Chip Hutcheson

1 week ago | kentuckytoday.com | Chip Hutcheson

MURRAY, Ky. (KT) — The Kentucky Baptist Mission Board — expressing its desire to address lostness in Kentucky — voted this week to increase support for church planting and replanting. Todd Gray, Kentucky Baptist Convention executive director, told Mission Board members that increased funding is one aspect of a “Church Multiplied” initiative. “We will expand coaching networks and support for Church Multiplied planters and replanters as well as hosting a 2026 Church Multiplied Summit.

1 week ago | brnow.org | Chip Hutcheson

MURRAY, Ky. (KT) — More than 300 Kentucky Baptists celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Program (CP) Monday night (May 5) at its birthplace — First Baptist Church of Murray. The event not only honored the CP legacy but looked forward to the future and what can be accomplished through cooperation.

1 week ago | baptistpress.com | Sue Sprenkle |Chip Hutcheson |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode

Metadata:Topic(s): International Mission BoardFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Africa has an urgent need for laborers to share the Gospel. The image among Christian circles often portrays this area as mostly evangelical and reached. But according to International Mission Board missionary Josh Rivers, that’s not really the case. “Senegal is less evangelical than Iran,” Rivers, who has worked as a missionary in West Africa for more than 20 years, emphasized about a country steeped in Islam.

1 week ago | baptistpress.com | Sue Sprenkle |Chip Hutcheson |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode

Metadata:Series: First PersonTopic(s): Sexual AbuseFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Southern Baptists are a force for good – I have been inspired by Dr. Jeff Iorg’s common refrain as I have traveled with him and met Southern Baptist leaders. For more than 100 years, Southern Baptists have been a force for good throughout the U.S. and around the globe.

1 week ago | baptistpress.com | Sue Sprenkle |Chip Hutcheson |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode

NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program giving remained 3.3 percent below year-to-date budget goals at the end of April, the same as it had at the end of March. However, CP giving in April 2025 was slightly higher than giving in April 2024. Southern Baptists gave nearly $15.5 million in undesignated receipts last month, bringing the year-to-date total to just under $110.5 million – 3.3. percent below the year-to-date budget of more than $114 million.