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TENNESSEAN RALLIES SMALL CHURCH MESSENGERS

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector TRENTON — A West Tennessee Baptist pastor who wants small and medium membership churches to have a voice in the denomination is rallying churches to send messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention to be held June 12-13 in Dallas.

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TBMB’S ROSE REFLECTS ON HER ‘FIRST LOVE’

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — During her 21 years on staff of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, Lana Rose has worked in a number of ministry areas, but when “push comes to shove,” she admits that working with church secretaries/administrative assistants over the years has been her “first love.”

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TENNESCENE MAR. 21-APR. 3

EVENTS The Flintville Community Revival will be held March 25-30 at 7 p.m. each night. A tent will be set up across from Flintville School. A different pastor will speak each night: Chester Slayton, Pleasant Grove Baptist, March 25; Milton Martin, Pleasant Hill Baptist, March 26; Josh Moran, First Baptist Church, Flintville, March 27; Ian Bloxham, Lincoln Baptist, March 28; Winfred Slayton, Gum Springs Baptist, March 29; and Don Pierson,

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GAINES ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON SEVERAL TOUGH TOPICS

By Diana Chandler Baptist Press MEMPHIS — Loving your neighbor as yourself is a sure path to overcoming racial prejudice, Southern Baptist women’s minister Donna Gaines said in the March cover article of Today’s Christian Living magazine. “When we love our neighbor, that erases racial prejudice,” Gaines said in the cover story. “If we were all actually doing that, we’d be able to turn the world upside down just like

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SHINGLETON REJOICES IN YEC’S FAR-REACHING IMPACT

By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — Sitting in the corner booth of the breakroom at the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board’s Church Support Center, Kent Shingleton occasionally scratched his goatee and broke into a chuckle while reflecting on his two-decade tenure as the coordinator of the Youth Evangelism Conference. Shingleton said he had a deep drawer of stories he could share — some funny, some touching and some truly

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STAYING TRUE, STAYING STRONG

YEC celebrates 50 years of life-changing decisions, remains focused on gospel By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — Keith Watson has seen the Youth Evangelism Conference from almost every angle. He first started going to the event as a boy in the 1970s, and has rarely missed the annual gathering in the years since. Watson, 53, traveled to downtown Nashville again this year to be a part of the

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IMB MISSIONARIES DIE FROM INJURIES AFTER ACCIDENT IN AFRICA

By Julie McGowan IMB public relations manager RICHMOND, Va. — International Mission Board missionaries Dr. Randy Arnett, 62, and Kathy Arnett, 61, died March 14, 2018, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Missouri-native missionaries served as theological education strategists for Africa. 

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WILKEY DISCUSSES FUTURE OF STATE NEWSPAPERS AT TBHS MEETING

By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE — In an era of shrinking newspaper readership, Baptist state papers retain a viable path forward as “niche publications” with strong online and print presence, state paper editor Lonnie Wilkey told the Tennessee Baptist Historical Society (TBHS).

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ARLINGTON STAR DRIVEN BY FAITH

By Bill Sorrell Contributing writer, B&R ARLINGTON — Tate Kolwyck is a multi-sport star at Arlington High School and has signed to play baseball with perennial national power Vanderbilt University in Nashville. But there is more to Kolwyck than just his impressive on-the-field accomplishments. 

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