FRANKLIN — The response by Tennessee Baptists disaster relief volunteers in recent days can best be summed up in one word: Extensive. That word applies to almost every aspect of the ongoing relief efforts — including the amount of time that the projects are going to take, the range of the impacted areas and the variety of assignments that the volunteers are being asked to do. Wes Jones, disaster relief
FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,521,831 through the Cooperative Program in September. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $31,664,140 through the CP giving channel. The amount is $85,206 or 0.3 percent below what was given at the same time last year. After 10 months of the 2023-24 budget year, CP gifts are $419,193 or 1.3 percent below budget needs.
FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,521,831 through the Cooperative Program in September. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $31,664,140 through the CP giving channel. The amount is $85,206 or 0.3 percent below what was given at the same time last year. After 10 months of the 2023-24 budget year, CP gifts are $419,193 or 1.3 percent below budget needs.
FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,521,831 through the Cooperative Program in September. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $31,664,140 through the CP giving channel. The amount is $85,206 or 0.3 percent below what was given at the same time last year. After 10 months of the 2023-24 budget year, CP gifts are $419,193 or 1.3 percent below budget needs.
FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,521,831 through the Cooperative Program in September. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $31,664,140 through the CP giving channel. The amount is $85,206 or 0.3 percent below what was given at the same time last year. After 10 months of the 2023-24 budget year, CP gifts are $419,193 or 1.3 percent below budget needs.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — International Mission Board trustees approved the appointment of 69 full-time, fully funded missionaries during their Sept. 25-26 meeting near Richmond, Virginia. Fifty-seven of the missionaries participated in a Sending Celebration hosted by First Baptist Church Park Street, Charlottesville — the historic church where the famous Southern Baptist missionary Lottie Moon was baptized. Trustee chairman Keith Evans from the Northwest Baptist Convention presided over the meeting. Nate Bishop,
FRANKLIN — The 2024 Summit: The Gathering of Tennessee Baptists is just around the corner and it promises to be one of the most unique annual meetings in recent years. Summit will take place Nov. 10-12 at Embassy Suites in Murfreesboro, the city in which the Tennessee Baptist Convention was established in 1874. The annual meeting will be unique in several ways, acknowledged Randy C. Davis, president and executive director
JACKSON — Union University president Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver encouraged local pastors and their wives to focus relentlessly, love deeply and commit completely as they shepherd their churches. “Brothers and sisters, what you do is great,” Oliver said. “It’s truly great, so remind yourself of that, and don’t ever forget it.” Oliver was the featured speaker at the university’s annual Pastors and Wives Appreciation Banquet Sept. 10 in the Carl
JOHNSON CITY — A simple phone conversation between Jonathan Chapman, collegiate ministry specialist at East Tennessee State University, and Troy Rust, director of missions for Holston Baptist Association, led to one of the largest-ever disaster relief training events in Tennessee. What’s more, the event at the ETSU Baptist Collegiate Ministry center on Oct. 3 was planned, promoted and executed in three days. Four hundred-plus participants registered for the training led
PIPERTON — Pastor Bobby Mullins posted these words on Facebook on Aug. 27, — “What if you only had one month to live? … What would you do to make the rest of your life really matter?” He had no idea he and his wife, Wanda, would lose their lives in a car accident just over a week later. In the days since, that Facebook post — which includes a
FRANKLIN — The response by Tennessee Baptists disaster relief volunteers in recent days can best be summed up in one word: Extensive. That word applies
FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,521,831 through the Cooperative Program in September. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $31,664,140 through the CP
FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,521,831 through the Cooperative Program in September. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $31,664,140 through the CP
FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,521,831 through the Cooperative Program in September. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $31,664,140 through the CP
FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,521,831 through the Cooperative Program in September. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $31,664,140 through the CP
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — International Mission Board trustees approved the appointment of 69 full-time, fully funded missionaries during their Sept. 25-26 meeting near Richmond, Virginia. Fifty-seven
FRANKLIN — The 2024 Summit: The Gathering of Tennessee Baptists is just around the corner and it promises to be one of the most unique
JACKSON — Union University president Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver encouraged local pastors and their wives to focus relentlessly, love deeply and commit completely as they
JOHNSON CITY — A simple phone conversation between Jonathan Chapman, collegiate ministry specialist at East Tennessee State University, and Troy Rust, director of missions for
PIPERTON — Pastor Bobby Mullins posted these words on Facebook on Aug. 27, — “What if you only had one month to live? … What