Baptist & Reflector FRANKLIN — A series of listening sessions with Tennessee Baptist pastors and leaders with Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, has begun across the state. “Over the next six weeks, I will be in 24 different locations across our state in what we are calling Collaborative Listening Sessions,” Davis said.
Retired DOM reunites with woman he baptized in 1949 Baptist and Reflector JONESBORO, Ark. — In 1949, Raymond Atwood was a college student at Southern Baptist College (now Williams Baptist University) in Walnut Ridge, Ark. While in college he served as pastor of Big Creek Baptist Church in Hooker Switch, Ark. The church held a baptismal service in the Cash River, about one mile from the church, recalled Atwood, who
By Rachel Lynn Aldrich WORLD LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge in Arkansas blocked three new laws just before midnight Tuesday (July 23) that would protect unborn babies in the state. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker’s 14-day temporary restraining order stopped the laws from taking effect on Wednesday (July 24). The measures would have protected unborn babies after 18 weeks of pregnancy, required abortionists to be board-certified or board-eligible
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — During four years of caring for his mother with Alzheimer’s, Mike Glenn would stop on the way to his office and have coffee with her most every day. He noted the visits were sometimes “funny” and other times, “painful beyond belief.” Glenn began a Twitter series called “Coffee with Mom” “just to have a place to deal with the funny but painful, daily process of
Brentwood pastor shares about his mom’s disease in his new book about Alzheimer’s, dementia By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] BRENTWOOD — As a minister for more than 40 years, Mike Glenn walked through the valley of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease with many families over the years. But he admits that until you face it personally it is truly hard to understand what a family goes through. “Caring
LEADERS Grant Gaines, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Jackson, for the past eight years, has been called as senior pastor of Belle Aire Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, effective Aug. 4. Gaines is a graduate of Union University, Jackson and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. Gaines has served as an adjunct professor at both Union University and the Southern Seminary Extension Center in Jackson. He and his wife Melisa have
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] COOKEVILLE — Nancy Knowlton knows the pain and guilt associated with abortion. She has had two. Yet, she also knows God has forgiven her, and that is the story she openly shares as the director of the Cookeville Pregnancy Clinic, a nonprofit organization that seeks to “educate, empower and encourage women and men with life choices when facing an unplanned pregnancy.”
By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBMB [email protected] FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptists have the opportunity to “stand for life” in a new initiative launched by the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board on behalf of Tennessee Baptists. “I Stand for Life” is a petition campaign to garner thousands of signatures from Tennessee Baptists in an effort to let Tennessee’s lawmakers know that Tennessee Baptists would like to see legislation passed that protects
C-N news office JEFFERSON CITY — A Carson-Newman University incoming freshman died July 20 in an accident while on a trip to Guatemala. Seth Washam was killed due to an electrical short in a hotel swimming pool. His sister Emma, a rising C-N junior, was also injured in the incident. The two are the children of C-N alumni Shannon and Jean-Ann Washam of Knoxville. Jean-Ann serves as executive director of
By Baptist Press staff SCOTT DEPOT, W.Va. — William D. “Bill” Henard, executive director-treasurer of the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists since 2015, has accepted a call to pastor First Baptist Church in Athens, Tenn., the convention reported in a July 17 news release. In a letter to the administrative committee of the convention’s Executive Board, Henard stated, “I have made the decision that it is time for me
Baptist & Reflector FRANKLIN — A series of listening sessions with Tennessee Baptist pastors and leaders with Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of
Retired DOM reunites with woman he baptized in 1949 Baptist and Reflector JONESBORO, Ark. — In 1949, Raymond Atwood was a college student at Southern
By Rachel Lynn Aldrich WORLD LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge in Arkansas blocked three new laws just before midnight Tuesday (July 23) that
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — During four years of caring for his mother with Alzheimer’s, Mike Glenn would stop on the way to his office
Brentwood pastor shares about his mom’s disease in his new book about Alzheimer’s, dementia By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] BRENTWOOD — As
LEADERS Grant Gaines, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Jackson, for the past eight years, has been called as senior pastor of Belle Aire Baptist
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] COOKEVILLE — Nancy Knowlton knows the pain and guilt associated with abortion. She has had two. Yet,
By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBMB [email protected] FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptists have the opportunity to “stand for life” in a new initiative launched by
C-N news office JEFFERSON CITY — A Carson-Newman University incoming freshman died July 20 in an accident while on a trip to Guatemala. Seth Washam
By Baptist Press staff SCOTT DEPOT, W.Va. — William D. “Bill” Henard, executive director-treasurer of the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists since 2015, has