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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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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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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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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 [...]

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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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