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BROWNSVILLE CHURCH COMPLETES RESTORATION DURING PANDEMIC

By Carolyn Tomlin Contributing writer, B&R BROWNSVILLE — Woodland Baptist Church, located in eastern Haywood County, has completed a restoration of the 100-year-old auditorium. After 13 months, the congregation moved back into the renovated auditorium in February of 2021.  Due to tithes, donations and other gifts, the renovation of Woodland Baptist is debt free. After 10 decades, the auditorium was in need of repair. The plaster was cracking and the

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MORRISTOWN PASTOR TO NOMINATE MIKE STONE AT SBC

Compiled from B&R, BP reports MORRISTOWN — Dean Haun announced May 24 that he will nominate Georgia pastor Mike Stone as president  of the Southern Baptist Convention during its annual meeting June 15-16 in Nashville. Georgia Baptist Convention president and pastor Kevin Williams announced in January that Stone, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Blackshear, Ga., and immediate past chairman of the SBC Executive Committee, would be nominated, but the

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SBC ELECTIONS NOT LACKING CANDIDATES IN 2021

By Jonathan Howe Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Some SBC Annual Meetings offer little speculation as to the outcomes of the election of officers. The 2021 Annual Meeting in Nashville will not be one of those. With just under a month left until official nominations are made, at least 15 potential nominees have been announced for various SBC-related offices. So far, there are four announced candidates for SBC president, five for

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ASSOCIATION PROVIDES ‘SAFE HOUSE’ IN LOUDON COUNTY

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] LENOIR CITY — When Phil Holmes became director of missions in Loudon County Baptist Association 10 years ago, the association owned a missionary house. It was a good idea but in the past 10 years it was used about four times, he said. “It was vacant more than it was occupied,” Holmes recalled. In the Spring of 2018, Holmes and some members

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GUIDESTONE TRUSTEES ELECT DILBECK TO PRESIDENT-ELECT ROLE

By Roy Hayhurst Director of Denominational and Public Relations , GuideStone Financial Resources DALLAS — D. Hance Dilbeck Jr. was unanimously elected GuideStone president-elect during a called meeting of the GuideStone Trustee Board on May 20. Dilbeck, executive director-treasurer of Oklahoma Baptists since 2018, accepted the call and gave thanks to the Lord, his family and trustees for the opportunity to serve at GuideStone. Dilbeck will serve alongside current GuideStone

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BCM LEADERS CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF COOPERATIVE MINISTRY, DISCUSS CHALLENGES

By David Dawson [email protected] HENDERSONVILLE — More than 600 Baptist Collegiate Ministry leaders, representing 35 states, recently gathered for the College Summit at First Baptist Church, Hendersonville. And boy, did they have a lot to talk about.  In additon to honoring and celebrating 100 years of Southern Baptist cooperative collegiate ministry, the attendees at the three-day event, held May 5-7, also reflected on the challenges of the past year. Last

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TENNESSEE PASTOR TO BE NOMINATED AS TREASURER OF SBC PASTORS’ CONFERENCE

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] CHATTANOOGA — Tennessee Baptist pastor Sam Greer will be nominated as treasurer of the 2022 Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference. Greer, pastor of Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga, will be nominated by Chuck Herring, pastor of First Baptist Church, Collierville. Greer surrendered to the ministry in 2003 when Herring was pastor of First Baptist Church, Richland, Miss. The nomination will take place Monday,

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TENNESSEE WMU STILL HAS VITAL ROLE, SAYS NEW PRESIDENT

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] CROSSVILLE — While many current members of Tennessee Woman’s Missionary Union grew up in churches that provided missions education for children, that was not the case for  Yolanda Heuser of Crossville, the 31st president of Tennessee WMU. Heuser grew up in another denomination. “While I did not grow up in missions education, quite the opposite, I do believe that my childhood did

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NEW WMU PRESIDENT SHARES GOALS

Baptist and Reflector CROSSVILLE — New Tennessee Woman’s Missionary Union president Yolanda Heuser shared her goals and vision for WMU as she begins her term of leadership. • “My number one goal is to show that WMU has a vital role in our churches and that missions education and missions work is vital in the upcoming generations,” she said. • “I also desire to help people understand missions work is

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ERLC’S MOORE RESIGNS; JOINS STAFF OF CHRISTIANITY TODAY

By George Schroeder Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Russell Moore is leaving the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, ending an occasionally controversial eight-year tenure, to take a role with Christianity Today. Moore, who has served as president of the ERLC since June 2013, announced Tuesday (May 18) he will begin a role this summer as a public theologian for what the magazine described as “a new Public Theology Project.” In a

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