BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (BP) – Kentucky Baptists explored the theme “Each Church on Mission” on the group’s 185thannual assembly Nov. 14-15 at First Baptist Church.
Outgoing president Harold Greatest, the pastor of Burlington Baptist Church, has watched Kentucky Baptists do lots of dwelling on mission throughout a tumultuous 12 months with pure disasters in western Kentucky and japanese Kentucky about 9 months aside and the battle for the unborn following the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
“It’s been a busy 12 months however we’ve actually seen God at work,” Greatest stated. “It’s been the dignity of a lifetime to function KBC president. I’m not ample for the duty however God is greater than ample. I need to present appreciation to my church, Burlington Baptist Church, to permit me to serve. It’s such a blessing to work with KBC leaders and employees with Dr. Todd (Grey) steering the boat. I really like our campus ministries. KBC employees is one of the best. I hope that.”
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Attendance numbered 1,004, with 790 messengers and 214 company. Newly elected officers embrace President James Carroll, pastor of Parkway Baptist Church in Bardstown; First Vice President Bob Ehr, pastor of First Baptist Church in Lawrenceburg; and Second Vice President Brad Walker, pastor of Briensburg Baptist Church in Marshall County.
Messengers accepted a Cooperative Program finances of $23,778,670, a slight improve from final 12 months. The KBC allocates half of the funds to the Southern Baptist Conference for worldwide missions, catastrophe aid, seminaries and different important ministries.
Eleven new church buildings have been added to the KBC on the assembly, and several other church buildings and people have been acknowledged with awards.
Learn extra in regards to the KBC annual assembly right here, right here and right here.
S.C. BAPTISTS ADOPT SATF RECOMMENDATIONS, ELECT COLUMBIA PASTOR
By Todd Deaton, Managing Editor, The Baptist Courier (South Carolina)
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With “Wake Up!” as their theme, messengers to the annual assembly of the South Carolina Baptist Conference accepted a report from their Sexual Abuse Process Pressure, honored their retiring government, and elected a Columbia pastor as president-elect.
Gathering at Riverland Hills Baptist Church in Irmo, S.C., Nov. 14-15, the 703 registered messengers additionally adopted a $26.5 million finances and accepted eight resolutions. President Wayne Bray, pastor of First Baptist Church of Simpsonville/Upstate Church, presided over the classes.
Willie McLaurin, interim president of the Govt Committee of the Southern Baptist Conference, kicked off the assembly by difficult South Carolina Baptists to maneuver “outdoors these partitions” and embrace the church’s calling to “take the gospel to the nations and the neighborhoods.”
Observing that from Acts 1 to Acts 28 the church is witnessing, McLaurin stated, “They understood the ability of what it meant to get outdoors the partitions of the church.” He stated, “Each church and each believer is known as, commanded and commissioned to maneuver past the partitions of the church.”
SEXUAL ABUSE TASK FORCE
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D.J. Horton, chairman of the state Sexual Abuse Process Pressure, instructed messengers, “Our dedication to the Phrase and to the gospel means we have to emulate our Savior. Our Savior liked the weak. It is a topic about defending the weak.”
Noting that many within the room carried the title of pastor, which comes from a Latin phrase for “shepherd,” Horton, pastor of Church on the Mill in Moore, stated the duty pressure wished each shepherd, each ministry chief, to ask, “What can my church do extra faithfully to guard each little one, each sister within the Lord, and each individual with a particular want?”
The nine-member activity pressure advisable making a conference employees place for somebody educated in trauma-informed care who would supply help, equip, and be a degree of contact for pastors and church buildings in coping with suspected or witnessed abuse. They proposed a broader definition of sexual abuse and challenged pastors, church buildings, associations and the state conference to additional useful resource the dealing with and prevention of sexual abuse.
The duty pressure additionally requested a decision calling for strengthening and clarifying legal guidelines that take away any authorized boundaries which stop pastors or church buildings from disclosing sure data relating to sexual abuse to future employers.
The report included some greatest practices for prevention, monitoring and response of church buildings to sexual abuse, and a listing of extra useful resource supplies.
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Messengers accepted the duty pressure staying in place till subsequent 12 months’s annual assembly to observe and help within the implementation of the SCBC’s response. Kathy Robinson, technique director at First Baptist Church, Simpsonville/Upstate Church, was named co-chair.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Wes Church, pastor of First Baptist Church of Columbia, was elected by unanimous consent as president-elect of the state conference. He was nominated by Tim Williams, pastor of Roebuck Baptist Church, the place Church had attended previous to accepting a name into the ministry. Church is a graduate of the College of South Carolina and Liberty College.
In nominating Church, Williams highlighted his nice coronary heart for the Lord, for God’s Phrase, and for the church, missions, evangelism, and discipleship. “Wes is a godly man, an incredible chief. But one of many issues that stands out to me is his humility,” Williams stated. “I can say with confidence that if we elect Wes Church, … we can be doing an ideal service to our church buildings and to our conference.”
Additionally elected by acclamation to function officers have been Ryan Goodroe, pastor of Utica Baptist Church, as vice chairman; and Brian Sherwood, pastor of First Baptist Church of Darlington, as registration secretary.
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Albert Allen, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Newberry, will preside at subsequent 12 months’s annual assembly, which can be held at Shandon Baptist Church in Columbia, Nov. 13-14.
EXECUTIVE’S FINAL REPORT
In his final handle as South Carolina Baptists’ government director-treasurer, Gary Hollingsworth urged them to consider why the mission issues.
Hollingsworth recommended three foremost causes: 1) as a result of misplaced individuals will spend eternity separated from God in hell; 2) as a result of the gospel continues to be Good Information; and three) as a result of the church continues to be God’s plan for fulfilling the Nice Fee.
“We are able to give attention to, we will fret over the challenges, … or we will embrace these alternatives for brand new, contemporary and artistic methods to share the hope of the gospel,” he stated. “Excellent news brings hope, and folks want hope now greater than ever,” he added, in urging God’s individuals to proceed to blaze new trails for the gospel.
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Throughout Monday night’s session, Hollingsworth was acknowledged with a number of resolutions of appreciation from Southern Baptist and South Carolina Baptist leaders and the state Senate. He additionally was introduced the E.A. McDowell Award, recognizing particular person service in politics, authorities and group affairs, by the SCBC’s Christian Life and Public Affairs Committee.
CP BUDGET
Messengers accepted a Cooperative Program finances of $26.5 million for 2023. The finances doesn’t mirror a rise from the previous 12 months.
Of the full, the finances designates 25.16 p.c, or $6,669,545, for worldwide missions; 20.34 p.c, or $5,387,955, for nationwide missions, and 54.5 p.c, or $14,442,500, for in-state missions and ministry companions.
Along with the 2 resolutions proposed by the Sexual Abuse Process Pressure and expressing appreciation for his or her retiring government director’s service and to the host church, messengers adopted resolutions on:
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• Celebrating the a hundredth anniversary of Baptist Campus Ministries in South Carolina.
• Supporting Christian Larger Schooling and its three Baptist universities — Anderson, Charleston Southern and North Greenville.
• Rejecting using most well-liked gender pronouns.
• Encouraging passing legal guidelines to guard minors by prohibiting transgender surgical procedure, puberty blockers, and cross-hormone therapies.
(Full textual content of the resolutions could also be discovered on-line at www.baptistcourier.com.)
Now that the ink has dried and his signing with Kentucky has been made official, Jasper Johnson was finally able to be formally introduced to the Rupp Arena crowd during the Wildcats’ 87-68 win over Western Kentucky on Tuesday night.
Johnson, a class of 2025 five-star point guard born and raised in Lexington, sat courtside with his family to check out his future team in action against the Hilltoppers. During the second half, former Kentucky player Ravi Moss brought out the future Wildcat to midcourt where he was met with a chorus of cheers from the packed crowd of Big Blue Nationites.
After initially committing to Kentucky back in September, Johnson signed the necessary papers to play his college basketball at UK earlier this month. He’s been inside Rupp Arena plenty of times before over the years (and even played here with Woodford County as a sophomore), but never while wearing street clothes as the center of attention in front of over 20,000 screaming fans.
The smile says all you need to know.
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Johnson is one of three signees from Mark Pope‘s first recruiting class as Kentucky’s head coach, joining four-star center Malachi Moreno and four-star point guard Acaden Lewis. The 6-foot-4 guard is ranked No. 14 overall in the nation by the On3 Industry Ranking. He’s currently finishing up his high school career at Overtime Elite as a member of Rod Wave Elite (RWE).
Alongside Tay Kinney, a talented class of 2026 guard who is also from Kentucky and is being recruited by Pope, the two Bluegrass natives form arguably the deadliest backcourt duo in all of OTE. Through five games played this season, Johnson is averaging 19.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 5.4 assists per outing while shooting 47.9 percent from the floor and 42.9 percent from deep.
This time next year, we’ll hopefully see him do the same thing in Kentucky blue and white.
Johnson family – Dr. Michael Huang, Kentucky Sports Radio
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clara Strack scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Teonni Key had 16 points and 13 rebounds and No. 14 Kentucky defeated Arizona State 77-61 on Tuesday in the Music City Classic to remain unbeaten.
Kentucky nearly had four players with double-doubles as Georgia Amoore added 20 points and nine rebounds and Amelia Hassett had eight points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (6-0), who shot 42% and scored 13 points off 14 Arizona State turnovers.
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Jalyn Brown scored 16 points and Nevaeh Parkinson added 12 points and nine rebounds for the Sun Devils (3-3). Arizona State shot just 30%.
The Sun Devils cut a 19-point deficit to 11 after three quarters but a 6-0 burst with baskets by Key, Amoore and Strack built the lead back to 15 midway through the fourth.
Kentucky led 42-23 at halftime after outscoring the Sun Devils 27-9 in the second quarter, scoring the first 13 points of the period with Struck putting in the final seven in the run. A couple ASU free throws later, the Wildcats went on an 11-2 run capped by a Hassett 3 and the lead was 20. Strack scored 14 points and Key 10 in the half.
The teams continue play in the Music City Classic on Wednesday with Kentucky playing No. 19 Illinois and Arizona State facing South Dakota.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rivalry week has finally arrived. The Louisville and Kentucky football program are set to do battle once again, facing off in Lexington for the annual Battle for the Governor’s Cup.
Here are the depth charts for both the Cardinals and Wildcats:
Changes from Louisville’s Depth Chart vs. Pitt:
Quarterback
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9 Tyler Shough (6-5, 230, Gr.) 10 Pierce Clarkson (6-1, 190, R-Fr.) OR 15 Harrison Bailey (6-5, 230, R-Sr.) OR 12 Brady Allen (6-6, 220, R-So)
Running Back
25 Isaac Brown (5-9, 190, Fr.) 21 Donald Chaney Jr. (5-10, 210, R-Jr.) 26 Duke Watson (6-0, 180, Fr.) 22 Keyjuan Brown (5-10, 210, R-Fr.)
Wide Receiver
0 Chris Bell (6-2, 220, Jr.) 81 Cataurus Hicks (5-10, 180, R-Fr.)
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