WMU hosts event online; groups gather to watch By David Dawson [email protected] FRANKLIN — This year’s WMU Get-Together & Connection featured a significant change in venue.  Instead of gathering in Gatlinburg, as attendees have traditionally done since the 1990s, this year’s event was held in homes, churches and various other meeting places across the state.  For safety reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Get-Together & Connection — which is normally

Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — Due to the lingering effects of COVID-19, the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board had to cancel its annual retreat for bivocational ministers and wives, normally held in January each year. “In lieu of that, we began working with our bivocational ministry council at the first of the year to provide a series of ‘Banquet and a Program’ events for bivocational ministers and their wives during April

More than 200 churches host YEC ‘watch parties’  By David Dawson [email protected] FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Mission Board youth specialist Jay Barbier didn’t have to wait long to find out about the effectiveness of this year’s Youth Evangelism Conference. Barbier’s phone started buzzing with text messages and voicemails just moments after the conclusion of the conference, which was streamed digitally across the state on the night of March 13.