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FUNDING, POLITY REVISIONS MADE TO SEXUAL ABUSE TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS

June 9, 2022

By Jennifer Davis Rash The Baptist Paper Funding and polity revisions have been made to the two recommendations coming from the SBC Sexual Abuse Task Force, according to a video announcement June 8. These recommendations will be proposed to messengers during the June 14–15 annual meeting in Anaheim. “(We have a) new funding mechanism through Send Relief that will fund the reforms entirely the first year without use of Cooperative

TBMB LEADER CALLS FOR BREAK WITH GUIDEPOST SOLUTIONS

June 7, 2022

By Lonnie Wilkey and Chris Turner Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — In response to a tweet by Guidepost Solutions supporting the LGBTQ+ community, Southern Baptists should “immediately break ties with Guidepost Solutions,” said Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. Guidepost Solutions posted the following statement to its Twitter account on June 6. “Guidepost is committed to strengthening diversity, equity and inclusion and

TENNESCENE: JUN. 8

June 7, 2022

LEADERS Roger Stacy will retire June 30 after 15 years as director of missions for Gibson Baptist Association. Prior to Gibson Association, he served as director of missions for Central Baptist Association, based in McMinnville, for 10 years. He and his wife, Penny, also were the first International Mission Board missionaries to serve in western Ukraine in 1993 after the fall of communism. The association will hold a retirement reception

UNCHARTED WATER

June 7, 2022

Recent baptism believed to be first among people group Editor’s note: Some names have been changed for security reasons. By Leslie Peacock Caldwell IMB news office COLOMBIA — In early April 2022, IMB missionary Travis Burkhalter waded into the rushing waters of a jungle river in Colombia to baptize Sarah, the first known follower of Christ among her tribe. With tribe members watching from the bank of the river and

STATE CP GIFTS ABOVE BUDGET

June 6, 2022

Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches provided $2,792,007 through the Cooperative Program in May. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $20,855,902. With five months to go in the 2021-22 budget year, the amount is $527,487 or 2.6 percent over the amount during the same time last year and $439,235 or 2.15 percent over budget needs.

EC TRUSTEES VOTE TO APPROVE INITIAL, FUTURE FUNDING OF SEXUAL ABUSE RESPONSE

June 3, 2022

By Scott Barkley Baptist Press NASHVILLE — The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee (EC) voted June 2 to revise previously recommended budgets in order to fund recommendations made by the Sexual Abuse Task Force (SATF). A special-called Zoom meeting, attended by 57 of 67 current members, addressed reallocating funds given in excess of the 2021-22 national Cooperative Program Allocation Budget approved at last year’s annual meeting in Nashville as well

FOUBERT BOOK HELPS PARENTS PROTECT CHILDREN FROM INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY

June 2, 2022

By Suzanne Rhodes Union University news office JACKSON — John Foubert, professor and dean of the College of Education at Union University, released a new book to help educate parents on the harm of pornography and to guide them in difficult conversations with children of all ages. Foubert’s second book on the harms of pornography, Protecting Your Children from Internet Pornography shows parents how pornography consumption has changed, how it’s

SATF RECOMMENDS ‘MINISTRY CHECK’ DATABASE, ABUSE REFORM IMPLEMENTATION TASK FORCE

June 2, 2022

By Scott Barkley Baptist Press NASHVILLE — A report issued Wednesday from the Sexual Abuse Task Force (SATF) includes “challenges” for Southern Baptist groups toward better abuse prevention policies as well as two recommendations, including the formation of a website to maintain a record of those credibly accused or convicted of sexual abuse. Those challenges included the request for a $3 million allocation to fund the implementation of sexual abuse

FAITH RIDERS TO SPONSOR ‘PRAYER RUMBLE’ IN MID-JUNE

June 1, 2022

Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — The Tennessee chapter of FAITH Riders will sponsor a “Prayer Rumble” from the western part of the state to the east on June 17-18. “FAITH Riders of Tennessee will be praying across the state of Tennessee along with other riders and friends,” said Jerry Jeter, a member of the Tennessee chapter and pastor of Pleasant View Baptist Church, Clarksville. “If there has ever been a

BLAYDES ADDS NEW MINISTRY ASSIGNMENT TO BUSY SCHEDULE

May 30, 2022

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — Donna Blaydes readily admits that it is hard for her to use that two-letter word — no — especially when it comes to serving her Lord. As a result, Blaydes was excited to accept a new assignment with the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board to go with her role as childhood specialist. Beginning in March, Blaydes is now the TBMB’s childhood/women’s

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FUNDING, POLITY REVISIONS MADE TO SEXUAL ABUSE TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS