EC EXEC. VP AUGIE BOTO NAMED INTERIM PRESIDENT
April 9, 2018
By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE — D. August (Augie) Boto has been named interim president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE — D. August (Augie) Boto has been named interim president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
Baptist and Reflector JEFFERSON CITY — An estate gift of more than $1 million to Carson-Newman University will allow the school to provide a first for future Carson-Newman students. A gift from the late Anna Lee and Harrell Pendleton of Morristown endows a full scholarship for four years for one student.
Editor’s Note: View the Cooperative Program video featuring David Green at the end of this article. By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector GREENEVILLE — First Baptist Church, Greeneville, has been giving through the Cooperative Program since the Southern Baptist funding channel was established in 1926. First Baptist currently gives 13 percent of its undesignated receipts through the Cooperative Program, said David Green, who has served as pastor of the
By David Dawson Baptist & Reflector MOUNT JULIET — Although there are many different components that go into Disciple Now weekend, John Oliver essentially captured the essence of the ministry in just one sentence. “The students are getting saturated with the Word of God,” he said.
Baptist and Reflector KNOXVILLE — At a time when many students were thinking about vacations, a large number of University of Tennessee Baptist Collegiate Ministries and Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) students were planning how they could help Puerto Ricans recovering from two category 5 hurricanes.
By Juliana Wilson TN WMU Communications & Childhood Missions Specialist, TBMB GATLINBURG — Connection 2018, a missions event for girls in grades 7 through 12, took place March 16-18 at the Gatlinburg Convention Center in conjunction with Missions Get-Together. The group of 272 girls and leaders were among 1,495 total event attendees, including volunteers, exhibitors, personnel and staff who attended Connection and Missions Get-Together. The event centered around the theme
Attendees encouraged to stay engaged all year By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector GATLINBURG — From Vickie Anderson’s perspective, the most important piece of WMU’s annual Missions Get-Together and Connection conference doesn’t occur during the weekend of the event. Rather, it is the days, weeks and months after the conference that are the most significant, and the most satisfying, to Anderson, the executive director of Tennessee WMU. “For me, the
By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector GATLINBURG — According to recent data released by the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, there are 65.6 million displaced individuals, or refugees, in the world today. It is the highest number in recorded history and is growing by hundreds of thousands each year. Sadly, when hearing numbers like that, there is a tendency to forget that there are faces behind the figures. It almost becomes
Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines has named members of the Committee on Resolutions for the June 12-13 SBC annual meeting in Dallas. Jason Duesing of Missouri was named as the committee’s chairman by Gaines.Duesing is provost and associate professor of historical theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City and a member of Antioch Bible Baptist Church in Gladstone, Mo.
ASSOCIATIONS Lawrence County Baptist Association is sponsoring “Returning to Holiness Through Spiritual Renewal” April 22-25. Sessions and locations include Summertown Baptist Church, Summertown, April 21, 7 p.m.; April 22, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.; First Baptist Church, Loretto, 6:30 p.m., April 23; Leoma Baptist Church, Leoma, 6:30 p.m., April 24; and Macedonia Baptist Church, Lawrenceburg, 6:30 p.m., April 25. Gregory Frizzell, founder and president
By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE — D. August (Augie) Boto has been named interim president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
Baptist and Reflector JEFFERSON CITY — An estate gift of more than $1 million to Carson-Newman University will allow the school to provide a first
Editor’s Note: View the Cooperative Program video featuring David Green at the end of this article. By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector GREENEVILLE —
By David Dawson Baptist & Reflector MOUNT JULIET — Although there are many different components that go into Disciple Now weekend, John Oliver essentially captured
Baptist and Reflector KNOXVILLE — At a time when many students were thinking about vacations, a large number of University of Tennessee Baptist Collegiate Ministries
By Juliana Wilson TN WMU Communications & Childhood Missions Specialist, TBMB GATLINBURG — Connection 2018, a missions event for girls in grades 7 through 12,
Attendees encouraged to stay engaged all year By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector GATLINBURG — From Vickie Anderson’s perspective, the most important piece of WMU’s
By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector GATLINBURG — According to recent data released by the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, there are 65.6 million displaced individuals,
Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines has named members of the Committee on Resolutions for the June 12-13 SBC annual meeting
ASSOCIATIONS Lawrence County Baptist Association is sponsoring “Returning to Holiness Through Spiritual Renewal” April 22-25. Sessions and locations include Summertown Baptist Church, Summertown, April 21,