The Annual Spring Gathering of the Nelson Baptist Association will be on Saturday, March 26th at First Baptist Church Shepherdsville located at 254 S Buckman St, Shepherdsville, KY 40165. Our meeting will go from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. and will consist of three breakout sessions, a small business session, and the main worship gathering. The theme for this year’s gathering is “The Book of Galatians.” Pastor Richard Carwile from Bloomfield Baptist Church will be our main speaker. Here is some information about our breakout sessions:

1) Bearing One Another’s Burdens: Lead by – Marshall Adkins. In this breakout we will be discussing the church’s role in soul care as we unpack Galatians 6:1-10.

2) Walking in the Spirit – Living a Fruitful Life: Lead by – Gene Smith. In this session we’ll explore the Fruits of the Spirit described in Galatians 5 and how they can manifest themselves in the life of every believer.

3) Faithfully Handling Church Conflict: Lead by – George Yates, President of SonC.A.R.E. Ministries. In this breakout SonC.A.R.E. Ministries will provide practical, reliable health and growth resources to churches desiring to be more effective from the book of Galatians.

Please use this material to promote our Spring Gathering in your church!

Our association is looking forward to hosting another Spring Gathering Training event in 2022.  Please mark your calendars for March 26th from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.  Location, speakers, and theme to be determined. 

Parkway Baptist Church in Bardstown will be hosting an ACBC Counseling and Discipleship Training from March 19, 2022 – May 21, 2022, April 22, 2022 – April 23, 2022, May 27, 2022 – May 28, 2022. Each night beginning at 5:00 PM. Parkway is located at 2580 Springfield Rd, Bardstown, KY 40004. You can register at the link below:

Here are some things happening at this year’s KBC Annual Meeting at Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown:

1) Pastors’ Conference on November 15, 2021 schedule:

Afternoon session – 2:00 – 5:00 PM
Gregg Simmons, Life Action Ministries
Marcus Hayes, lead pastor at Crossroads Baptist Church, The Woodlands, Texas
Daven Watkins, senior pastor, FBC Pelham, Alabama

Evening session – 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Jared C. Wilson, assistant professor of pastoral ministry, MWBTS
James Merritt, lead pastor, Cross Pointe Church, Duluth, GA

Find out more here: https://www.kybaptist.org/pastorsconference/

2) The Bivocational Pastors Dinner on November 15, 2021 from 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. You can register for this event here: https://www.kybaptist.org/event/bivocational-pastors-dinner/

3) The Ministers’ Wives Luncheon on November 16, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. You can register for this event here: https://www.kybaptist.org/event/ministers-wives-luncheon/

4) The Student Ministry Luncheon on November 16, 2021 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. You can register for this event here: https://www.kybaptist.org/event/student-ministry-luncheon-3/

5) Apologetics: Discipleship in a Post-Christian World Event on November 15, 2021 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.  Sign up for this event here: https://www.kybaptist.org/event/apologetics-discipleship-in-a-post-christian-world/

6) If you need childcare then you can sign up here: https://kentuckybaptist-ccr.regfox.com/2021-annual-meeting-childcare

Below is the schedule for KBC Annual Meeting:

PROGRAM AGENDA
2021 Kentucky Baptist Convention Annual Meeting
Severns Valley Baptist Church
Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Tuesday Morning
November 16 – 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

8:00 Opening Musical Celebration
8:15 Call to Order
Welcome & Opening Prayer
Organization of 184th Convention
Recommendation on Order of Business
Appointment of Tellers
Appointment of Committee on Committees
Committee on Credentials
Recognition of Fraternal Organizations
8:55 Motions/Miscellaneous Business
9:00 Committee on Constitution & Bylaws Report
9:10 Committee on Resolutions Report
9:25 Election of Secretaries
9:30 Congregational Singing
9:35 Committee on Annual Meeting Report
9:40 Introduction of President’s Address
9:45 Special Music
9:50 President’s Address
10:20 Committee on Committees Report
10:25 Gospel to Every Home / Congregational Singing
10:30 Mission Board Staff Report
11:10 Mission Board Recommendations
11:15 Crossings Ministries Report
11:20 Sunrise Children’s Services Report
11:25 Oneida Baptist Institute Report
11:30 Obituaries Report
11:35 Election of Second Vice President (Runoff for secretaries, if needed)
11:45 Motions/Miscellaneous Business
11:55 Congregational Singing
12:00 Closing Prayer

There have been five resolutions proposed for the 2021 KBC Annual Meeting. You can read them here: https://www.kybaptist.org/2021-resolutions/

We hope this guide will help you navigate all of the activities at this year’s KBC Annual Meeting.

Tuesday, October 19th

Look Before You Leap: The Move from Text to Application

Led by: Dr. Abraham Kuruvilla

The goal of preaching is to bring divine guidelines for life from the ancient biblical text to bear upon the situations of the modern congregation, thereby aligning the community of God to the will of God for the glory of God. But this preaching movement from text to application has virtually been a black box for millennia. How are preachers supposed to do this in a valid fashion and not in a random, ad hoc, and willy-nilly manner? Here’s your chance to listen to answers to these critical questions from Dr. Kuruvilla, who has been working on these thorny issues for two decades. Come one and all … and bring your questions with you! This promises to be a time of edification and enjoyment. 

Dr Abraham Kuruville is the new preaching professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He previously served as professor of pastoral ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary. He centers his ministry around the art and science of preaching: exploring preaching through research and scholarship, explaining preaching by training the next generation of church leaders and exemplifying preaching in regular pulpit engagements in the US and elsewhere. He has served as the interim preacher of churches in Texas and Massachusetts and as president of the Evangelical Homiletics Society. He has also written several preaching commentaries, and he blogs regularly at homiletix.com. Dr. Kuruvilla is also a diplomat of the American Board of Dermatology and maintains an active clinical schedule.  

PLACE:
Parkway Baptist Church
2580 Springfield Road
Bardstown, KY 40004

TIME:
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Lunch is provided.

COST:
There is no cost but registration is requested due to the need to order meals. Please register at this link: https://kentuckybaptist-ccr.regfox.com/strengthening-leaders-strengthening-churches-oct-19

Questions:
502-489-3338
866-489-3338
(toll free in Kentucky)