2022 Annual Meeting

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Details for the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Nelson Baptist Association Below:

Dates: Sunday, September 11th, 2022

Theme: Prepared to Defend the Faith (1 Peter 3:15)

Main Speaker: Dr. Travis Kerns, Associational Mission Strategist at Three Rivers Baptist Association and Former Salt Lake Send City Missionary for the North American Mission Board

Location: First Baptist Church Mt. Washington (320 N Bardstown Rd, Mt Washington, KY 40047)

Schedule:

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions (Childcare Will Be Available During This Time – Please Preregister Below)

5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Dinner/Ministry Booths (There Will Be A Panel Discussion In The Sanctuary at 6:00 p.m. – Childcare Not Available During This Time – Please Pick Up Your Children)

6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Worship/Business (Childcare Will Be Available During This Time – Please Preregister Below)

Childcare (3:30 – 5:00 pm / 6:30 – 8:00 pm):

Childcare will be available during the Breakout Sessions from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm and during the Worship/Business Session from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. We ask that you pick up your child during the Dinner Session from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. Childcare will NOT be provided during the Dinner Session. Childcare will be available for Pre/K and under. Please sign up using this form.

Breakout Sessions (3:30 – 5:00 pm):

Seeing Jesus in the Old Testament: Who is the Angel of the Lord? led by Nathan Young, pastor of Mercy Hill Church – Jesus claims on a few occasions that He is the primary character presented in the Old Testament scriptures. In this breakout we will look specifically at the Angel of the Lord and discuss how this Old Testament Character is the pre-incarnate Jesus who appears more often than you realize. Our hope is that through this study you will start a new and exciting journey of seeing Jesus in all the Bible.

Using Sunday School to Improve Biblical Literacy led by Darryl Wilson, Sunday School & Discipleship Consultant for the Kentucky Baptist Convention – Pastors say 50% of those in their pews do not open their Bibles between Sundays. In this breakout you’ll learn to implement 10 simple actions to lead your attenders to use and understand the Bible in class and at home.

Holding the Line lead by Blake Herron, Youth and Worship minister at FBC Shepherdsville – When we live our faith, we enter daily into hostile territory. There are some steps we can take to be prepared when attacks arise. Come prepared with the tough questions you’ve had used against your faith, and we can look at how to be prepared when the insults come.

How to Have Pro-Life Conversations led by Addis Wuchner, Executive Director for Kentucky Right to Life – In this breakout session you will hear about the current state of the right to life movement in Frankfort and how to have pro-life conversations. What can the church do to protect the unborn.

When a Knock Comes at Your Door led by Dr. Travis Kerns, Associational Mission Strategist at Three Rivers Baptist Association – We have all had them. Knocks at our door from people of other religions. In this breakout we learn how to engage these people with the truth of God’s Word and help prepare you to defend your faith against their claims.

Register for the breakout session of your choice here.

Panel Discussion (6:00 – 6:30 pm):

Equipping the Church to Defend the Faith – The topics in the area of Apologetics can greatly vary. It covers areas such as responding to people of different religions, answering questions regarding the existence of God and the reliability of the Scriptures, and engaging philosophical and cultural issues of the day. These areas cannot go unanswered by the church, therefore, during this panel discussion, we will sit down with several of our association pastors to see how they are practically equipping their churches to engage in these areas and defend the faith.

Exhibitors Please Read Below:

The Nelson Baptist Association is pleased to invite ministries that partner and cooperate with churches in our association to exhibit at our Annual Meeting. The goal of hosting exhibitors is to inform our attendees of the ministry happening in our association churches and to encourage churches to partner in the work.

If your ministry is partnering with a Nelson Baptist Association church and would like to exhibit at our 2022 Annual Meeting, please use this form to apply. The Ministry Teams will review your application and reply soon. The deadline for application is August 31st.

Please be aware that there are some proposed changes to the constitution and by-laws that will be voted upon during the Worship/Business Session at 6:30 p.m. This is why each church needs to send messengers to the Annual Meeting. According to our constitution, messengers are elected from their membership as follows:

  1. Each church shall be entitled to two (2) messengers for the first fifty (50) members.
  2. For each additional twenty-five (25) members, or major portion thereof, each church may choose one (1) messenger up to twenty (20) messengers.
  3. In addition to the number of messengers a church is allowed by its membership, it is to be noted that all pastors of member churches and team leaders, assistant team leaders, members at large of the Administrative Team, and officers of association are considered messengers.