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

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

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

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. 

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.