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KBF CoordinatorJohn Lepper - jlepper@kybf.org

KBF Associate Coordinator for MissionsJosh Speight - josh@kybf.org

KBF Administrative AssistantValarie Shoulta - valarie@kybf.org

P.O. Box 7098, Louisville, KY 40257

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

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Spring 2013 IssueJoin Us as Rhonda AbbottBlevins, KBF’s firstAssociate Coordinator ofMissions, challenges us to replace feelingsof inadequacy with faith, and live more fully into our unique calling as Christians.

Friday Worship, April 26, 7:45 PM: “A Basket Full of Not Enough” from John 6:1-21When we trust God to be the fire in our faithful-ness, a basket full of not enough becomes more than enough to do what God has called us to do.

Saturday Worship, April 27, 11:30 AM: “Talent” from Matthew 25:14-30 Everybody has a calling. Our job is to get about the business of doing it. It’s about living out of our passion. When we do that, we get the sense that we are exactly where we are supposed to be, doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing.

Rhonda Abbott Blevins serves as associate pastor at the Tellico Village Community Church in Loudon, Tennessee, an ecumenical congregation inthe center of a planned retirement community. Previously she served as the Associate Coordinator for Missions with the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship and as a campus minister at the University of Georgia. Rhonda is pursuing a doctor of ministry degree from the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University. She is married to Terry and they have a five-year-old son, Jake.

BSK Banquet InfoPlease join us for BaptistSeminary of Kentucky’s

Annual Banquet during theKBF Spring Gathering, Third

Baptist Church, Owensboro, Fri-day, April 26, 2013, 5:30pm.

Cost:$15 person, $10 student

Reservations required.Reserve your place today!

Call the BSK office:502-863-8300

register online at www.bsky.org email glenda.simpson@bsky.org

Spring Gathering ScheduleFriday, April 2611:30 am - 1:00 pm Pastor’s Luncheon with Jim Dant1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Leadership Conference with Jim Dant4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Resource Fair Open4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Experience Morocco5:00 pm KBF Coordinating Council Meeting5:30 pm - 6:45 pm Baptist Seminary of Kentucky Banquet7:00 pm - 7:30 pm KBF Business Session7:45 pm Worship9:00 pm Fellowship Time 9:15 pm KBF After Party (Restaurant TBA)

Saturday, April 278:30 am - 9:00 am Coffee and refreshments9:00 am - 10:00 am Breakout Sessions 110:15 am - 11:15 am Breakout Sessions 211:30 am - 12:30 pm Worship1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch and orientation for new KBF Coordinating Council members

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Experience MoroccoCome experience Morocco! Kentucky Baptist Fellowship and nine partnering congregations have made an investment to walk with our Christian broth-ers and sisters in the Protestant Church in Morocco (Eglise Evangelique au Maroc – EEAM), and this experiential opportunity will give you a flavor of their culture. On Friday evening and Saturday morning, KBF will transform part of Third Baptist into a Moroc-can medina where culture and shopping collide. Ad-ditionally the frontier/woods in Oujda will be brought to life where sub-Saharan African refugees struggle everyday. The Morocco experience is a unique expres-sion as you will be encouraged to visit at your own pace, but it is also a chance to witness the plight and recognize the need of our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters from sub-Saharan African countries strug-gling to survive in Morocco. Come to Owensboro and visit Morocco!

Engagement in Missions: Understandingand Utilizing KBF’s Missions Asset Map The KBF Missions Asset Map, launched in August 2012, is a tool that helps us tell the KBF narrative more succinctly. The asset map highlights the coopera-tive impact of the KBF. A panel discussion will be led by KBF partners who helped to shape the Missions Asset Map and give insight for how your congregation may use it in the future. Come and learn how ourlocal, state and global mission partnerships areengaging us all for the cause of Christ.

Sharing Your Story: With Whom inScripture Do You Share Your Story? Led by Kentucky Baptist Women In Ministry, this interactive breakout will ask participants to choose characters from scripture they most identify with in their life. The group will work together to reflect on how scripture and life intersect. The breakout is part of a larger effort in partnership between KYBWIM and the women of the EEAM in Morocco. A Bible study based on personal experiences with scripture will be developed in Kentucky and Morocco for us during the October partnership KBF-Morocco experience.

Engagement with CBF Field Personnel Through Mission CommunitiesEngage with God’s Heart and Your Passion alongside CBF Field Personnel and others in a Mission Com-munity. Learn about the eight CBF Mission Communi-ties and how you can live out your passion and touch others with the heart of God in sustainable, holistic missions. The Mission Communities are: Poverty and Transformation, Internationals, Healthcare Ministries, Economic Development, Church Planting and Faith Sharing, Disaster Response, Justice and Peacemaking and Education.

Intentionality and WorshipSeveral worship leaders will discuss ideas andresources for planning worship with intentionality. Moving beyond worship planning that focuses onstyle and form, this workshop will center on ideasand resources that are concerned with substance, movement and flow.

Worship as MissionA panel discussion about assessing the needs of your community and planning worship accordingly. Panel-ists from local congregations will speak on the chal-lenges of providing sacred space (physical, emotional, and spiritual) for worship for the entire community.

Missions In The Community:Unexpected Experiences Local missions is at that heart of how our KBF con-gregations engage the world. Come listen to this panel discussion of congregational leaders from Western Kentucky talk about their missional partnerships and the unexpected experiences they create.

Festival of PreachersAs we look toward the 21st century in the church, come hear the voice of our next generation of preach-ers. This session will feature sermons and/or testimo-nies from young preachers as well as a conversation with founder and president of the Academy of Preach-es, Dr. Dwight Moody, about what the Academy has accomplished and where it is headed in the future.

Spring Gathering Breakouts

KBF Missions Offeringat Spring GatheringKentucky Baptist Fellowship will receive two offerings this year in Ow-ensboro for our mission partnerships. A monetary offering will be re-ceived during both worship services which will benefit KBF’s Mountain Hope engagement (KBF’s rural poverty initiatives in McCreary, Owsley and Powell Counties).

NEW THIS YEAR Kentucky Baptist Fellowship will receive a tangible offering of school supplies! KBF asks all participants to bring any of the items listed to Owensboro. Third Baptist will use the donated items for their ongoing ministry to The Colony Mobile Home Park, a low income neighborhood the church began a partnership with seven months ago.

SCHOOL SUPPLIES NEEDED: notebook paper, pencils, pens, back-packs, school glue, kleenex, rulers, calculators, markers (washable), crayons, and scissors.

Hotel InfoThe KBF Spring Gathering is April 26-27 at Third Baptist Church in Owensboro. It is never too early to make a reservation. For your convenience, KBF has set up rooms blocks in three hotels. The rooms are avail-able by request under the name “Kentucky Baptist Fellowship.” Rooms are available until March 26 at a reduced rate at the fol-lowing hotels:

The Sleep Inn51 Bon Harbor Hills

Owensboro, KY 42301(270) 691-6200

$75.00 + tax

Fairfield Inn800 Salem Drive

Owensboro, KY 42303(270) 688-8887

$99.00 + tax

Super 81027 Goetz Drive

Owensboro, KY 42301(270) 536-0519

$69.95 + tax

Pastor’sLuncheonFriday, April 26, 11:30 am - 1 pm

Creating a Path: Lessons from a Self-Taught Gardener

Led by Jim Dant, writer, confer-ence speaker, church consultant, and partner at Faithlab.

Pastors who attend the pastor’s luncheon will receive the book,The Truth is Sensational Enough, written by Jim Dant.

Leadership WorkshopFriday, April 26; 1:30 to 4:00 PMFor congregational leaders--laity and clergy

“Natural Paths: Laying Down our Ministerial Machetes and Methods,” Led by Jim Dant, writer, conference speaker, church consultant and partner at Faithlab.

Jim will help those who attend take a look at the Philippian church and the leadership style that allowed that church to be planted and ex-perience growth. Participants will consider the “natural paths” that church life/congregations could take IF leaders relinquished the need to tightly control methods and outcomes. Suchleaders could help congregations have thefreedom to BE who they are.

The workshop will have two sessions with a break:Session One: Memory Lane (Philippians 1 & 2)

Session Two: The HOV Lane (Philippians 3 & 4)

Those who pre-register for this workshop will receive two books writ-ten by Jim Dant: How Does the Church Decide and One Pastor, Twelve Steps: Preaching My Way Through the Valley of the Shadow of Addiction.

$15 per person ($10 if pre-registered by April 15), $25 per church gor groups of three or more. BSK students are free. Register online or email office@kybf.org.

2013 KBF/EEAM Partnership Experience:“Fellowship Without Borders: Caravan for Women”

Kentucky Baptist Fellowship, Kentucky Baptist Women In Ministry, and The Eglise Evangelique au Maroc will partner together in October to lead the first multicultural women’s experience for Kentuckians and Africans in Morocco. Lead by Karen Thomas Smith and Becky Caswell-Speight, this trip seeks to build relationships between women of the EEAM and women of the KYBWIM. The group from Kentucky will travel (cara-van) across the country of Morocco with women of the EEAM develop-ing partnership, discovering ways to work together, and encouraging each other in their own cultures and contexts. Highlights for the trip include worship in Casablanca, Bible study in Fez, dialog with Moroccan Mus-lims, and worship with migrants/refugees in Rabat.

Contact Josh Speight (josh@kybf.org) or Becky Caswell-Speight (Becky@broadwaybaptist.org) for more info. Tentative Travel Dates: October 3-14, 2013. Estimated Cost: $2100.

Kentucky Congregations Participate In BWIM’s Martha Stearns Marshall Month of PreachingBroadway Baptist Church (Louisville): Molly ShoultaCrescent Hill Baptist Church (Louisville): Brittany BairFirst Baptist Church (Frankfort): Rev. Cynthia InskoLexington Avenue Baptist Church (Danville): Rev. Amber Inscore EssickBuechel Park Baptist Church (Louisville): Brittany Stillwell KrebsMidway Baptist Church (Midway) - Rev. Katherine Swope RedmondFaith Baptist Church (Georgetown) - Alix DavidsonHighland Baptist Church (Louisville) - Rev. Emily Hull McGeeCalvary Baptist Church (Lexington) - Dr. Lydia Hoyle

calendarMarch 2: KBF Coordinating Council Meeting, MidwayBaptist, Midway

March 4: BSK Glenn Hinson Lectures, 10 am - 3:45 pm, Georgetown College; Register now: http://www.kybf.org/news/2013/1/25/2013-hinson-lectures

April 12-14: KBF YouthMissions Weekend, Georgetown College; $85/participant; Register your church now:http://www.kybf.org/youth-mission-weekend/

April 26-27: KBF Spring Gath-ering, Third Baptist, Owensboro

June 9-15: Extreme Build 8,McCreary County

June 9-14: PassportMissions2, Broadway Baptist Church,Louisville

June 16-21: PassportMissions2, Broadway Baptist Church,Louisville

June 23-28: PassportMissions2, Broadway Baptist Church,Louisville

June 26-28: CBF GeneralAssembly, Greensboro, NCRegister now: http://www.kybf.org/news/2013/1/25/2013-cbf-general-assembly

August 16-17: KBF Coordinat-ing Council Meeting, Melbourne Heights Baptist, Louisville

KBF Youth Missions Weekend: April 12-14

Registration for Youth Missions Weekend is still open. Come to Georgetown April 12-14 and serve with your church at neigh-borhood partners like Mission Lexington, Mission Frankfort Clinic, The Gathering Place in Georgetown, Faith Baptist Com-munity Garden, and Quest Farm. $85/participant. For more infor-mation and to register, visit www.kybf.org/youth-mission-weekend

2012 Church Giving: Because of the generous contributions of numerous individuals and churches, Kentucky Baptist Fellowship is able to make a difference for Jesus Christ. Approximately 90% of KBF receipts come through churches. Some of the money is part of church budgets and some is designated to KBF by church members. Thank you for your generosity!General Fund (undesignated contributions)Anchor Baptist Church Richmond $3,618.10Audubon Baptist Church Louisville $900.00Bagdad Baptist Church Bagdad $1,696.77Berea Baptist Church Berea $150.00Broadway Baptist Church Louisville $16,719.94Buechel Park Baptist Church Louisville $10,081.84Burlington Baptist Church Burlington $31.10Calvary Baptist Church Lexington $20,984.85Campbellsburg Baptist Church Campbellsburg $3,208.42Central Baptist Church Lexington $1,400.00Community Baptist Church Henderson $1,112.40Cornerstone Baptist Church Monticello $900.00Crescent Hill Baptist Church Louisville $3,543.81Deer Park Baptist Church Louisville $1,281.04Eminence Baptist Church Eminence $3,195.76Faith Baptist Church Georgetown $11,099.00Fern Creek Baptist Church Louisville $1,557.19First Baptist Church Bowling Green $870.00First Baptist Church Brandenburg $2,300.00First Baptist Church Carlisle $1,640.00First Baptist Church Corbin $3,750.00First Baptist Church Madisonville $2,527.50First Baptist Church Drakesboro $312.16First Baptist Church Frankfort $3,000.00First Baptist Church Fort Thomas $2,742.43First Baptist Church Lebanon Junction $758.20First Baptist Church Middlesboro $6,671.32First Baptist Church Morehead $2,400.00First Baptist Church Shepherdsville $6,111.47First Baptist Church Vanceburg $484.00First Baptist Church Williamsburg $2,623.01First Baptist Church Winchester $5,933.56Georgetown Baptist Church Georgetown $19,855.74GracePointe Community Mt. Washington $1,100.00Harrodsburg Baptist Church Harrodsburg $2,928.05Hempridge Baptist Church Waddy $2,259.81Highland Baptist Church Louisville $16,695.03Immanuel Baptist Church Frankfort $12,759.48Irvington Baptist Church Irvington $2,824.32Latonia Baptist Church Covington $5,958.30Lewis Lane Baptist Church Owensboro $1,238.11Lexington Ave Baptist Church Danville $18,125.48Living Faith Baptist Fellowship Elizabethtown $6,028.00Lyndon Baptist Church Louisville $852.93Maple Grove Baptist Church Louisville $9,212.49Masonville Baptist Church Utica $1,086.47Midway Baptist Church Midway $8,700.00New Fellowship Baptist Elizabethtown $348.76

Payneville Baptist Church Payneville $27.41Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Louisville $1,918.98Ridgewood Baptist Church Louisville $622.00Rosedale Baptist Church Richmond $478.60Rosemont Baptist Church Lexington $2,979.36Salem Baptist Church Morgantown $1,510.00St Matthews Baptist Church Louisville $8,850.35Stanford Baptist Church Stanford $7,423.57Third Baptist Church Owensboro $2,465.67Trinity Baptist Church Lexington $1,000.00Woodland Baptist Church Louisville $1,254.40

Missions Contributions (includes all mission designated contributions such as missions offering and Extreme Build)Anchor Baptist Church Richmond $100.00Broadway Baptist Church Louisville $1,400.00Buechel Park Baptist Church Louisville $5,554.00Central Baptist Church Lexington $2,100.00Community Baptist Church Henderson $730.00Crescent Hill Baptist Church Louisville $201.00Dawson Baptist Church Owensboro $700.00Deer Park Baptist Church Louisville $1,000.00DeHaven Baptist Church LaGrange $500.00First Baptist Church Carlisle $300.00First Baptist Church Corbin $400.00First Baptist Church Madisonville $4,013.50First Baptist Church Middlesboro $1,200.00First Baptist Church Shepherdsville $2,000.00Georgetown Baptist Church Georgetown $2,150.00GracePointe Community Mt. Washington $202.00Hempridge Baptist Church Waddy $520.00Immanuel Baptist Church Frankfort $1,160.00Living Faith Baptist Fellowship Elizabethtown $1,500.00Third Baptist Church Owensboro $535.00Whitley City First Baptist Whitley City $50.00Woodland Baptist Church Louisville $1,276.00

Morocco PartnershipBuechel Park Baptist Church Louisville $1,575.00Deer Park Baptist Church Louisville $900.00Faith Baptist Church Georgetown $1,970.00First Baptist Church Frankfort $8,300.00Highland Baptist Church Louisville $2,981.17Immanuel Baptist Church Frankfort $2,575.00Jeff Street Baptist Church Louisville $4,083.00Lexington Ave Baptist Church Danville $2,116.78Living Faith Baptist Fellowship Elizabethtown $5,882.82Third Baptist Church Owensboro $1,200.00

OnlineGiving

Making donations via the Internet is not a newconcept. Many Americans pay bills online orhave mortgages automatically deducted fromthe bank account. Online giving is easy,it's convenient, and it's safe.

Sign-up forE-NewsletterIn an effort to reduce environmental waste andsave money in the process, KBF has developedan online newsletter. Simply go to the websiteand sign up! It’s that simple!

Visit www.kybf.org

KBF CoordinatorJohn Lepper - jlepper@kybf.org

KBF Associate Coordinator for MissionsJosh Speight - josh@kybf.org

KBF Administrative AssistantValarie Shoulta - valarie@kybf.org

P.O. Box 7098, Louisville, KY 40257

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

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Extreme Build 8: June 9-15, McCreary CountyMalachi and Shawna Barnett are the KBF Extreme Build home recipients for 2013. Chosen in partnership by KBF, Kentucky Investment Housing Corpora-tion, and McCreary County Community Housing Development Corporation, the Barnetts are excited about becoming new homeowners this June.

As our eighth Extreme Build family, the Barnetts represent the youngest family we have partnered with in McCreary County. Malachi and Shawna met and fell in love in high school and married one another at 17 and 16 years of age, respectively. A short while later they welcomed their son Easton to the family. Shawna enrolled in the nursing program at the University of the Cumberlands where she attended until the night of a car accident in 2011. After a long night of being up tending to Easton while sick, she made her way from Whitley City toward Williamsburg for school. Shawna fell asleep while driving, wrecking her car into a tree. She broke five major bones and was hospitalized for more than two weeks. Despite this setback, the Barnetts remained determined to care for one another and overcome this huge physical and financial burden.

Most young couples are not mature enough to tackle such tremendous responsibilities so quickly and so early in life, yet Mala-chi and Shawna have held onto their love for each other and their son. Malachi works as often as he can as a permanent part-time employee at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Whitley City (alongside 2007 Extreme Build home recipient Richard Garland). Both he and Shawna go to school in Whitley City at Somerset Community College. The Barnetts are excited about Extreme Build. A new home will allow them to continue on their path as a successful family. Come to McCreary County June 9-15 and help the Barnett family be part of the next “Miracle of Partnerships.”

Find more information and register at www.kybf.org/extreme-build-2013