BP editor’s note: Student Baptist Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention is Oct. 29. NASHVILLE — It’s a familiar scene for Jay Barbier. He’s a youth minister, driving down the road to a speaking engagement where he will preach to a room full of students. His teenage son Caleb is with him, and Jay uses Caleb as a sounding board for his sermon. “I would practice my sermons on him
NASHVILLE — The search team tasked with finding a new president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee is on schedule to present a candidate at the SBC EC’s February 2024 meeting. In a statement released Oct. 23, search team chairman Neal Hughes said the team had been “blessed” with a “harvest of resumes.” “All candidates participated in the exercise of a written questionnaire,” he said. “Each candidate
FRANKLIN — “Every” is the key word in the recommendation the Acts 2:17 Initiative Task Force will present to messengers during the annual meeting of the Tennessee Baptist Convention at The Summit on Nov. 12-15 at the Chattanooga Convention Center. The task force was launched at last year’s Summit in Cordova and the TBC president appointed the task force, led by Nashville pastor Jay Hardwick, for the purpose “of engaging
JACKSON — More than 250 youth, parents and church youth leaders attended the EQUIP Youth Apologetics Conference at Union University’s Carl Grant Events Center last month. Hosted by Union University’s School of Theology and Missions in partnership with the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, the conference sought to equip middle schoolers, high schoolers and recent high school graduates to properly wrestle with doubt. Four talks throughout the day sought to answer
KNOXVILLE — A 12-member team from First Baptist Church, Knoxville, that was in Tel Aviv when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, is safely out of the country. WATE-TV in Knoxville reported the group was able to leave with an assist from the U.S. Embassy. Brent McDougal, senior pastor of First Baptist, told the television station, “there’s a sense of great relief.”
JEFFERSON CITY — A child-sized ring, measuring only about one centimeter in diameter, tells the story of a distant past, but also the future of a university program. The gold circular object inlaid with a turquoise stone, is one of several items discovered during an initial groundbreaking excavation project in the northern Judean Desert — more specifically, the ruins of Herod the Great’s desert fortress, Hyrcania. Carson-Newman University, in support
NEWPORT — Just to be perfectly clear — Campers on Mission are not part-time help looking for a summer job, says Linda King of Woodburn, Ky. “We don’t come in as part-time helpers. We come in to take the load off of the staff for just a little while and to walk alongside them and be like the people who helped Moses raise up his staff,” she affirmed. “We help
FRANKLIN — Mike Puckett, the associate pastor and education director at Grassland Heights Baptist Church, Franklin, could be called the Swiss Army knife of ministry. For the past three-plus decades, Puckett has happily and gratefully served the Lord in all kinds of ways — ranging from student ministry to worship leader to administrative work and all in between — at Grassland Heights. “The call
PORTLAND, Ore. — Gateway Seminary has initiated an executive transition plan to elect a new seminary president. Current President, Jeff Iorg, asked the board of trustees to begin the transition process at the board’s Oct. 10, 2023, meeting in Portland. Iorg will continue to lead the seminary through the executive search process. “Due to the excellent leadership of our board, the strength and stability of our faculty, and our overall
FRANKLIN — At least three Tennessee Baptist church teams were in Israel on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants brutally attacked the country, which has retaliated with airstrikes on Gaza. As of Oct. 11, the reported death toll was near 2,000 people killed and 2,700 injured in Israel and at least 900 people killed and 4,500 injured in Gaza. Two churches — Sunnyside Baptist in Kingsport and First Baptist, Dyer —
BP editor’s note: Student Baptist Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention is Oct. 29. NASHVILLE — It’s a familiar scene for Jay Barbier. He’s a
NASHVILLE — The search team tasked with finding a new president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee is on schedule to present
FRANKLIN — “Every” is the key word in the recommendation the Acts 2:17 Initiative Task Force will present to messengers during the annual meeting of
JACKSON — More than 250 youth, parents and church youth leaders attended the EQUIP Youth Apologetics Conference at Union University’s Carl Grant Events Center last
KNOXVILLE — A 12-member team from First Baptist Church, Knoxville, that was in Tel Aviv when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, is safely
JEFFERSON CITY — A child-sized ring, measuring only about one centimeter in diameter, tells the story of a distant past, but also the future of
NEWPORT — Just to be perfectly clear — Campers on Mission are not part-time help looking for a summer job, says Linda King of Woodburn,
FRANKLIN — Mike Puckett, the associate pastor and education director at Grassland Heights Baptist Church, Franklin, could be called the Swiss Army knife of ministry.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Gateway Seminary has initiated an executive transition plan to elect a new seminary president. Current President, Jeff Iorg, asked the board of
FRANKLIN — At least three Tennessee Baptist church teams were in Israel on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants brutally attacked the country, which has retaliated