Category Archives: Church Planting

At Bicentennial, Buck Creek Still Growing and Going

By Dr. Paul Chitwood | Published: August 29, 2012

I was privileged recently to join Pastor Thomas Webb and Buck Creek Baptist Church for their bicentennial celebration. Buck Creek originated as a plant from Beaver Dam Baptist Church and made its mother church a grandmother eight times over during its first century in existence. In addition to planting churches, Buck Creek was instrumental in [...]

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Aligning Our Structure With Our Values

By Dr. Paul Chitwood | Published: May 29, 2012

The Kentucky Baptist Convention is embracing the values expressed in our new vision statement: Created by churches, for churches, to help churches reach Kentucky and the world for Christ. In doing so, some organizational changes for our staffing structure are in order. I want to highlight two of those changes. Evangelism and Church Planting: Reaching [...]

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Racial Reconciliation at Heart of Church Plant

By Dr. Paul Chitwood | Published: April 18, 2012

I had the privilege this month to be part of an historic event at one of our Kentucky Baptist Convention churches. Consolidated Baptist Church, a predominantly African American congregation in Lexington, hosted a celebration and commissioning service for a church they planted in partnership with the KBC. Consolidated Baptist, under the leadership of Pastor Richard [...]

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Basic Training for Church Planting Offered

By Dr. Paul Chitwood | Published: December 13, 2011

Basic Training Journey for Church Planting isn’t just for pastors and “official” church planters! This is an equipping event for individuals or entire church-planting teams interested in starting new congregations, and also for churches who are interested in exploring planting a church. In this video, Dr. Paul Chitwood, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, [...]

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Great resource for churches planting churches!

By Dr. Paul Chitwood | Published: November 29, 2011

Friend and former colleague, J.D. Payne, has made available his book, Leading Your Church in Church Planting: Taking the First Steps, as a FREE(!) download. As you have seen from my past blog posts, the need for established churches to invest in church planting is tremendous. If you are ready, here is the resource to [...]

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Year end totals show a record breaking AAEO from @KentuckyBaptist churches for 2011-2012 of $2,234,942! #gettnthegospel2NorthAmerica!3 hours ago