February 2010 KBF eNewsletter

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KBF eNews February 2010

In This Issue

Church Spotlight

Eight Nada Families to

Receive New Homes

Marriage Mini-Retreat

Clergy / Leader Retreat

Georgetown MinistersConference

KBF Spring Gathering

Youth Choir Festival

Mission Opportunities

ExtremeBuild2010

On the Road Again

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Church Spotlight:First Baptist Church, Corbin

Minister to Youth and Children excited to

be using the Fellowship's Ignite curriculum

Wanting to connect Bible study with current

missional and social justices emphases led

Nicole Farrar, minister to youth and children at First Baptist Church in

Corbin, KY, shown right, to choose the Fellowship's Ignite curriculum to

direct missions study for her youth.

"I do really like the content. I like the reflection questions, and the

biblical background," she said. "With limited teaching time each week, I

feel that striking a balance between Bible Study and the mission

emphasis is important. My goal is always to connect the two and that

requires thoughtful planning."

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This fall, Nicole started with the chapter called "A Mission for the Millennium" that

included a section about the millennium development goals (MDG). After one lesson,

she realized that her youth needed much more background information and a clearer

connection between the MDGs and the Kingdom of God. "So, I pretty much created my

own connection lesson for the following week, using outside resources," she said.

"I think the content and theological perspective Ignite teaches are so important that I

am willing to do whatever necessary to use this material as the backbone of my

Wednesday night teaching time," Nicole said.

Studying about the MDGs while learning more about God's vision for the world is one

benefit that high school junior Meredith Huff has gotten from the Ignite curriculum. "I

really like the lessons we've learned so far," she said. "I've learned how our youth group

and church can work, like others, to really make a difference in the world for God. There

are big challenges, but with God we can meet them!"

"My kids live in a small town," Nicole said. "They need to hear some shocking statistics,

they need to see the photographs, they need to learn about what actual life is like indifferent places around the world. But most kids will only engage with the material when

it is specifically applied to their local setting. So connecting who the least of these is in

their high school is key."

Ignite's missions focus changes each month and therefore provides good variety, Nicole

said. "I feel I am offering my youth choices. Not everybody will be passionate about the

same issue. Perhaps in the course of a year we can find at least one issue or problem

each can be invested in, and I can further help them to connect with organizations who

participate in that type of work."

"Through our lessons so far, I've noticed kids really begin to be thoughtful about the

differences that exist in the world," she said. "I'm sure much of what we've discussed in

these lessons is shocking to them. I try to help them see that the problems need not be

overwhelming and that they can help by joining in work already being done by others."

Nicole said Ignite is the right curriculum for churches that want their students to see the

needs of the world around them and get involved in meeting those needs. "This material

will help teach your young people that holistic mission is an essential part of a dynamic

(and biblical) Christian faith. It will help them see service as something that gives

meaning and purpose to life. It's an important resource for high schoolers especially, as

they are in the process of exploring their options for college and career - it can help

shape the vision of the future that they see."

Eight Nada Families to Receive New Homes in 2010


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Over the Christmas holidays in Nada, four families moved into apartments or moved in

with family in preparation for the demolition of their current home. The hope is that

these four families will move back to Nada into their completed homes in April. Then a

new set of four families will move into apartments or with family in late April or early

May as they await the construction of their homes. An organization will be coming to

Nada to lead three financial counseling sessions with these eight families helping them

to establish an escrow account for their property taxes and homeowners insurance so

that they aren't hit with a high bill all at once.Each home will be 1000 sq. feet with three bedrooms and one bath.Paula Settle will provide classes for these families with the help of the county extension

agent's office. Budgeting, house cleaning, and house maintenance issues are some of

the topics that will be discussed by Paula. By attending these classes, each family will

earn points to enabling them to "purchase" new items for their houses donated by

various churches.

The first four families are:

Carrie Helton and grandson

Tina and Eddie Venters and their two sons

Billy and Minnie Denniston and their grandsonDori Helton and her three children

Please be in prayer for these families, for Paula Settle and Emilee Causey, and the

community of Nada as they adjust to the many transitions that lay ahead for 2010.


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to register: 502-863-7971; [email protected].

KBF Spring Gathering and Auxilary Events: April 23-24

Stanford Baptist Church, Stanford

Special Guest: Robert Parham, left,

Executive Director, Baptist Center for Ethics

KBF Leadership Conference

"Helping My Church Become Missional"

April 23, 2010, 2 to 5 PM

KBF Pastor's Luncheon

April 23, 2010, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Conference & Luncheon Speaker:

Michael Tutterow, Pastor, left,

Wieuca Road Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA

Baptist Seminary of

Kentucky Banquet

Stanford Baptist Church, StanfordApril 23, 2010, 5:15 pm to 6:45 PM

Cost: $15/person; Advance reservations required.

Contact Glenda Simpson at BSK Office by April 19:

859-455-8191 or [email protected]


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Lodging

Hampton Inn

100 Montgomery Way

Danville, KY 40422

859-236-6200

55 rooms

Rate: $69.00

Cut-off Date for Room Block:

4/5/10

Country Hearth Inn

1641 Hustonville Rd

Danville, KY 40422

859-236-8601

36 rooms

Rate: $55.00

Cut-off Date for Room Block:

4/5/10

Best Western

210 Brenda Ave.

Danville, KY 40422

859-236-5525

30 rooms

Rate: $53.99

Cut-off Date for Room Block:3/23/2010

Kentucky Baptist Fellowship

2010 Youth Choir Festival*


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April 23-24, 2010

Stanford Baptist Church, Stanford, KY

(in conjunction with the KBF Spring Gathering)

Dr. John W. Campbell, Director

Director of Choral Activities, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY

Festival Repertoire:

Make A Joyful Noise (Benjamin Harlan)

Moto, Moto (arr. by John W. Campbell)

Create In Me A Clean Heart (Carl Mueller)

How Deep The Father's Love For Us (arr. by Larry Shackley)

Cost: $10 per singer ($120 max per choir)

Registration by March 26 through the KBF Office

KBF Cluster Rehearsals (Not Mandatory)

April 11, 2010 - 3-5pm

Louisville: Highland Baptist Church | 1101 Cherokee Road

(Contact - Kathy Collier: [email protected])

Lexington: Calvary Baptist Church | 150 E. High Street

(Contact - Seth Hix: [email protected])

*Open to all church youth choirs, ensembles, and individuals.No auditions required.

MISSION ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES


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COLLEGE MISSION ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

College students interested in summer internship opportunities can apply now throughStudent.Go. It's a great way to spend a summer to make a difference in our world.

YOUTH & CHILDREN MISSION ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Passport Missions

1-800-769-0210

Passportkids!1-800-769-0210

The Timothy Project1-877-333-9986

Toching Miami with Love 305-397-3857

Additionally, you may contact Josh Speight to inquire about other opportunities withWayside Christian Mission in Louisville, Jeff Street Baptist Community at Liberty inLouisville, Together For Hope in McCreary County, Owsley County, and Powell County,or any other options.

MISSION ENGAGEMENT THROUGH THE CBF/KBF

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Field Personnel serve in Kentucky and beyond. There

are many opportunities for you and your congregation to connect with their service.

Here are some ways:

Stay involved with your time - fellowshipportal.ning.com

Support with your gifts to the Offering for Global Missions

www.thefellowship.info/OGM


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Go with your presence - 2010 mission opportunities can be found here and at

www.kybf.org

CBF FIELD PERSONNEL CONNECTED TO KENTUCKYSteve Clark and Annette Ellard (Louisville,

KY) minister in Louisville, KY, among Karen

refugees from Burma. The Karen, who began

resettling in the United States from refugee

camps in Thailand in 2006, have suffered

through nearly 60 years of civil war and

persecution at the hands of Burma's military

rulers. Due to the historic influence of Baptist

missionaries, about forty percent of the Karen

are Christian. Steve and Annette--along with

Crescent Hill Baptist Church where they are

members--are welcoming a growing group of

Karen refugees and helping them adapt to life in

the United States.

Steve and Annette welcome Kentucky Fellowship

Baptists to engage in ministry with refugees

from Burma and other parts of the world by praying, giving and going. Periodically,

we will be collecting items needed in the refugee community. Also, we welcome

individuals or groups to join in targeted projects or to develop long-term relationships

with a refugee family.

We are currently working on a plan to do a canvas of refugee apartments on the

weekend of the time-change to help families learn how to change out batteries in

smoke detectors. We'd love to have churches provide the 9 volt batteries and recruit

volunteers to participate. We would like for this to be an opportunity to do a nice

service and offer to pray with the families and listen to their prayer requests .

Christy Craddock (Miami, FL) is one

of four CBF field personnel serving at

Touching Miami with Love. The center

follows Jesus' example of ministry to the

poor, reaching out to children, youth,

families and people who are homeless by

providing a variety of services - summer

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Christmas store, tax services and

assistance finding jobs, housing and

social services.

She ministers mainly to youth who've grown up in Overtown, the poorest community

in Florida. Teenagers in this inner city community, many who are raised by extended

family instead of their parents, witness the effects of poverty in their homes and

neighborhood - crime, prostitution, drug trafficking, teenage pregnancy, low

graduation rates, substandard housing.

"I really want to offer them freedom in Christ, and hope that despite harsh

circumstances and surroundings, they can become who it is that they want to be in

life." Craddock said.

Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft (New

York, NY) serves as one of the

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's field

personnel, ministering in New York's

Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, home to

immigrant families and many people

struggling to survive in the city.

Hambrick serves through Metro Baptist

Church and its adjoining Rauschenbusch

Metro Ministries. She is involved inMetro's community ministries, including

the teen center, summer day camp, clothes closet and food pantry.

"I know the person of Christ as someone who wants all people to feel loved and

valuable despite whatever temporary situations they are living in," said Hambrick, a

graduate of the Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond, a Fellowship partner. "I

think it is important to simply be with people, to sit with them and say, 'Life is not

always fair, but even though your life may not look like the person's next to you, you

are still made in the image of God. God loves you and desires for you to know that.'"

Paula Settle (Powell and Owsley County,

KY)serves in eastern Kentucky with Mountain

Hope, the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship's rural

poverty effort in three Kentucky communities:

Owsley County, McCreary County and Powell


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County's community of Nada. Her work is part of

Together of Hope, CBF's rural poverty initiative

in 20 of the poorest counties in the United

States.

"I am working with individual families, reading

to children in the local elementary school,

working in a food pantry, a clothes closet,

women's groups, summer mission teams,

housing repairs, senior adult assisted living

center, and being an advocate for the poor with

the school system and government agencies. I have opportunities to share God's love

with individuals and in group settings," Settle said.

Paula would welcome mission teams, Kroger gift cards, Walmart cards, linens, and

adopt-a-classroom sponsors. During 2010, eight families in Nada will receive new

houses. Household items are needed for these families.

Fran and Lonnie Turner

(Sub-Saharan Africa) invest their

expertise and gifts from CBF to help the

people of Sub-Saharan Africa have

access to uncontaminated water.

They dig boreholes, a form of water

wells, for villagers in Zambia's bush.

With a dependable supply of fresh

water, villagers can do better than

survive seasons of death-dealing

drought. A steady supply of

uncontaminated water is also the

missing ingredient to securing Zambians

against water-borne illness,

from diarrhea to cholera.

"Fran and I grew up with poverty,"

Lonnie Turner said. "As we review our own pilgrimages, we can see the importance of

education in our lives. We also had caring people around us to offer assistance. With

access to clean water, sanitation and primary health care, you can turn around a

community's future. When people have access to certain resources, it gives them and

their families and their communities hope. It can affect a whole nation. As believers

and followers of Christ, we must be people of hope."


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On the Road Again: Traveling

Around Kentucky With Our

Coordinators

John Lepper, Coordinator:

Jan 5: Meet with Steve and Annette, CBF Field

Personnel

Jan 7-9: Festival of Preachers, St. Matthews Baptist,

Louisville

Jan. 10: FBC, Corbin, Ordination of Nicole Farrar

Jan. 11: You've Got the Time meeting, Owensboro

Jan. 12: You've Got the Time meeting, Corbin

Jan. 13: Executive Committee Conference Call

Jan. 17: Living Faith, Elizabethtown, 5th

Anniversary

Jan. 19: You've Got the Time meeting, Immanuel,

Frankfort

Jan. 20: KBF leaders and KCC leaders conversation

Jan.21: Christian Education Conference Focus Group, BSK and KBF

Jan. 22: Spring Meeting Planning Meeting

Jan. 24-25: Western Kentucky pastor visits

Jan. 26: You've Got the Time meeting, Burlington

Jan. 31: Celebration for Christian Unity, Lexington

Feb. 4: Latonia Baptist Church, meet with search committee

Feb. 7-10: CBF Leadership Team Meeting, Charlotte, NC

Feb.14: Preach, DeHaven Baptist Church, LaGrange

Feb. 16: Kentucky Council of Churches Visioning Meeting

Feb. 18: Attend Bluegrass Ministers Peer Learning Group

Feb. 19: Spring Meeting Planning Meeting

Feb. 22-25: ChurchWorks Conference, Nashville, TN

Feb. 28: Speak, FBC, Ft. ThomasJoshua Speight, Associate Coordinator for Missions:

Jan. 5: Meet with Steve and Annette, CBF Field Personnel

Jan. 6: Setup for Festival of Preachers, St. Matthew's Baptist, LouisvilleJan. 7-18: Monrovia, Liberia - PassportLiberia (Staff for youth camp with partner

PassportCamps, Inc.)

Jan. 21: Christian Education Conference Focus Group, BSK and KBF

Jan. 22: Spring Meeting Planning Meeting

Jan. 26: You've Got The Time - Burlington, KY


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Feb. 2: GenNext Bible Study Leader, Broadway Baptist, Louisville

Feb. 7: Preaching - Immanuel Baptist, Frankfort, KY

Feb. 13: Tour McCreary County - Woodland Baptist Church

Feb. 15: Owsley County

Feb. 19: Spring Meeting Planning Meeting

Feb. 22-25: ChurchWorks Conference, Nashville, TN

John Lepper and Joshua Speight are available to speak/teach/lead at your church.

Please contact the KBF office at 502-426-1931 for information and availability.

Schedule seen here was up-to-date at the time of delivery.

CALENDAR

February 5-6: "The Secret of Marriage" - A Marriage Enrichment Workshop led by Rev.

Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Host: Broadway Baptist Church

February 22-25: ChurchWorks Conference sponsored by Current - Nashville, TN

March 12-13: Mountain Hope Community Development Meeting/Summer Teams

Introduction - Nada

March 19-20: CBF of North Carolina General Assembly, First Baptist Church, NC

April 11-16: Five-Day Academy for Spiritual Formation: Spirituality and the Modern

Prophet - A Retreat for Clergy and Lay Leadership - Atlanta, GA

April 16-17: CBF of Missouri General Assembly, University Heights Baptist Church,Springfield, MO

April 23-24: 2010 Kentucky Baptist Fellowship Spring Gathering - Stanford Baptist,

Stanford, Kentucky

April 23-24: CBF of Florida Spring Gathering - Location TBD

April 23-24: CBF of Arkansas - Together for Hope Site, Helena, AR

April 23-24: CBF of South Carolina General Assembly - Pelham Road Baptist Church,

Greenville, SC

June 6-12: Footsteps of Faith on the Civil Rights Trail - Sponsored by Alabama CBF

June 23-25: 2010 CBF General Assembly - Charlotte, North Carolina

July 28-August 1: 20th Baptist World Congress - Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu,

Hawai

KENTUCKY BAPTISTFELLOWSHIPEquipping & Empowering.

Cultivating Partnerships.

Engaging in Missions.

Phone: 502-426-1931

Fax: 502-426-1612

Office email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.kybf.org/

KBF STAFF

Coordinator: John [email protected]

Associate Coordinator for Missions: Joshua [email protected]

Administrative Assistant: Valarie Shoulta [email protected]

KBF COORDINATING COUNCIL

Coordinating Council Officers:

Moderator: Linda Caldwell, Elizabethtown (Laity)

Past Moderator: Robert Davis, Louisville (Laity)

Moderator Elect: Don Rogers, Louisville (Clergy)


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Secretary: Mary Edinger, Middlesboro (Laity)

Treasurer: Susanne Jenkens, Louisville (Clergy)

Term Expiring in 2010:

Robert Davis, Louisville (Laity)

Susanne Jenkens, Louisville (Clergy)

Margaret Barlow, Louisville (Laity)

Kitty Baird, Danville (Laity)

Nancy Fields, Covington (Laity)

Patsey Jacobs, Lexington (Clergy)

Iraline Craig, Midway (Laity)


Bob Coons, Owensboro (Clergy)

Jane Brake, Frankfort (Laity)

Renee Purtlebaugh, Louisville (Clergy)

Don Rogers, Louisville (Clergy)

Amanda Phelps Taylor, Morgantown (Clergy)

Don McFadden, Winchester (Laity)

Kristen Hope Grubb, Louisville (Laity)


Dwight Lovan, Owensboro (Laity)

Clarice Johnson, Owensboro (Laity)

Laura Albovias, Louisville (Laity)

Susan Reed, Louisville (Clergy)David Wells, Shepherdsville (Clergy)

Tim Doremus, Mt. Washington (Clergy)

David Honeycutt, Williamsburg (Laity)

Mary Edinger, Middlesboro (Laity)


Nibby Priest, Henderson (Laity)

Richard Mason, Owensboro (Laity)

Bill Thomas, Madisonville (Clergy)

Jeff Stone, Georgetown (Laity)Larry S. Curtis, Winchester (Laity)

Carole Cook, Elizabethtown (Laity)

Tara Edwards, Horse Cave (Clergy)

Adam Schell, Carlisle (Clergy)

Beth Parker, Middlesboro (Clergy)


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Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Coordinating Council:

Barry Birdwhistell, Elizabethtown (Laity)

Jeremy Colliver, Georgetown (Clergy)

Lynn Smith, Covington (Clergy)

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