Summer 2013 KBF Newsletter

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Summer 2013 Highlights

Tuesday, November 5 7:30 PM -- An Evening with CBF and Suzii PaynterThird Baptist Church, Owensboro

Wednesday, November 6 Noon- Lunch with CBF and Suzii PaynterSt. Matthews Baptist Church, Louisville

Wednesday, November 6 - An Evening with CBF and Suzii PaynterBroadway Baptist Church, Louisville, 5:00PM - 7:00PM

Thursday, November 7 Noon- Lunch with CBF and Suzii PaynterCalvary Baptist Church, Lexington

Thursday, November 7 through Friday, November 8 -

KBF/CBFCurrent Retreat with Suzii Paynter, Faith Baptist Church, Georgetown

Sunday, November 10 - Sunday Morning with CBF and Suzii PaynterHighland Baptist Church, Louisville, 8:30AM - 12:30PM

Why you need to attend a Suzii Paynter Tour meeting?

You need to get to know Suzii. A fresh wind of the spirit is blowing throughCooperative Baptist Fellowship. With the adoption of the 2012 task force report,significant changes have been made and continue to be made in CBF. As thethird Executive Coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Suzii comesto this position with responsibility of implementing the vision outlined in the2012 report. Additionally, she brings her own unique personality, gifts and vi-sion to this role. Attend one of the Suzii meetings and discover Suziis vision forour common future.

Suzii needs to get to know you. Suzii is no stranger to Kentucky. She livedhere during the years her husband, Roger, was a student at Southern BaptistTheological Seminary. But that was a different daya time that pre-dated Ken-tucky Baptist Fellowship and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Suzii has a goodunderstanding of CBF and needs to grow in her awareness of the unique contri-bution KBF makes to this movement. Attend one of the Suzii meetings and helpSuzii get a picture of you, your church, and our common future together through

KBF and CBF.

2013 CBF/KBF

Current Retreatfeaturing Suzii Paynter,

CBF Executive Coordinator

November 7-8, 2013

Faith Baptist Church,

Georgetown, KY

A retreat for young Baptist ministers,

leaders, and divinity students who

seek to connect with other young

Baptists through the CooperativeBaptist Fellowship/Kentucky Baptist

Fellowship. The retreat will begin

at 3:00PM Thursday and end with

lunch on Friday.

Registration Fee: $30 ($15 for

Seminary students) Includes dinner

Thursday and lunch Friday. Online

registration available soon at www.

kybf.org/2013-kbfcbf-current-re-

treat/

Fairfield Inn & Suites

200 Tiger Way, Georgetown, KY

40324; 502-868-9955

Hotel Group Code: KBF

Hampton Inn

128 Darby Drive, Georgetown, KY

40324; 502-867-4888

Hotel Group Code: KBF


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CBF Field Personnel for Eastern Kentucky (Paula Settle)

2013 was another busy summer as eleven churches with some 280+ volunteerscame to serve in Nada and/or Booneville. We had our first Catholic group fromMorris, Illinois, and our largest group was FBC Jasper, Georgia, with 80 members.The states represented were Kentucky, Illinois, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginiaand Georgia.

Volunteers assisted with numerous repairs, a VBS at Lerose Baptist Church inBooneville, a Backyard Bible Club in Nada, a High School Graduation Celebra-tion event, and a college visit to the University of Kentucky. Over twenty OwsleyCounty High School students had four days of fun and instruction with the Provi-dence Baptist Church group from Charlotte, North Carolina.

The big project of the summer was adding on two new bedrooms and a bath for afamily who is adopting three children. Work was done on this project by FBC Jas-per, Georgia; FBC Augusta, GA; Ball Camp Baptist Church, Knoxville, TN; Cal-vary Baptist Church, Ashville, TN; and Providence Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC.

Baby gifts were brought by three churches since we have seven new babies who have arrived or will be arriving in the

Nada community by mid-November. Three more churches from Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, will be comingin the fall to complete some projects and provide ministries to the women and children. Three churches provided schoolbackpacks for Nada and selected Owsley County High School students.

Owsley County (Kristin Belcher and Chris Liles)

Emma Quire Mission Center, Owsley County, KY

By Kristin Belcher

First Baptist Church Frankfort spent a few days at the Emma QuireMission Center in Owsley County in early July. The focus was oneducation and missions. Backpacks were packed with school supplies

for 16 different children in the Owsley County and Nada communities.The group watched Beyond the Poverty: Challenges and promise inone of the nations poorest counties, a series of videos, produced byDon Weber at cn2 network. These videos helped inform the group onthe education systems and commerce of Owsley County. FBC Frank-fort left Owsley County with prayers of hope and a sense of challengeto do what we can to make the world better for all people.

By Chris Liles

July 11th through 13th, the youth from Broadway Baptist Church, inLouisville, took a trip to Owsley County for a mission retreat. The theme

of which was learning to look for and see God in everyone around us. Toput these learnings into practice, the youth spent time working at EastsideApartments, a retirement community in Booneville. While there, the youthplayed Bingo with residents, helped wash windows, weeded several gar-dens, and helped clean-up trash and landscaping. They were also invited toa delicious potluck luncheon and poetry recitation, hosted by the residents.

KBF Partnership Update

Attention all Louisville Insight Cable/Time Warner Members:Insight Cable customers will soon be converting their service to Time Warner and this will necessitate an email address change.

If you are one of those people whose service is changing, we will need to know your new email address in order to stay in digital

communication with you. Please contact our office at 502-426-1931 or [email protected] with your updated email address.


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CBF Field Personnel for Karen Population in Louisville

(Steve Clark & Annette Ellard)

In our ministry among refugees from Burma, some things slow down in the summerwhile others speed up. And this summer was filled with usual things like gradu-ations, CBF meetings, and summer camps as well as the usual varied demands ofhelping folks working to rebuild their lives in America. No sooner had we attendedthe graduations of more than a dozen students (including four from our own Hope

Academy), we were accompanyingthem to college orientations, help-ing gather documents for finalizingfinancial aid, and waiting togetherin line to register for classes andhopefully get everyone classes withat least one of their friends!

This fall, in addition to our continu-ing work with high school students, we hope to start weekly tutoring andenrichment opportunities for our college students. And were looking tomatch each with an American grandma or grandpa for encouragement

throughout the school year. If you are interested in participating in any ofthese activities, or if you have skills in art, piano or counseling to share,please contact us at [email protected] or (502) 500-1172.

McCreary County

KBF built its eighth Extreme Build home this June for the Barnett family. OnThursday, June 6th during the Pre-Build portion of the build, KBF welcomeddignitaries from Extreme Build partners Kentucky Highlands Investment Cor-poration, McCreary County Housing Development Corporation, and the USDARural Development. Also present were representatives from Senator MitchMcConnells office, Senator Rand Pauls office, McCreary County Judge Execu-tive Doug Stephens, and Shannon Ricketts with Kentucky Congressman Hal

Rogers. USDA Rural Development State Director for Kentucky Tom Fern gavea short speech and congratulated KBF volunteers for their continued service tothe community. He presented Leah Norvell of KHIC with a certificate of ap-preciation for their ongoing partnership. He also presented Josh Speight of KBFwith a certificate of appreciation for their ongoing partnership (pictured at right).

Partnership Trip To Morocco

Kentucky Baptist Fellowship, Kentucky Baptist Women In Ministry, and The Eglise Evangelique au Maroc will partnertogether in October to lead the first multicultural womens experience for Kentuckians and Africans in Morocco. Lead byKaren Thomas Smith and Becky Caswell-Speight, this trip seeks to build relationships between women of the EEAM andwomen of the KBWIM. The group from Kentucky will travel (caravan) across the country of Morocco with women ofthe EEAM developing partnership, discovering ways to work together, and encouraging each other in their own culturesand contexts. The Caravan will pass through eight cities in Morocco where participants will meet EEAM women anddiscover womens initiatives there. Highlights include dialogue with Muslim women in Ifrane, meeting the EEAMs Pas-tor-in-Training - Miora Andriatsimalia in Agadir, and connecting with migrant women in Rabat. Please be in prayer for thegroup listed below as we prepare to travel in October: Paula Dempsey - Mars Hill Baptist, NC (representing Alliance ofBaptists); Becky Caswell-Speight - Broadway Baptist, Louisville and KYBWIM; Reba Cobb - Broadway Baptist, Louis-ville; Susanne Jenkens - Woodland Baptist, Louisville; Kristin Belcher - FBC, Frankfort and KBF; Felicia von HellensBiggerstaff- Georgetown Baptist, Georgetown; Sierra von Hellens - Georgetown Baptist,Georgetown; Donna Whitehouse - Georgetown Baptist, Georgetown; Martha Robertson- Lexington Avenue Baptist, Danville; Sharon Price- Lexington Avenue Baptist, Danville;Keith Stillwell - Lexington Avenue Baptist, Danville; Callie Minks - Lexington AvenueBaptist, Danville; Josh Speight - Broadway Baptist, Louisville and KBF.

KBF Partnership Update


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Passport Camps brings M2

Experience to LouisvilleKBF partner Passport Camps held three weeks of camp at Broadway Baptist Church inLouisville this June. The Missions2 camp experience devotes the most time to hands onmissions service in its schedule in more urban environments. Over 300 youth participatedserving more than 15 Louisville agencies. Passport M2 will be back in Louisville in 2014.

Numerous KBF congregations attended Passport camps across the country. Here aresome group pictures from their time at camp.

Broadway Baptist Youth

Broadway Baptist Kids

Crescent Hill Kids

Crescent Hill Youth

Buechel Park Baptist Youth

Calvary Youth

Lexington Avenue Baptist Kids

Highland Youth

FBC Middlesboro Youth

FBC Frankfort Kids

FBC Frankfort Youth

Ridgewood YouthFBC Corbin Kids

Living Faith Youth


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Moderators Closing Words At CBF

General Assembly, Greensboro

By Keith HerronLast year in Fort Worth, we approved the 2012 Task Force Report Inapproving that report, you authorized the Coordinating Council to moveforward in developing a plan that would implement those recommended

changes.We celebrated the ministry of our retiring Executive Coordinator and gavethanks to God for Daniel Vestal as our leader for the past 15 years!We watched with anticipation the work of the Executive CoordinatorSearch Com mittee and waited patiently for the announcement of the newsof our new leader. We have celebrated our good fortune and are grateful toGod for Suzii Paynter and look forward to working closely with her.Over a period of a few months, we received the news of several unexpectedresignations of senior leadership personnel, each moving in new directions,

none of whom were forced out or asked to leave = it was a sign that he hadhigh-quality leaders and those outside the Fellowship saw the wisdom inhiring them.We created an Implementation Team and asked them to flesh out thatreport and to create an identified path for us to follow they have reportedtheir progress several times to the Coordinating Council and have asked &received the approval of their recommendations as that work progressed now those motions have been presented to you.The Coordinating Council approved a plan that asked the state/regionalcoordinators to act as an Interim Nominating Committee to provide leader-

ship in populating the Governing Board, the Missions/Ministries Councils,and the Nominating Committee all groups newly formed, all needing tobe named in this first year.The Coordinating Council approved the decision to relocate our offices toa new location in Decatur, GA a new organization, a new leader, a newglimpse of ministry its a custom space that fits our organization, to helpit achieve its purposes.And so we accept the challenge of the day as we journey together with Godand with one another. To that good day we turn together working for thegood of Gods kingdom.

General Assembly,

Transition Reflections

by John Lepper

Cooperative BaptistFellowship experiencedsignificant changes

in the past year. TheCBF General Assemblyheld in Greensboro,

NC a few weeks ago, focused on movingforward with the recommendations of the2012 Task Force Report.

The 2012 Task Force report set in motionsome significant changes. Previously, thecoordinating council was a representa-tive body made up of 64 members. Thesepeople were sent from states and regions

and served as the governing body of CBF.Now we have four smaller, more efficientgroups to lead and guide the Fellowship.These are: the Governing Council, theMinistries Council, the Missions Counciland The Nominating Committee.

During the business sessions in Greens-boro, the body heard motions that amendthe Constitution and Bylaws in waysthat create and implement these changes.Recommendations were also received and

acted on for persons who will serve on thefour new bodies. We took the steps neces-sary to put the 2012 recommendations intoaction.

In the Moderators report, Keith Herronoffered what he called a punch list of allweve done this past year. This punchlist (printed at right) captures the essenceof the transition we witnessed at thisyears CBF General Assembly inGreensboro.

calendarSeptember 15-18: Together For Hope Council Meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona

October 3-14: KBF/EEAM Partnership Trip Experience, Caravan of Empowerment: Encouraging Womens Ministries

October 24-25: Kentucky Council of Churches General Assembly

November 5-7: Suzii Paynter Kentucky Church Tour

November 7-8: KBF Current Retreat of Young Baptist Leaders, Georgetown, special guest Suzii Paynter

January 2-5: Festival of Preachers, Indianapolis, Indiana

March 1: KBF Winter Coordinating Council Meeting, 10:00am 2:00pm

April 25-26: KBF Spring Gathering with Suzii Paynter, Broadway Baptist Church, Louisville


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KBF Coordinatorohn Lepper - [email protected]

KBF Associate Coordinator for MissionsJosh Speight - [email protected]

KBF Administrative AssistantKristin Belcher - [email protected]

P.O. Box 7098, Louisville, KY 40257

KENTUCKY BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP 4000 Brownsboro Road, Louisville, KY 40207 www.kybf.org

Asset Map

The goal of the Asset Map has been to highlight Gods

work through churches by identifying the passions, abili-

ties, and gifts of Gods people. We have asked simple ques-tions like How is God moving among your congregation?

which has allowed us to begin to see through renewed

vision that God has. This transformative process to recog-

nize Gods good gifts began just a few years ago with the

launch of the Missions Asset Map, but that work is far from

finished. Through my time as the Summer Missions In-

tern, my goal has been to compile the information we have

collected over the past few years, collect new information

from churches to expand the asset base we already have,

and to present the information in a very useable way to

allow the continued growth of the map. One of the primary

goals is sustainability. I have seen that the Asset Map is likea living creature: it constantly moves and changes. It serves

as a reflection of the work of the Holy Spirit flowing as it

will through the hands, feet, and mouths of Gods servants.

It has become clear to me that the work of the Asset Map

never ends, thanks be to God, because Gods work never

ends. I am hopeful for the continued growth of the map as

the KBF and our partners continue to grow in the grace of

Christ and be transformed to see Gods work in new ways.

Reflections from our Summer Missions Intern, Phillip Davis

Extreme Build

Though it was my first build of its kind

working at Extreme Build this sum-

mer, it is so clear to see the Miracle ofPartnerships that God works through

the people that participated. Each year

Extreme Build serves as an example of

Gods call for people to invest in some-

thing greater than themselves, to bring

together meager resources and a passionate heart, and to let

Gods grace multiply it into something truly amazing. As an

ongoing ministry, it was inspiring to see the kind of contin-

ued impact Extreme Build and our partners have had in the

community. Although the goal of building a physical house

is clearly one of the primary reasons for embarking on such

a project, it is the relationships that are built that create thelasting bonds that people speak of when recalling the work

God did through Extreme Build. This years build marked

the eighth successful year of the project not only because

another family received a home that will allow them to pur-

sue Gods calling in their lives, but because another family

has joined our family in the KBF and new relationships

have formed and strengthened with our brothers and sisters

in McCreary County.

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