By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBC VIRACO, Peru — Julissa knelt beside her daddy and urged him to get back on the donkey. He’d collapsed by the side of the road, torso in the bushes, legs and feet stretched out into the dusty mountain road. “C’mon Papi. We need to go home.” But he was barely conscious and unable to move, a stupor brought on from a morning of
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist & Reflector ST. LOUIS — Tennessee pastor Steve Gaines was elected by acclamation as president of the Southern Baptist Convention after fellow nominee J.D. Greear of North Carolina withdrew his name from consideration. The day before (June 14), Gaines, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church, Cordova, missed election as president by three votes in a runoff election with Greear, pastor of Summit Church in Durham, N.C.
By Carol Pipes, Editor, Facts & Trends at LifeWay Christian Resources and By Lonnie Wilkey, Editor, Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — Southern Baptists as a whole and Tennessee Baptists in general may find cause for hope in the latest Annual Church Profile report. Both the Southern Baptist Convention and Tennessee Baptist Convention added more churches in 2015, due mostly to church planting efforts. Churches also experienced an increase in total
By Julie McGowan Baptist Press RICHMOND — Southern Baptists provided resounding support through the 2015 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. Finalized in early June, the 2015 Lottie Moon offering totaled $165.8 million — the highest total in the 127-year history of the offering. The offering surpassed the previous all-time record of $154 million in 2013 by $11.8 million. The 2014 Lottie Moon offering totaled just over $153 million.
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,554,604 through the Cooperative Program in May. In the first seven months of the 2015-16 fiscal year, Tennessee Baptists have given $20,303,904 through the CP giving channel to meet missions and ministry needs in Tennessee and around the world.
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector WILLISTON — Thankfully the wait wasn’t 40 years, a popular biblical period. It would have been more tolerable if the wait had been 40 days, another common biblical period. Instead Williston Baptist Church here waited about five years to begin to use its new building. The situation developed because of a misunderstanding on building regulations.
By Shawn Hendricks Baptist Press NASHVILLE — When Southern Baptists depart St. Louis after their annual meeting in June, says SBC president Ronnie Floyd, he will be praying they do so with a “deep burden for our nation, a new commitment to racial unity, and an extraordinary commitment to evangelize America.” With the theme of this year’s June 14-15 gathering being “Awaken America: Reach the World — Agree, Unite, Pray,”
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptists’ giving through the Cooperative Program is trending upward. For the first time in five years (since the 2010-11 budget year), Cooperative Program gifts from Tennessee Baptist Convention churches not only are up over the previous year, but they are above projected needs midway into the budget year which ends Oct. 31. The increase also is only the second increase
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Steve Freeman, senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Springfield, will be nominated for the presidency of the Tennessee Baptist Convention at The Summit in November. Freeman currently serves as chair of the Executive Board of the TBC. He is the only announced nominee to date. Chattanooga-area pastor Eric Stitts of Bayside Baptist Church, Harrison, informed the Baptist and Reflector May 23
By Bonnie Pritchett Baptist Press AUSTIN, Texas (BP) — Eleven states and two school districts filed a lawsuit May 25 challenging President Barack Obama’s directive demanding all federally funded schools apply a controversial interpretation of Title IX requiring schools to define a student’s sexual identity based not on biological traits, but on feelings. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include Texas, Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah, and Georgia; Governor
By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBC VIRACO, Peru — Julissa knelt beside her daddy and urged him to get back on the donkey. He’d
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist & Reflector ST. LOUIS — Tennessee pastor Steve Gaines was elected by acclamation as president of the Southern Baptist Convention
By Carol Pipes, Editor, Facts & Trends at LifeWay Christian Resources and By Lonnie Wilkey, Editor, Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — Southern Baptists as a
By Julie McGowan Baptist Press RICHMOND — Southern Baptists provided resounding support through the 2015 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. Finalized in early
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,554,604 through the Cooperative Program in May. In the first seven months of the 2015-16
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector WILLISTON — Thankfully the wait wasn’t 40 years, a popular biblical period. It would have been
By Shawn Hendricks Baptist Press NASHVILLE — When Southern Baptists depart St. Louis after their annual meeting in June, says SBC president Ronnie Floyd, he
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptists’ giving through the Cooperative Program is trending upward. For the first time in five
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Steve Freeman, senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Springfield, will be nominated for the presidency of
By Bonnie Pritchett Baptist Press AUSTIN, Texas (BP) — Eleven states and two school districts filed a lawsuit May 25 challenging President Barack Obama’s directive