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Partners In The Mission:
Empowering Believers in Mission, Acts 1:8
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| Release Date: 10/23/2007 |
| a message from Dr. Bill Mackey, executive director |
The annual meeting of Kentucky Baptists will be held Nov. 13-14 in the beautiful, new facilities of Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown. It will be worth your time and trip just to see how this church has provided for preschoolers, children, youth and adults in their new location at the junction of Rineyville Road and Ring Road.
This will be a historic annual meeting as it will be the first held at this new location of the oldest church (1781) in the Kentucky Baptist Convention. It will also be historic due to the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the first Baptist association in North America in Philadelphia in 1707.
Each year at the opening of the first session, the Credentials Committee recommends new churches for affiliation with the Kentucky Baptist Convention. It is a real joy to welcome the pastors and members who are present. Following approval, these new churches’ representatives are able to register as messengers to the convention.
Exhibits will also be open for messengers and guests to learn about the ministries affiliated with, and sponsored by, the KBC. Representatives of the agencies, institutions, and Mission Board departments of work, as well as representatives of the North American and International Mission Boards and SBC seminaries, are present to answer questions.
Messengers and guests are encouraged to participate in all sessions Tuesday and Wednesday. Reports will be given on all ministries and missions work represented in the KBC budget. Results of an important research report and a line-up of outstanding workshops will also be offered on Wednesday morning.
Dr. Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, will speak on Tuesday night representing our national and international missions.
Other business will include approval of the budget totals for 2008-09, election of officers, approval of committee and Board members, and consideration of resolutions.
The annual meeting is the best opportunity to hear first hand about the cooperative ministries of Kentucky Baptists. Missions is at the very heart of who we are as Kentucky Baptists.
Through the unified budget plan of the Cooperative Program, Kentucky Baptists support missions and ministries in Kentucky, across North America, and around the world. This is how Kentucky Baptists work together in carrying out the Great Commission of our Lord.
I praise God for the fellowship and unity of Kentucky Baptists around the compelling passion for missions. We cannot take that fellowship and unity of purpose for granted. The Holy Spirit of God must move among us in each new generation of leaders to renew our passion for God’s great redemptive plan of the ages.
Please continue to pray for unity and respect for one another as we work together in the mission of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Dr. Mackey's column appears weekly in the Western Recorder. To subscribe to the Western Recorder, call (502) 489-3535. |
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