Kenwood Baptist Church (KBC) is an American Baptist church located in the Kenwood area of Sycamore Township, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Greater Cincinnati area has about 1.5 million people. Downtown Cincinnati is a fifteen-minute drive south from Kenwood on
I-71. As a city, we boast all the cultural attractions of much larger cities as well as professional sports teams, two major universities and several smaller colleges. Hebrew Union College is also located here.

Kenwood and its immediate surrounding area are multiclass, multiracial and multicultural. The church reflects this to some degree. We have congregants in age from 1 to 95. We are represented by the standard nuclear family, young singles, single parents, and older singles, from those on welfare to the very wealthy.

Through our Sunday morning services and classes, as well as our Wednesday evening programs, KBC ministers to about 500 adults, youth and children. Our building is also used regularly throughout the week for community programs, youth activities, outreach to the Japanese and others. The congregation has about 15 different countries represented within it.

The structure of the church staff is: a senior pastor and two associate pastors, one of whom is the business administrator and the other of whom is focused on evangelizing young adults and counseling them. Other full-time staff includes a director of worship, student ministries pastor and a children’s education pastor. We hired a part-time women’s leader in 2007. We also have a Minister of Visitation. Constitutionally, we have a Moderator, Vice Moderator, Treasurer, and Secretary. The entire staff teaches during the week at least once and often two or three times in different settings.

There are a number of committees which meet regularly to help the church function more efficiently and to help the staff. The committees meet monthly and report through the Executive Council.

One of our higher-profile committees is the Missions Committee. As a church we strive to at least tithe from the undesignated tithes and offerings to missions. Kenwood Baptist supports a number of overseas missionaries and actively supports our local outreach missions. As a member of the ABC, USA churches, we dedicate a minimum of 55% of missions to ABC projects.

The church is active in the Miami Baptist Association. This is a regional group of churches that come together to share vision, prayer and assistance to each other. Recently, the Association came together to buy a campground that had not been successful under
the previous church group. Since taking control, the camp has seen a huge increase in use and is operating in the black. Kenwood Baptist and the staff have been critical to this success.