And now a word from our sponsor…

July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions

I’ll pick up with the detail about Kentucky’s Cooperative Program allocations in the next post but since I know all of the readers of this blog aren’t necessarily from Kentucky, I thought I would drop in here a short video about the convention and the various agencies and institutions that receive CP funds. The video [...]