News

ISRAEL TRIP STRENGTHENS BONDS WITH STATE DOMs

February 12, 2018

By Nathan Handley JACKSON  —  Union University and the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board partnered to send 25 directors of missions to Israel for the first time in January. Union University President Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver led the trip alongside Nathan Finn, dean of Union’s School of Theology and Missions, and Ernest Easley, professor of evangelism at Union. Easley said he decided he wanted to send these directors of missions to

Read More...

‘ROLLING’ RIGHT ALONG

February 9, 2018

The dates that helped shape Rolling Hills Community Church Fall of 2002: God leads Jeff Simmons and a few others to plant what is now “Rolling Hills Community Church.” It begins with a core team of 15 people gathering in the Alara Farms apartment clubhouse on Thursday nights (photo on right). During this time, the church develops its philosophies and begins its dedication to missions by sending a team of

Read More...

BUILT ON FAITHFULNESS, MIRACLES

February 9, 2018

By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector Thriving now, Rolling Hills Community Church started as small church plant FRANKLIN — Jeff Simmons wasn’t so sure he wanted to start a church. He wasn’t convinced that people would come, and he wasn’t certain the church would ever get off the ground. Then God brought something to his heart that completely changed his perspective. “God reminded me that he hasn’t called us to

Read More...

TBC CP GIFTS UP

February 8, 2018

Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $3,416,389 through the Cooperative Program in January. For the year-to-date, Cooperative Program gifts total $9,263,010. After the first quarter of the 2017 fiscal year, gifts are $233,474 or 2.6 percent more than was given at the same time last year. CP gifts also are $638,010 or 7.4 percent above budget needs.

Read More...

BEAR CREEK BAPTIST SUFFERS ‘TOTAL LOSS’

February 8, 2018

Fire destroys building; congregation stays strong By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector PARSONS — On the night of Jan. 21, Adam Wood, the pastor of Bear Creek Baptist Church in Parsons, was making his normal drive home after a normal Sunday night service and business meeting. Then things took a very abnormal turn. Around the midway mark of his roughly 20-minute commute home, Wood received a phone call from one

Read More...

TENNESCENE FEB. 7-20

February 8, 2018

LEADERS Bob Brown, executive director of Lakeway Christian Schools, Morristown, is serving as interim pastor of First Baptist Church, Pigeon Forge. He formerly served on the staff of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. Scott Patty, founding pastor of Grace Community Church, Nashville, has written Words of Grace: A 100 Day Devotional. The book is a pastor’s encouragement, written with the congregation in mind, to build a life centered on God’s

Read More...

TENNESSEE PASTORS ‘PAID A BIG PRICE’

February 7, 2018

By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Striving for racial reconciliation was costly for some Southern Baptist pastors, (including two who served in Tennessee) in the 1950s through the 1970s. It cost Jack Kwok his property and Paul Turner a beating by angry segregationists. But Kwok, who has served as executive director of the State Convention of Baptists in Ohio since 1996, says the price pastors and other ministers paid

Read More...

SENIOR ADULT CONVERSIONS ON THE RISE?

February 7, 2018

By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE — When evangelist Phil Waldrep agreed to preach a revival at a nursing home, he didn’t expect a huge response. After all, he reasoned, aren’t most older people already Christians? But of the 40-60 nursing home residents who attended the services, 21 made a profession of faith in Christ as their Lord and Savior, and about 10 were later baptized at a local church.

Read More...

AFTER ’08 TORNADO, UNION WAS ‘UNITED AS NEVER BEFORE’

February 6, 2018

Nathan Handley & Tim Ellsworth Baptist Press JACKSON, Tenn. — At the 10-year point since a tornado devastated the campus, Union University marked the anniversary with a day of activities Feb. 2 featuring former administrators, students and others closely involved with the event. Former Union President David S. Dockery, in a Founders’ Day chapel address, spoke on providence, hope and unity the university experienced from the Feb. 5, 2008, tornado.

Read More...

TBC CP GIFTS UP

February 8, 2018

Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $3,416,389 through the Cooperative Program in January. For the year-to-date, Cooperative Program gifts total $9,263,010.

Read More »

TENNESCENE FEB. 7-20

February 8, 2018

LEADERS Bob Brown, executive director of Lakeway Christian Schools, Morristown, is serving as interim pastor of First Baptist Church, Pigeon Forge. He formerly served on

Read More »
Subscribe
Advertise
Classifieds
About

Popular Posts

Recent Posts