March 26-27, 2010
First Baptist Church, Lee's Summit
The 8th Annual
Meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Missouri will be held Friday
and Saturday, March 26-27, 2010, at the First Baptist Church (2 NE Douglas)
in Lee's Summit, Missouri. The theme for this year's Annual Meeting is
"God's Plans: Hope and a Future!" from Jeremiah 29:11.
The Friday afternoon session begins at 1:00 p.m., the Friday evening session
begins at 6:30 p.m. and the Saturday morning session begins at 8:30 a.m.
Our Strategy Planning Task Force is nearing the completion of their work, and we anticipate sharing the outline for our strategic plan for 2010 through 2015 at our Annual Meeting. We will have our Annual Missions Banquet on Friday at 5:00 p.m. prior to the evening session.
William J. Shaw David M. May Randall Bunch
Dr. William Shaw, Pastor of the White Rock Baptist Church in Philadelphia and past president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, will be our keynote speaker and Dr. David M. May, Professor of New Testament, Central Baptist Theological Seminary, will be our Bible Study Teacher.
Randy Buffington, Minister of Music at First Baptist Church in Lee's Summit, will serve as the Music and Worship Coordinator for our Annual Meeting. Our President, Dr. Randall Bunch, will deliver the President's Address. Click the Annual Meeting links above for more information regarding our Annual Meeting.
First Priority is all about churches. It is about acknowledging that the convention exists to serve churches and church leaders. It is about focusing on the needs of local congregations and seeking to minimize the convention’s bureaucracies and overhead. It is an effort to remember that conventions are merely the way churches cooperate to strengthen their ministries and do together what they would not be able to do alone.
First Priority includes four Great Commission Initiatives—Leadership Development, Congregational Health, Church Planting and Missions Mobilization. These are the areas where the BGCM must take decisive action as we serve churches. Our two Resource Initiatives are Ministry Resources and Congregational Relationships. You can click the links to the left to learn more about these initiatives or click First Priority to learn more. A First Priority brochure and a brief video that provides an overview of the plan are available free of charge from the convention office or click here for a downloadable copy of the brochure.
