Kentucky Sent Ones is a weekly focus that provides a connection with and prayer support for missionaries from Kentucky, serving through IMB, NAMB or MSC.

These missionaries have responded obediently to God’s call to go, but they need us to hold the rope. Without consistent reminders, disintegration between churches and missionaries will happen even among the most loving, well-intentioned senders. Lead your church to tighten their grip on the rope for Kentucky Sent missionaries. Multiple resources (slides, social media posts, bulletin inserts and prayer requests) are provided each week to help churches highlight prayer for mission workers in a variety of ministry contexts.

September 2026

Earl & Robin Pinkston 

September 6

Earl and Robin went to Malta in September 1998 as ISC (2 year) missionaries and are continuing to live and minister there. We work closely with Knisja Evangelika Battista (Evangelical Baptist Church) and also alongside all the evangelical churches in Malta. We also support other IMB teammates in Malta and Sicily. We have had several teams of volunteers from Kentucky in the past,and are planning to continue to do so as God opens doors.

Earl grew up in Mercer County and graduated from Georgetown College. Robin grew up in Jackson, Tennessee. Our daughter, Kathryn, is a graduate of Union University and is working and living in Jackson, Tennessee. Our sons are at the University of Kentucky! Thomas is a junior studying Business Management with a Theater minor. Nathan is a freshman and is currently a Communications major. Our sending church is Bethel Baptist Church in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

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Rachel S. 

September 13

I serve in the United Kingdom as the program director for a Training Centre which exists to equip and develop church planters – including my IMB colleagues serving across Europe, and around the globe, as well as national partners! From equipping new missionaries to strategizing for gospel spread in urban cities to facilitating discussions on accessing unreached people groups and everything in between, I work behind the scenes to coordinate a wide variety of trainings and meetings by helping provide the meals, transportation, and meeting space.

I graduated from Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY (2023); my sending church is Ninth & O Baptist Church in Louisville.

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Chris & Rhonda Richard

September 20

We are city team leaders in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We also host a church plant and our English conversation club in our home. Our team consists of two journeymen, our US mission team coordinator, our university campus ministry leader, and our logistics coordinators. We work primarily with university students, of which there are 500,000 in the city, and young adults. We partner with the local association of Baptist churches, ABUA (campus ministry), CRU (campus ministry) and Palabra de Vida (Word of Life Bible Institute).

Our sending church is Hebron Baptist Church in Hebron, KY. We were married in the church in October 2011. Before leaving for the mission field, we lived in neighboring Burlington, KY. At the time of our departure for the mission field, Rhonda served in the children’s ministry in the church and I (Chris) served as the director of discipleship.

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R.M.

September 27

The Lord is allowing me to serve in a global city helping partnering churches in the areas of university students, young professionals and women.

I grew up in Pike County and have been sent out by my home church, First Baptist Church of Belfry. I also graduated from Clear Creek Baptist Bible College and Southern Seminary.

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Andrew & Alexa
Andrew & Alexa were sent from Redemption Hill Baptist Church in Fisherville.… View Details
Rob & Mandi Allen
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Jessica Baniewicz
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