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Subject: February eNews from Kentucky Baptist Fellowship
Date: February 1, 2011 8:30:57 AM EST
To: josh@kybf.org
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February 2011
KBF eNews
In This Issue
WELCOME to our February
FBC Middletown
edition of KBF eNews!
Festival of Young
Preachers
Kentucky Baptist Fellowship appreciates the
2010 Church Giving
opportunity to communicate with you in this format.
Youth Choir Festival You will still be mailed regular installments of our
KBF Spring Gathering printed newsletter, KBF News. By forwarding this
2012 CBF Task Force
enewsletter along, you are inviting others to join our
mission.
KBF to Host CBF Children's
Curriculum Preview
Summer Mission
Opportunities
In late winter, the search begins for a summer mission project for the adult
construction team from the First Baptist Church of Middletown, Kentucky. While
searching through the CBF website looking for stateside mission requests, Jim
Cobban, the church's pastor, came across the names of Bob and Janice
Newell, CBF field personnel in Athens, Greece. They were searching for
American Christians with specific skills: a financial planner/debt counselor; a
computer skills teacher; and a social worker. All of these needs are for a one-
week mission project at PORTA, the Albanian cultural center in Athens. It was a
"Eureka" moment!
The following December, after a ten-day pilgrimage in the Holy Land, pastor
Jim Cobban stopped in Athens for a few days. At a meeting at PORTA, Jim and
Bob discussed how the First Baptist Church could partner with the Newells in
their outreach to the Albanian population in Greece. Without a "missions
budget," funding would have to be creative, but both men were trusting God to
supply the needs of PORTA. Returning home, Jim began to share with the
church his dream of sending First Baptist members overseas to use their
unique gifts in missions and ministry.
To read more about the Festival of Preachers, visit their Facebook page:
"Academy of Preachers" or http://www.academyofpreachers.net/
Undesignated
Missions
Morocco
New for 2011 ... Online Registration! Please register if you are attending. It will
help us prepare for all events. There is no charge to attend.
At the 2010 CBF General Assembly, then-moderator Hal Bass appointed a 14-
member task force, chaired by David Hull, to move the conversation forward on
restructuring the larger Cooperative Baptist Fellowship movement, which
includes CBF and partnering ministries. David Hull will visit Kentucky during our
annual Spring Gathering (April 29-30, Buechel Park Baptist, Louisville) to hold
listening sessions. Look for more information soon.
Karen Thomas Smith and KBF will host a Morocco Partner Church lunch on
Saturday, February 19 at Living Faith Baptist Fellowship (207 Corporate Drive,
Elizabethtown, KY 42702). We will gather at 11:30 am and lunch will be
provided by KBF. Please invite anyone in your church who is involved in the
partnership to come to this lunch as we will discuss our ongoing EEAM
relationship with Karen. We will need to have reservations for lunch no later
than February 11. RSVP by emailing josh@kybf.org.
Baptist Seminary of Kentucky Glenn Hinson Annual
Lecture Series: March 7, Conference Center,
Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Stephanie Paulsell,
Harvard Divinity School
The 2011 Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and
Separation of Church and State will be April 4-5, on the campus of Georgetown
College in Georgetown, Ky. The lecturer will be Melissa Rogers, the director of
Wake Forest University Divinity School's Center for Religion and Public Affairs
and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In 2009, President
Barack Obama named Rogers chair of his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and
Neighborhood Partnerships. Click here for more information.
Collegiate
Congregational Internship is a CBF program
that provides summer opportunities for college
students to serve through Fellowship partner
churches. Undergraduate students are eligible to
apply for the 10-week summer internships. To
apply, visit www.thefellowship.info/collegeinternship.
CALENDAR
Feb.: Martha Stearns Marshall Month of Preaching
Feb. 17: Louisville CBF "Finding Hope" Children's Curriculum Preview Lunch, 11
AM
Feb. 19: Morocco Partner Church Lunch, Living Faith Baptist Fellowship, 11 AM -
12 Noon
Apr. 29-30: KBF 2011 Spring Gathering, Buechel Park Baptist Church, Louisville,
KY
Oct. 27-28: Kentucky Council of Church General Assembly, Faith Baptist Church,
Georgetown, KY
Phone: 502-426-1931
Fax: 502-426-1612
Office email: office@kybf.org
Website: http://www.kybf.org/
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