Monthly Archives: December 2013

The Christmas Story Needs the Easter Story

Christmas is a sentimental holiday, filled with childhood nostalgia, plenty of commercialism, and more opportunities to enjoy tasty treats than most of us need. More importantly, Christmas is also intricately tied to Easter and, together, the events memorialized in our Christmas and Easter celebrations are the source of eternal hope for sinners in need of […]

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Past, Present, Future

Baptist churches in Kentucky 176 years ago became convinced they could do more to reach Kentucky and the world for Christ if they partnered together than if they worked in independence and isolation. They formed an association that would later be known as the Kentucky Baptist Convention. That decision would have a profound impact upon […]

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Baptist Press: Interim Sunrise President Appointed

LOUSIVILLE, Ky. (BP) — Dale Suttles, Sunrise Children’s Services’ eastern region advancement director, has been named interim president by the Baptist child care agency’s trustees. Click here to read a letter from Sunrise to Kentucky Baptist pastors. Suttles, who was appointed during a special called trustee meeting Nov. 26, joined the Sunrise staff in January […]

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Great Commission Gains

It’s a good day to be a Kentucky Baptist! In our 176th year of cooperative ministry, Kentucky Baptists are seeing tremendous results. Adding the evangelistic work of our mission board ministries to that of our agencies and institutions and the ministry of our 2,400 churches, more than 20,000 people in came to faith in Christ […]

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