Kenny Rager serves as a Church Evangelism Strategist for the Kentucky Baptist Convention. He came to saving faith at age 7 and was called to preach at age 13. Kenny graduated from Campbellsville University (bachelor’s), Liberty University (master’s of divinity) and Southern Seminary (doctorate). He has pastored in Green County and Ohio County, and planted in his hometown of Owensboro. He has also served as First Vice President of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. Kenny’s hobbies include being with family, traveling, reading, comic book collecting and enjoying a good laugh. He is married to Taran and has four children. The Rager household is never lacking excitement.
How Kenny helps churches:
Kenny helps churches by equipping them in evangelism practices and by sharing the gospel personally all across the state. He also helps coordinate the REACH Evangelism and Missions Conference, a yearly equipping event to help Kentucky Baptists reach Kentucky and the world for Christ. Additionally, he is available for evangelism consultations. Reach out to him at kenny.rager@kybaptist.org.
Helpful resources Kenny recommends:
Bless Every Home provides you with tools to get to know your neighbors by name so that you can begin to build relationships with them. Use your dashboard to track your individual progress with each neighbor. You will even receive optional daily reminder emails with a prayer prompt and 5 neighbors to pray for that day.
Who’s Your One
Who’s your one? Imagine if every member of your church could answer that question with the name of a person. How would it change your community? We have tools to help you inspire and equip your congregation to be on mission. Who’s your one leads the church into a 40 day campaign to pray and reach your one.
The 3 Circles Evangelism Kit is designed to assist pastors in leading a multi-week evangelism emphasis for their church. The kit includes a trainer guide and a trainee guide for small group discussion, a pack of Living on Mission gospel tracts, a flash drive loaded with an overview for the pastor, sermon resources, videos and more.
The Prayer Stand is designed to be set up in parking lots, parks, university campuses, or wherever you are allowed to put one. This unique approach to evangelism will draw people to you for prayer. The willingness to pray to people will lead to sharing the Gospel.
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered, 12 step recovery program for anyone struggling with hurt, pain or addiction of any kind. Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to find community and freedom from the issues that are controlling our life.
Evangelism Books
- Reviving Evangelism by the Barna Group
- Overcoming Walls to Witnessing by Tim Beougher
- Evangelism in a Skeptical World by Sam Chan
- Evangelism as Exiles by Elliot Clark
- Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman
- Understanding the Great Commission by Mark Dever
- Share Jesus Without Fear by Bill Faye
- Evangelism in the Early Church by Michael Green
- The Gospel Conversational Church by Sam Greer
- Tactics by Greg Koukl
- Tell Someone by Greg Laurie
- Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century by Aubrey Malphurs
- More than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
- Bridges of God by Donald McGavran
- Biblical Church Growth by Gary McIntosh
- Questioning Evangelism by Randy Newman
- Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer
- Out of the Salt Shaker into the World by Rebecca Pippert
- Everyday Evangelism by Matt Queen
- Surprising Insights from the Unchurched by Thom Rainer
- Ignite by Nelson Searcy
- Evangelism: A Concise History by John Mark Terry
- Concentric Circles of Concern by W. Oscar Thompson Jr.