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January 8, 2019

Five Objectives progress, anniversaries top news of 2018 By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — Statistics indicating that the convention-adopted Five Objectives are having an impact in Tennessee, along with significant anniversaries of Tennessee Baptist Mission Board ministries, were among the top stories in the Tennessee Baptist Convention in 2018. In addition, two TBC entities underwent changes in leadership in 2018.- Baptisms in 2017 increased by slightly

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IN HISTORIC SEASON, OBU TIGERS VALUE FAITH, CHARACTER

January 4, 2019

By Caleb Yarbrough Arkansas Baptist News ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — This year’s Ouachita Baptist University Tigers football team was the winningest in the school’s history. And while college football is a big deal in the South, where many enjoy cheering on their favorite team regardless of the record, it is especially nice to cheer for a winner — on and off the field. The Tigers went undefeated in the Great American Conference

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PASTOR DUO TEAMS UP TO REVITALIZE HISTORIC CHURCH

December 31, 2018

By Jessica Tate Grainger Today BLAINE — Mouth of Richland Baptist Church in Blaine celebrated its 230th anniversary with a homecoming celebration on Oct. 28. The church opened in 1788, eight years before the establishment of the state of Tennessee and Grainger County in 1796. It was the first Baptist church in Grainger County and possibly the 18th oldest church in the state. It is now one of few churches

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DR. PAUL B. CLARK, JR AND THE GOD WHO TUNES MY HEART

December 29, 2018

By Todd E. Brady Vice president for University Ministries, Union University, Jackson Shakespeare said, “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” When we first met at Camp Carson Youth Music Week in 1990, I didn’t realize that Paul Clark would sing at my wedding almost a decade later. I also didn’t realize that I would end up naming my fourth son after him 20 years

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A LOVE FOR CAMPING MINISTRY

December 28, 2018

TBMB retiree Tim Bearden excitedly prepares for the ‘next chapter’ of his life By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] LINDEN — Longtime Tennessee Baptist Mission Board staff member Tim Bearden has had a love for Christian camps since his early childhood in Georgia, growing up in a preacher’s home. “There never was a time in my life that I did not know the love of God because of

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RETIRED TBMB STAFFER PAUL CLARK DIES

December 26, 2018

Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD – Paul Clark Jr., retired director of worship and music ministries for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, died Dec. 24 after a long illness. Clark served on the TBMB staff from 2000 until his retirement in 2016 after suffering a stroke in November of 2015. During his tenure with the TBMB, Clark directed both the Tennessee Men’s Chorale and the Tennessee Ladies Chorus. He also served

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SMALL CHURCH, GENEROUS HEART

December 26, 2018

FBC, Andersonville, supports both CP and a missionary couple Editor’s Note: Churches all across Tennessee and around the nation are in the process of collecting the annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. Read how a Tennessee church meets the needs of a missionary couple while continuing to give more than 10 percent of its undesignated receipts through the Cooperative Program. Baptist Press ANDERSONVILLE  — A Tennessee Baptist church

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REMEMBERING THE LORD OUR GOD IN 2018

December 23, 2018

By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director You may be overrun with Christmas activities and see a busy 2019 blowing in like a thunderstorm racing across a Kansas prairie. Last minute gifts, parties, travel to be with loved ones, and on it goes. We get to this point of the year and it seems we try to squeeze about six months of activity through the funnel of a

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‘COME AS YOU ARE’ APPROACH HELPS CHURCH CONNECT WITH COMMUNITY

December 21, 2018

By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector [email protected] HOHENWALD — Since his arrival at First Baptist Church, Hohenwald, roughly five years ago, pastor Bert Spann said he has seen the church undergo a change in culture. And it started with a change of clothes. Before Spann’s arrival, FBC had essentially been operating as a white-collar church in the heart of a blue-collar town. But over the past half decade, the church

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CHRISTMAS BACKPACKS IMPACT TN FAMILIES

December 20, 2018

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — Children living in the Appalachian area of Tennessee have been beneficiaries of the Christmas Backpack Ministry for several years, most of which have been donated from outside the state itself. The Christmas Backpack Ministry has evolved  over the years since 2001 when some Girls in Action (GAs) in Georgia decided they wanted to do something special for children living in

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