By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] KNOXVILLE — Tennessee Baptists attending the All Nations Worship Celebration received a glimpse of what heaven will look like. About 700 people representing 60 ethnic groups gathered at Black Oak Heights Baptist Church in Knoxville Nov. 17 for a night of worship. It was the third All Nations Worship Celebration held in conjunction with the opening night of Summit, but the first one held in Knoxville,

FBC Cleveland hosts ‘multi-generational’ service-day ministry By David Dawson [email protected] CLEVELAND — Jordan Easley, senior pastor at First Baptist Church, Cleveland, has developed a radical, visionary, outside-the-box evangelism strategy at his church.  It’s called — the Great Commission.  “Revolutionary, right?” said Easley. Although Easley was being tongue-in-cheek about the newness of the concept, he is completely serious when it comes to making sure that the Great Commission — found in

Pattersons step down from Copper Basin crisis center after three decades By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] DUCKTOWN — For years, Al and Margaret Patterson have been the couple families in the Copper Basin region of Tennessee turned to when they had nowhere else to go. The Pattersons, in turn, would point those families to their one, true hope — Jesus. For more than a hundred years the Copper Basin (located in