Keeping true to tradition, the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board hosted a “dessert reception” during this year’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. The reception — which took place on June 12 (the evening prior to the official start of the annual meeting) at the New Orleans convention center — was well attended, as Tennessee Baptists filled the room for a time of fellowship and king cake. Randy C. Davis, president and

NEW ORLEANS — Union University presented Ben Mandrell, president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources and a former Tennessee pastor, with the M.E. Dodd Denominational Service Award during a June 13 alumni dinner at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans, La. The Dodd Award is the highest denominational service award Union gives. It is named for the man who was a 1904 Union graduate, served as president

Lives are being changed this week at All Nations Camp at Linden Valley Baptist Conference Center. More than 40 children have made professions of faith thus far at camp, said William Burton, ethnic church planting specialist and new churches team leader for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, shortly after the worship session on Thursday morning. Click the video below for an update from Burton.  

NEW ORLEANS — Several Tennessee Baptists were elected to serve on Southern Baptist Convention committees and entities during the annual meeting of the convention last week in New Orleans. The Committee on Committees chose two Tennessee Baptists to serve on the 2023 Committee on Nominations — Mark Puckett, First Baptist Church, Tullahoma, and Joan Cook, First Baptist Church, Joelton. Erin D. “Dani” Bryson, First Baptist Church, Dickson, was elected to