Category Archives: Testimonies

Southern Seminary Students Say “Thanks”

By Scott Pittman | Published: July 13, 2010

Our students at Southern Seminary want to extend their gratitude for the scholarships they received from the Kentucky Baptist Convention through the Partnership Missions Department. Enclosed are letters from the recipients about their mission trips.                                                                              W. Michael Clark                                                                              Instructor of World Religion         (Below are excerpts from the letters. Country names have been censored [...]

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Guide for Drafting a Partnership Agreement, Part 3

By Scott Pittman | Published: September 18, 2009

This is part three of a four part series designed to help churches draft a partnership agreement. Priorities, Goals, and Action Plans See Attachment 1(you might include a brief paragraph here about the major priorities of the partnership, but the Priorities, Goals, and Action Plans of the partnership should be an addendum to the original agreement [...]

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Teresina Brazil Church Plant Targets Upper Class

By Scott Pittman | Published: September 11, 2009

Guest post by Jório and Nordely Francílio, Brazilian Home Mission Board missionaries. With great joy we have started planting the Baptist University Congregation in Teresina! A great blessing we have been reserved by the Lord to send volunteers from Ceara, Maranhao and Para to help us in this blessed task of evangelizing the neighborhood residents [...]

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Acts 1:8 Challenge Podcast Features Kentucky Pastors

By Scott Pittman | Published: June 24, 2009

New Podcast: Witness the Church in Action!   Listen to the latest Acts 1:8 Challenge Podcast “Watch the Church in Action” featuring Ed Admundson, pastor of High Street Baptist Church, Somerset, Ky., at www.ActsOne8.com/podcastfeed or search for the Acts 1:8 Challenge on iTunes. Direct link: http://tinyurl.com/ax44ak

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Trip Report: Peru Vision Trip – Part 4

By Scott Pittman | Published: June 3, 2009

IMB REAP TEAM One of the priviledges of the Peru vision trip was getting to meet the missionaries. When we arrived at the Lima airport we were met by Alan Stone, IMB missionary, who would be working with us the entire week. Alan, a Birmingham, Alabama native, took his first trip to Peru in 1999. [...]

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Panamanian Pastor Takes on Rural Challenge

By Scott Pittman | Published: May 11, 2009

  Pastor Mike receives the Tates Creek Vision Team Panamanian Pastor, Miguel Harrison, was born in 1955 in the Panama Canal Zone, a 553 square mile territory extending 5 miles from each side of the canal. Established in 1903 by the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty, the area was created for the construction and maintenance of the canal which was inaugurated [...]

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Panamanian Indians Receive Kentucky Missionary

By Scott Pittman | Published: May 5, 2009

Out of all the stories of missionaries being called to the mission field, I find that there are really only two categories. The first category is that of the missionary who yields fully to their calling, serving obediently and going the moment that God calls. This kind of story I call the “feel good” story. [...]

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Kentucky Natives Now Panama IMB Missionaries

By Scott Pittman | Published: May 4, 2009

From Farming and Freight to Career Missions Kenny and Cheryl Morris, IMB missionaries to Panama, are far from their Nicholasville, KY roots and the daily farming tasks that once was their life. Members of Mt. Freedom Baptist Church, this lay couple never dreamed that one day that they would be serving the Lord on foreign soil. In 1999, God [...]

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Missional — Not Just Missions-Minded

By Scott Pittman | Published: May 4, 2009

From: Impact Your World Acts 1:8 Update Beulah Baptist Church, Hopkins, S.C.  ”We’d been working on our Jerusalem for two hundred years. It was time to go to the ends of the earth,” said Brad Bessent, pastor of Beulah Baptist Church, Hopkins, S.C. He was one of the presenters at the February 2009 Impact Your [...]

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Preparing for Panama

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 29, 2009

I asked Vincent Carmen, the Team Leader of Tates Creek Baptist Association Vision Team to share some thoughts about getting his team ready for Panama. (See Panama! post) Here’s what he had to share. Preparation   I think that it is essential for a team to be prepared well for their trip. We have put together [...]

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