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HARDWICK TO BE NOMINATED FOR TBC PRESIDENCY

FRANKLIN — Nashville pastor Jay Hardwick of Forest Hills Baptist Church will be nominated for the presidency of the Tennessee Baptist Convention at the annual meeting held Nov. 12-15 in Chattanooga.  Hardwick will be nominated by Corey Cain, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Seymour. Hardwick, who became senior pastor of Forest Hills in December of 2020, currently serves as chairman of the Acts 2:17 Initiative Vision Team and is

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SEND RELIEF PARTNERS HELP MOROCCAN EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS

MARRAKESH, Morocco — As early death toll counts have surpassed 1,300, Send Relief partners in Morocco are already meeting needs in the aftermath of the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the African nation on Friday night. “Send Relief’s partners in Morocco immediately began providing urgently needed help and supplies within hours of the earthquake hitting this area,” said Bryant Wright, president of Send Relief. “As you can imagine, the focus right

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DR FLOOD RECOVERY TEAMS NEEDED IN RESPONSE TO HURRICANE IDALIA

MOUNT JULIET — Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief has been asked to send flood recovery teams to assist victims of Hurricane Idalia, which swept through Florida and portions of Georgia and South Carolina last month. Flood recovery teams are being recruited to go as early as next week, said Wes Jones, disaster relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.  Jones said teams who are available to go should contact the

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PRAYER GATHERING MAKES IMPACT IN BLUE OVAL CITY

STANTON — From Ray Ellington’s perspective, Ford’s Blue Oval City has changed everything about Haywood County. But it hasn’t changed his faithfulness to the Lord. In the next few years, 90,000 people are expected to move to West Tennessee to work at the plant which is slated to become the largest automobile production facility in the nation in 2025. That’s a lot of new customers for The Fork Restaurant, which

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RA CAMP-O-REE REMAINS A LIFE-CHANGING EVENT

LINDEN — In the early 1980s, Brian Holt became a Christian as a boy at Royal Ambassador Camp-O-Ree. Now, Holt is the RA state coordinator and he brings his son Sam to the same weekend camp that changed his life. “I love this weekend because it’s an opportunity for me to get closer to God, and there’s no better place to get closer to God than through His nature,” said

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BAPTISMS ON THE RISE ACROSS TENNESSEE, AROUND THE NATION IN RECENT WEEKS

HENDERSONVILLE — A baptismal outpouring at Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville on the morning of Aug. 20 reflects similar reports from around the country. Long Hollow celebrated 136 spontaneous baptisms that morning, leading pastor Robby Gallaty to call the events “miraculous” in a Facebook post.   That same evening, during a women’s event that included speaker Lisa Harper, approximately 50 more were baptized, according to a person in attendance. 

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TENNESCENE: AUG. 30

LEADERS C. Scott Shepherd, worship and music specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board for the past six years, has resigned, effective Sept. 5, to become associate director of Renaissance at Bethel University in McKenzie. A graduate of Shorter University, Rome, Ga., and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., Shepherd earned his doctorate in worship studies from the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies. He is president of

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DR TEAMS ON ALERT FOR GEORGIA AND FLORIDA

Wes Jones, disaster relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, announced on Aug. 30 that the following teams/volunteers are being placed “on alert” for possible deployment to Georgia or Florida: chaplains, assessors, flood recovery, shower/laundry, IMT, and feeding teams. “We are asking volunteers to begin to plan for possible response as needed,” Jones said. 

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GROVE HILL EXPERIENCING MONTHS-LONG MOVEMENT

CHAPEL HILL — God has been stirring in the hearts of the members of Grove Hill Church in Chapel Hill.  Subsequently, the water in the swimming pool at pastor Ridley Barron’s house has been stirring, too. Throughout the summer, a series of unique baptism services have been held in the Barrons’ pool, where church members and family members have lined the edges of the water to see the gentle dunk.

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DR VOLUNTEERS ASSIST TORNADO VICTIMS IN KNOXVILLE AREA

KNOXVILLE — Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers with Knox County Association of Baptists were on the scene soon after tornadoes hit portions of the city. Volunteers from Jefferson County Baptist Association and Nolachucky Baptist Association also assisted in the hardest hit areas of the storm which hit in mid-August, according to Wes Jones, disaster relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. “When a disaster happens locally, I do not

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TENNESCENE: AUG. 30

LEADERS C. Scott Shepherd, worship and music specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board for the past six years, has resigned, effective Sept. 5, to

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