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.
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.”
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,
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
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
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
From B&R staff reports SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Union University women’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Division II Final Four for the first time in the program’s history.
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.
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).
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.
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector TRENTON — A West Tennessee Baptist pastor who wants small and medium membership churches to have a voice
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — During her 21 years on staff of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, Lana Rose has worked
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.
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
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,
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
From B&R staff reports SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Union University women’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Division II Final Four for
By Julie McGowan IMB public relations manager RICHMOND, Va. — International Mission Board missionaries Dr. Randy Arnett, 62, and Kathy Arnett, 61, died March 14,
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
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