McLaurin grateful for experience he gained as TBMB staffer Editor’s Note: Former Tennessee Baptist Mission Board staff member Willie McLaurin was tapped as interim president/CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee on Feb. 1. Full story here.   By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] NASHVILLE — The significance of the timing of his selection as interim president/CEO of the Southern Baptist Executive Committee was not lost on

After one-year absence, bivocational pastors/wives gather again By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] PIGEON FORGE — While COVID-19 caused many events to be canceled in 2021, perhaps no one group was more affected than bivocational ministers and their wives. In order to help meet a need caused by the cancelation last year, the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board scheduled 13 small one-night events for bivocational pastors and their wives

After one-year absence, bivocational pastors/wives gather again By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] PIGEON FORGE — While COVID-19 caused many events to be canceled in 2021, perhaps no one group was more affected than bivocational ministers and their wives. In order to help meet a need caused by the cancelation last year, the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board scheduled 13 small one-night events for bivocational pastors and their wives

Conference attendees encouraged to be bold and act with urgency for lost  By Lonnie Wilkey & David Dawson Baptist and Reflector MURFREESBORO — After an absence of more than a decade, the State Evangelism Conference was “relaunched” this year. The two-day event, presented by the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board and hosted at New Vision Church in Murfreesboro on Jan. 30-31, featured a total of four worship sessions and a series

Excitement, energy mark the ‘relaunch’ of the state evangelism conference after hiatus  By David Dawson [email protected] MURFREESBORO — High-energy music. Motivational messages. Intensity and excitement among the attendees.  Sounds like a pep rally, right? Well, in a sense, that’s what the 2022 Tennessee State Evangelism Conference was designed to be — a pep rally for evangelism. But instead of school spirit, it was the Holy Spirit that permeated across the