Dr. Paul Chitwood, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, gives a video update from the site of a Kentucky Changers project in Louisville’s Shawnee neighborhood and encourages Kentucky Baptists to find ways they can do more for Christ.
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I was privileged to spend time recently with dozens of our in-state missionaries at their annual retreat. The meeting served as an excellent reminder of why some of the Cooperative Program dollars given by our churches are needed right here in Kentucky. While I am still excited about the decision of Kentucky Baptists to get
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While discussion of a possible name change for the Southern Baptist Convention overshadowed the SBC Executive Committee meeting last week, the meeting entailed much more. Other pertinent issues dealt less with debate over the relevance of our brand and more with the relevancy of the gospel for a lost world. Tom Elliff, the new president
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Attending some association annual meetings over the past few days has given me a renewed sense of the value of partnership at the local level. Churches of the Nelson Baptist Association gathered to celebrate God’s work among them on the evening of Sept. 11. My children attended a youth event with hundreds of other teens
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I had a great visit this week with John Fergusson, Executive Director of Jefferson Street Baptist Center. In their own words, Jefferson Street Baptist Center is a ministry of Southern Baptists extending gospel-centered mercy to the homeless and hurting of the greater Louisville area. Officials estimate that each year roughly 9,000 people in the Louisville
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We are short on volunteers for the Louisville mission project. Would you join me and other Kentucky Baptist Mission Board staff members as we help renovate homes in underserved neighborhoods Sept 28-Oct 1, 2011? Get info here: http://www.kybaptist.org/kychangers.
It’s been a very busy year for our disaster relief ministry. September finds Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers heading out to serve in New York, Maryland and North Carolina, as well as serving on the other side of the world in Japan. The northern coast of Japan was stuck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami
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