ATLANTA (BP)--The Great Commission Resurgence Task Force made excellent progress in its Nov. 30-Dec. 1 meeting in Atlanta and plans to present a substantial report during the February meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee in Nashville, Tenn., task force chairman Ronnie Floyd said.

"We made great, enormous progress today," Floyd told Baptist Press after adjourning the meeting, which was held in the Renaissance Hotel near Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport. "We're wrestling; we're going through it. But the group has been great. Yesterday and today we ended with tremendous oneness, tremendous togetherness."

The 23-member task force heard reports from North American Mission Board leadership; Ed Stetzer, director of LifeWay Research; and Morris H. Chapman, president of the SBC Executive Committee, Floyd said. The NAMB updates came from trustee chairman Tim Patterson; interim president Richard Harris; and Ted Traylor, chairman of the board's presidential search committee and GCR task force member.

That report was followed later in the day by Stetzer's presentation, which focused on church planting in North America. Stetzer had been co-chairman of a 24-member task force appointed by NAMB's then-president, Geoff Hammond, to "take a fresh look at how Southern Baptists should look at the Great Commission in times such as these" but that group dissolved after Hammond's resignation Aug. 11. After Stetzer completed the report, task force members discussed issues related to NAMB until they adjourned just before 11 p.m. Monday.

The Tuesday morning session opened with an address from the Executive Committee's Chapman, Floyd said.

"Dr. Chapman spoke to us about the status of the Executive Committee, what was on his heart, and then talked to us about some future thoughts about the SBC," Floyd explained. "Then we had a question and answer time with him. The rest of our day was talking about how to reach North America, the role of some of our denominational entities in that. We talked some, obviously, about the Executive Committee because Dr. Chapman had given us a report about the Executive Committee."

Chapman announced Sept. 21 that he will retire Sept. 30, 2010, after 18 years in the position.

Task force members engaged in "a lot of open dialogue" during their meeting, Floyd said.