By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] NEWPORT — Donna Blaydes has been either bringing children to Journey Camp sponsored by the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board or served on the camp staff since 2011. Now, as a children’s ministry specialist for the TBMB, she has directed the camps for the past five years. The last of the three Journey Camps (a three-day camp) ended on June 29 at Carson Springs Baptist Conference Center
Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptists have reached the goal for the Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions for the first time since 2007-08. As of July 8, gifts to the Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions stood at $2,100,517.16, exceeding the 2021-22 goal of $2.1 million and extending the record offering of $1,976,260 which was set in late April. There are still seven weeks to go in the current GOTM
By David Dawson [email protected] FRANKLIN — Before the smoke from the Independence Day fireworks has even cleared the air, Beth Moore is already looking ahead to Christmas. Or, more specifically, the Christmas Backpacks ministry, which provides backpacks filled with toys, clothing, hygiene items, food and other items to children in low-income families. It also serves as a means of outreach and evangelism for participating churches.
Vanderbilt has a ‘new’ place: BCM building remodeled By Chris Turner [email protected] NASHVILLE — Bill Choate asked James Kennon if he’d help select a paint color suitable for “freshening up” the Vanderbilt University Baptist College Ministry building. Neither of them could have imagined then that 33 years later they’d be cutting the ribbon on a complete overhaul. “The building was built in 1963,” said Choate, Director of Baptist Collegiate Ministries
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] NASHVILLE — Skyline Medical Center in Nashville is a mission field ripe for ministry opportunities, says chaplain Bill Palmiter. Palmiter, who retired as pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Greenbrier in 2007 after 20 years of ministry, has been a volunteer chaplain for 23 years and has been the lead chaplain at Skyline for about a year. He, along with Julie Davis, director
By David Dawson [email protected] MARYVILLE — The children from Madison Avenue Baptist Church have been all around the world in the past few months. Yet they’ve always made it home well before bedtime. Participating in a missions-based program called “TREKK” — which was held each Wednesday night at the church for several months — the children “visited” about a dozen countries, learning about the different cultures, languages and cuisine of
By Scott Barkley Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Within images released by the James Webb telescope, Christians can not only get previously unseen views of the cosmos, but resounding confirmation of God’s creative design and man’s perspective in it. David Block, emeritus professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Danny Faulkner, who taught for 26 years at the University of South Carolina-Lancaster before joining Answers in Genesis,
NEWPORT — Music and proclaiming God’s Word go hand in hand for Memphis church planter and pastor Courtney Franklin. And, it is evident that music is not just a hobby. Franklin recently wrote and recorded a song entitled “Send Us Peace” that spent two weeks in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Digital Sales Chart for gospel music. In addition, Franklin, who has been singing professionally since he was 17, has
By Scott Barkley Baptist Press NASHVILLE — The weekday preschool ministry at Englewood Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, N.C., feeds approximately 60 children a day, a number that doubles in the fall. Food costs have always been a part of such ministries, but it’s just one of several areas where inflation has commanded more attention. Financial giving has remained on par, but the church struggles to keep up with the
By Chad Burchett Baptist Press WAKE FOREST, N.C. — In an effort to ensure that students are equipped to prevent and respond to abuse in their ministry contexts, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary has announced the launch of a mandatory sexual abuse prevention and response course starting August 2022. “Sexual abuse in any form should not be tolerated. It is a sinful act against fellow image bearers and an affront to
By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] NEWPORT — Donna Blaydes has been either bringing children to Journey Camp sponsored by the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board or served
Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptists have reached the goal for the Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions for the first time since 2007-08. As
By David Dawson [email protected] FRANKLIN — Before the smoke from the Independence Day fireworks has even cleared the air, Beth Moore is already looking ahead
Vanderbilt has a ‘new’ place: BCM building remodeled By Chris Turner [email protected] NASHVILLE — Bill Choate asked James Kennon if he’d help select a paint
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] NASHVILLE — Skyline Medical Center in Nashville is a mission field ripe for ministry opportunities, says chaplain
By David Dawson [email protected] MARYVILLE — The children from Madison Avenue Baptist Church have been all around the world in the past few months. Yet
By Scott Barkley Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Within images released by the James Webb telescope, Christians can not only get previously unseen views of the
NEWPORT — Music and proclaiming God’s Word go hand in hand for Memphis church planter and pastor Courtney Franklin. And, it is evident that music
By Scott Barkley Baptist Press NASHVILLE — The weekday preschool ministry at Englewood Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, N.C., feeds approximately 60 children a day,
By Chad Burchett Baptist Press WAKE FOREST, N.C. — In an effort to ensure that students are equipped to prevent and respond to abuse in