The 2013 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting kicked up very little Texas dust. Other than a resolution about the gay agenda finding a home in Boys Scouts of America, the biggest news coming out of Houston was the scarcity of Southern Baptists who showed up in Houston. Low messenger registration, along with reports about declining […]
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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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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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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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Why is Cooperative Program Sunday, on April 22, worth celebrating? Because through the CP, Kentucky Baptists are helping make possible the work of nearly 5,000 International Mission Board missionaries sharing Christ with more than 900 people groups around the globe. Through the CP, we also support more than 5,000 North American Mission Board missionaries. When
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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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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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New census data is revealing amazing population trends in the United States. Possibly the most remarkable trend is the explosive growth of immigrants. To illustrate that growth in Kentucky, consider that, in the past decade, the immigration population in the city of Louisville has grown by 100.9 percent! In a recent article on the booming
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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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Have an interest in learning more about church planting with the KBC? Whether you are a church planter searching for training and partnership opportunities or you want to lead your church to get involved in planting, this short video will inform you about an upcoming opportunity: http://youtu.be/f3qh_PWzkUw
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