Better Than One

Super Saturday 2010 is a one day training event for all leaders in any church.  The theme this year is:  “Evaluating Ministry Health”.  How is our church and ministries doing?  Do we have enough leaders and workers?  Are they trained and ready to go?  Do the workers or leaders understand their vision and purpose for their ministry?  All other occupations or jobs require people to stay current and up-to-date.  How about our church leaders?  When is the last time they have been challenged to “raise the bar” in their assigned ministry?

There are 6 sites for Super Saturday: 

8-21  Lexington / 8-28  Louisville               

9-11  Williamsburg & Paducah             

9-18  Russell & Bowling Green

It is exciting to be in a state that provides such strong and encouraging training for churches and leaders.  Super Saturday leaders come from all over the state, other states, and LifeWay.  Dr. Chuck Lawless from Southern Seminary will be the large group speaker at Lexington and Louisville. 

It is a great opportunity for churches to travel together and discuss what they expect coming to the event.  When they go home,  they get to review the day, what they have learned, and what next steps they are ready to take.   If you are coming,  Thanks and God bless.  If you are still considering Super Saturday,  go to our website and sign up.  If you cannot come on that day,  who can?  One person can make the difference in your church or ministry.

Hispanic Ministry Track is at FBC, Danville on August 7th and at Cooper BC in Louisville on August 21st.

For More Information:

Registration:  $35 per person

www.kybaptist.org/supersaturday                502-489-3572 or 866-489-3572 (toll free)   supersaturday@kybaptist.org

No Childcare Provided

“I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus”      (Phil. 1:6)

Fear is a word often used as our church looks at the financial market, layoff of workers, businesses closing, and giving.  I was watching an older movie “Patch Adams” with Robin Williams.  Early in the movie Robin Williams admits himself into a mental hospital because he is so depressed and feels like a complete loser.  He immediately meets an old, eccentric, millionaire who asks him how many fingers he is holding up.  Robin looks and tells him “four”.  The old man calls him crazy and walks away.  Robin Williams is intrigued with this old man. One night he finds him doing math equations on the wall that only a brilliant person could understand.  As he patches a leaking coffee cup for the old man, Robin wants to know about those four fingers .   The old man again asks Robin how many fingers  he sees, and he replies “four”.  “No” said the old man.  “Look again.  Look beyond the fingers.  Look at me.”  When Robin looked at the old man’s face and not his fingers, he surprisingly saw eight fingers.   The obvious lesson was– Don’t look at the problem (four fingers), but look beyond the problem to the answer.  Many today are presently consumed with financial problems and fail to look beyond them to the answer–Jesus. 

The church is here for such a time as this! (Esther 4:14)

Dennis Bickers in his Bivocational Ministries blog encourages us to not miss this window of opportunity “to share God’s hope and encouragement to a people whose lives have been turned upside-down.  The message of the media and culture is gloom and doom; the message of the church should be one of hope and encouragement as we point people to Jesus Christ.”

At KBC Deacon’s Retreat in Lexington, Ken Hemphill, SBC National Strategist for Empowering Kingdom Growth. said, “Fear should become Faith, Panic should become Passion, and Timidity should become Tenacity”.  The church must stay positive and be proactive not reactive.  Pray, listen, and hear what God has in store for you!