By Ashley Perham Baptist & Reflector intern MEMPHIS — City Reach provides an opportunity for churches to partner with each other no matter their size. Last month in City Reach Memphis, a 60-attendee church plant from Murfreesboro helped a 60-year-old church in the heart of Memphis. That same week, a large missions-minded church from Franklin helped a tiny church plant in a seemingly hopeless Memphis neighborhood. Living Water Church, a

By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] NASHVILLE — When New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law one of the nation’s most comprehensive abortion laws earlier this year, he “woke a sleeping giant,” declared Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. Davis was one of five pro-life proponents who appealed to a nine-member Tennessee Senate Judiciary Summer Study Committee Aug. 12 to join thousands of Tennessee

Weakley County Association doesn’t use size as excuse while making impact in Music City By Ashley Perham Baptist & Reflector intern NASHVILLE — Weakley County in northwest Tennessee has a little over 33,000 residents. Yet the Holy Spirit used the rural Weakley County Baptist Association to partner with City Reach Nashville this year to help Nashville churches reach the almost two million people in the region. The association was involved

Ministry provides beds to needy children in East Tennessee By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] JACKSBORO — If national projections hold true, thousands of children in Tennessee will go to bed tonight on something other than a bed – whether it be an air mattress on the floor, blankets or something else. If national estimates are accurate, about two to four percent of the children in the United States do not have

Group from Maury County finds ways to promote, produce racial harmony By David Dawson and Ashley Perham Baptist and Reflector writers COLUMBIA — With reflective expressions and hopeful hearts, the members of Stand Together Fellowship walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on the afternoon of July 10.    They moved along in mixed pairs — one white and one black — as they strode across the historic

By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — In the days leading up to his appearance on the floor of the Tennessee Senate, Randy C. Davis continues to encourage Tennessee Baptists to be active participants in the “I Stand for Life” campaign. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, is scheduled to address the Tennessee Senate on Monday, Aug. 12. When he does so, he plans

Baptist and Reflector staff reports FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptists officially set a new record on Friday. In the coming days, they’re likely to shatter it. The yearly total for giving through the Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions reached $1,849,366.84 on Friday, setting a new one-year mark for Tennessee Baptists and surpassing the previous high of $1,843,511.03 that was given in 2017.  Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist