2025 Annual Meeting

Watch the Worship Session of the Annual Meeting here!

Dates: Sunday, September 7th, 2025

Theme: Our Gospel Partnership: Celebrating 100 Years of the Cooperative Program (Philippians 1:3-5)

Main Speaker: Dr. Todd Gray, Executive Director for the Kentucky Baptist Convention

Location: Parkway Baptist Church (2580 Springfield Rd, Bardstown, KY 40004)

Schedule:

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

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Dinner/Ministry Booths (Childcare Will Not Available During This Time – Please Pick Up Your Children)

6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

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. Register for childcare by filling out this form!

Breakout Sessions (3:30 – 5:00 pm):

Reaching Gen Z by Tara and Aaron Branch (Area Representatives at Greater Louisville FCA): Who is Gen Z? What are they like? What are the best practices to reach them with the Gospel? Join us for this breakout as we wrestle with these questions.

Overcoming Objections in Evangelism by Jason Hay (Evangelism Strategist for the Kentucky Baptist Convention): Learn how to confidently share your faith by overcoming common objections with grace and clarity. In this session, you will be equipped with strategies that invite further conversations and permission to speak into someone’s spiritual journey beyond the initial encounter.

Front Door Evangelism by Todd Gray (Executive Director for the Kentucky Baptist Convention): This simply, one-hour training is designed to help everyday believers gain confidence in sharing their faith – specifically through making intentional visits to homes in their community. This session isn’t about pressure, programs, or personality. It’s about offering a practical and biblical way for people to step out in faith and talk to others about Jesus.

Don’t Amputate your Missionaries from the Body: The Vital Role of the Local Church in the Great Commission by Jimmy Winfrey (Regional Leader for Latin America for Disciple the Nations): In recent decades, too many Churches have outsourced the missionary task to para-church organizations. This session will examine the biblical teaching that local churches are God’s chosen means for raising up, sending out, and caring well for workers being sent into the harvest. A special focus will be given on the practical ways churches can develop missions policies that honor their responsibility to actively engage in reaching the nations with the gospel of Christ.

Training Women to Delight in Serving Missionaries by Susan Bryant (Legacy Ambassador Representative WMU): We are called to serve with great delight because of the purpose for which we serve. This session will ask some basic questions: 1) Is WMU in your church, if not why not? 2) Why are we on fire about evangelism? 3) We are you attempting to run this race alone?

Register for a breakout session by filling out this form!

Panel Discussion (6:00 – 6:30 pm)

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 2025 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.

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.