 The Mission Service and Ministries Department supports Mission Service Corps and career appointed missionaries, coordinates with regional ministries, promotes prayer and provides other services to churches and mission leaders.
Eleven state conventions, including Kentucky, have formed a consortium to identify needs and encourage volunteers to become involved in ministry projects in the 10-state Appalachian mountain region.
Kentucky Baptists Connect has established major objectives and goals that will help churches throughout Kentucky seize an important opportunity to reach out to lost people in our state in an unprecedented way. One of the Connect goals is to launch a new ministry that touches a group of people your church has not reached before. The Church Reaching Out is a strategy developed to help churches begin new outreach ministry points.
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The Mission Service and Ministries Department provides training, support, resources, and networking that assists churches, associations, and Christian ministry centers in the following areas: feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, job skill development, freedom from substance abuse, and housing for the homeless.
The Mission Service and Ministries Department works with the North American Mission Board to provide assessment studies, networking, support, training, and ministry development to associations, churches, and centers involved in this challenging ministry.
As Baptists reach out to help people learn to read and write, learners become open to hearing the Gospel from the caring people who were concerned enough to teach them. The Kentucky Baptist Convention provides training and support for individuals, churches and associations who are interested in literacy ministry in the following areas: English as a Second Language, Tutoring Children and Youth, and Adult Reading and Writing.
Many people in Kentucky have limited access to health care because they cannot pay for it. Associations, churches, and mission centers see this as an opportunity to share Christ and are learning and networking together to provide medical and dental care through ministry centers, mobile clinics and health fairs.
Missions Service Corps enlists, trains and assigns self-funded and bivocational missionaries in response to requests from local churches or associations. MSC is a plan of Southern Baptists to enlist adult volunteers who will serve a minimum of 20 hours per week for four months or longer in a variety of ministries. These ministries include church staff position, apartment minister, literacy volunteers, chaplains, church and community ministry coordinators and more.
A partnership of the area’s seven state conventions has developed to address the needs of the people of the lower Mississippi River region through the development and coordination of volunteer mission projects. The partnership networks with the North American Mission Board and Woman’s Missionary Union to resource and respond to projects and ministries developed and sponsored by associations and churches.
Kentucky has a tremendous heritage of spiritual awakening, and many are praying that God will again sweep the state with a spirit of revival. The Mission Service and Ministries Department is calling Kentucky Baptists to prayer through conferences, prayer meetings, and a network of prayer coordinators. The Kentucky Baptist Convention provides training, support, and resources for churches and associations that are interested in developing this most important discipline of prayer. Click here for more prayer resources.
The following is a sampling of workshops that can be scheduled in churches and associations upon request:
Prayer
- Establishing a Prayer Ministry in Your Church
- Stirring Your Church to Pray
- Incorporating Prayer into Worship
- Prayer Leader Training
- Praying with Insight through Prayerwalking
- Praying the Lost to Christ
- The Importance of Corporate Prayer
Community Ministry
- Reaching New People through Community Ministry
- Developing a Church Ministry Plan
- Assessing Your Community and Church for Ministry
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