Baptist and Reflector STANTON — Wearing green hats and warm smiles, a large group of Tennessee Baptist volunteers served lunch to more than 1,000 construction workers on Friday afternoon at BlueOval City (the under-construction Ford plant) in Stanton. The luncheon — hosted by more than a dozen Baptist churches and supported by the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board and the Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief feeding unit — was held to celebrate

FRANKLIN — Although Mark Whitt has participated in Beach Reach more than a dozen times, he doesn’t show any signs of burnout.  Quite the opposite. Whitt, the Baptist Collegiate Ministry (BCM) director at Middle Tennessee State University, said his passion for Beach Reach — a ministry in which BCM students travel to Florida to share the gospel with party-seeking spring breakers in Panama City Beach — is perhaps stronger now

SPRINGVILLE — Any way you slice it, Brian Parsons is a bivocational pastor. The bivocational pastor of Springville Baptist Church also is the bivocational pastor of McDavid Grove Baptist Church, both located in Henry County. Parsons is believed to be the only bivocational pastor of two Tennessee Baptist churches at the same time, said Roger Britton, bivocational ministry specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. The unique arrangement has gone

FRANKLIN — Even if the travel distance was short, the spiritual sustenance will surely go a long way for the students who took part in the 2023 Youth Evangelism Conference.  Hosted at three regional sites across the state — thereby cutting down on the mileage for many youth groups — the annual event drew a total of nearly 3,000 attendees and celebrated 80 professions of faith. There were also 15

COVINGTON —  Multiple teams from Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief have converged in Covington to help aid the recovery process after a tornado ripped through the area on Friday night. The violent storm, which classified as a EF-3 tornado, was responsible for one death and 28 injuries, according the news reports, and left a trail of destruction and devastation in the Covington communities.  Many DR volunteers arrived in Covington over the

MOUNT JULIET — Brock and Kathy Henry of Talbott Baptist Church, Talbott, recently were named recipients of the Distinguished Service Award by the North American Mission Board through disaster relief.  The Henrys serve on the Nolachucky Baptist Association DR team.  NAMB presents up to six Distinguished Services Awards each year to individuals who have provided distinguished service to the kingdom of God through Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, demonstrated “Christ in

ADAMSVILLE — McNairy County received extensive damage and lives were lost in the storms that swept across Tennessee on March 31 and the early morning hours of April 1, said Russ Wilkins, director of missions for Shiloh Baptist Church, based in Adamsville Tennessee Emergency Management Association confirmed April 2 that nine people died in weather-related deaths in McNairy County. Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief’s  incident command post, manned by John and