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Racially Diverse Churches are ‘Practice for Heaven’

February 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky missions

If we are ever to reach our Commonwealth for Christ, we must learn to break through the racial barriers we continue to have as Baptists. Here’s a great story of a church doing just that. Pastors: Racially Diverse Churches are ‘Practice for Heaven’ WOODBURN – “Is that church down there supposed to be a black [...]

Trivial Problems?

February 1st, 2012 · 2 Comments · Great Commission, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky ministries, Kentucky missions, North American missions

I read a quote today that caught my attention from a December incident: “It was a trivial problem that…occurs every year…No one was arrested because all those involved were men of God,” stated Palestinian Police Lt. Col. Khaled al-Tamimi about the December 28 Christmas fight that broke out among several dozen Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests [...]

I’m Not Trained, But I Did Stay at a Holiday Inn Express Last Night

January 19th, 2012 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Disaster Relief

Believers often ask in Disaster Relief, “Why do I have to go through training to serve as a disaster relief volunteer? Why can’t I just go help people?” Preparation is important in any area of ministry as it enables us to be more effective as we seek to be used by God to reach or [...]

Without CP, There Would Be a Lot of Empty Hands

July 27th, 2011 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission

Baptists don’t always understand the value and importance of the Cooperative Program in enabling a wide host of missions endeavors across the nation and around the world. The video embedded here seeks to demonstrate what would be missing in Kingdom work without this powerful missions-funding tool. The video is also available for download from the [...]

CP Goes Around and Comes Around

March 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Disaster Relief

Check out this Kentucky Baptist Convention podcast featuring Ian Sterling, a disaster relief volunteer, who came to Christ through the ministry of a KBC disaster relief team seven years ago. Sterling, of Las Vegas, Nev., was working with the American Red Cross during its response to Hurricane Ivan in Bay Minette, Ala., when he came [...]

CP Allocations Shift Leading to Kentucky Cuts

January 31st, 2011 · No Comments · All Posts, Baptist Campus Ministry, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence, Great Commission Task Force, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Uncategorized

The Kentucky Baptist Convention announced position cuts among its Mission Board staff today as it shifts funds to national and international missions as part of the Great Commission Task Force plan approved by messengers to the annual meeting in November. Here’s the Convention’s official release: KBC Announces Staff Reductions for FY 11-12 LOUISVILLE – The [...]

KBC Annual Meeting Most Important in a Lifetime

October 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention

Kentucky Baptist Convention churches are encouraged to send a full contingent of messengers to this year’s annual meeting at Immanuel Baptist Church in Lexington on Nov. 16. It’s not hyperbole to say that this year’s meeting may very well be the most important held in the lifetimes of almost all Kentucky Baptists. In addition to [...]

The Meaning of Cooperation

October 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Great Commission Resurgence

One of the good things that has come out of the Great Commission Resurgence discussion among Southern Baptists for the past couple of years now has been the close examination of the Cooperative Program. Some might argue that the discussion has had a negative effect on CP since some who have pushed the GCR seem [...]

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 [...]

Kentucky GC Task Force Releases Report

August 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · All Posts, Cooperative Program, International missions, KBC Great Commission Task Force, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Kentucky Baptist entities, Kentucky missions, North American missions, Southern Baptist Convention

Kentucky Baptists will move to an even distribution of Cooperative Program receipts with the Southern Baptist Convention and set an ambitious goal of increasing missions giving under a plan being proposed by the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Task Force. The Task Force’s recommendations will be presented to messengers for approval at the Kentucky Baptist [...]