Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — Due to the lingering effects of COVID-19, the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board had to cancel its annual retreat for bivocational ministers and wives, normally held in January each year. “In lieu of that, we began working with our bivocational ministry council at the first of the year to provide a series of ‘Banquet and a Program’ events for bivocational ministers and their wives during April

More than 200 churches host YEC ‘watch parties’  By David Dawson [email protected] FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Mission Board youth specialist Jay Barbier didn’t have to wait long to find out about the effectiveness of this year’s Youth Evangelism Conference. Barbier’s phone started buzzing with text messages and voicemails just moments after the conclusion of the conference, which was streamed digitally across the state on the night of March 13.  

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] HARRISON — On Oct. 2, 1997, God called Charlie Brown (a Baptist layman, not the Peanuts cartoon version) home to heaven, leaving behind a widow and two small children, not to mention a mortgage on a house he and his wife had recently purchased. Though it has been almost 24 years ago, his widow, Angie Fielden (since remarried), still gets emotional as