By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] FRANKLIN — Last year Tennessee Baptist Convention churches embraced the Christmas Backpack Ministry in a huge way, observed Joe Sorah, compassion ministries specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. Tennessee Baptists provided more than 3,500 backpacks in 2018 for the ministry which serves children and families in the Appalachian area of Tennessee.
Baptist & Reflector FRANKLIN — A series of listening sessions with Tennessee Baptist pastors and leaders with Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, has begun across the state. “Over the next six weeks, I will be in 24 different locations across our state in what we are calling Collaborative Listening Sessions,” Davis said.
Retired DOM reunites with woman he baptized in 1949 Baptist and Reflector JONESBORO, Ark. — In 1949, Raymond Atwood was a college student at Southern Baptist College (now Williams Baptist University) in Walnut Ridge, Ark. While in college he served as pastor of Big Creek Baptist Church in Hooker Switch, Ark. The church held a baptismal service in the Cash River, about one mile from the church, recalled Atwood, who
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — During four years of caring for his mother with Alzheimer’s, Mike Glenn would stop on the way to his office and have coffee with her most every day. He noted the visits were sometimes “funny” and other times, “painful beyond belief.” Glenn began a Twitter series called “Coffee with Mom” “just to have a place to deal with the funny but painful, daily process of
Brentwood pastor shares about his mom’s disease in his new book about Alzheimer’s, dementia By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] BRENTWOOD — As a minister for more than 40 years, Mike Glenn walked through the valley of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease with many families over the years. But he admits that until you face it personally it is truly hard to understand what a family goes through. “Caring
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] COOKEVILLE — Nancy Knowlton knows the pain and guilt associated with abortion. She has had two. Yet, she also knows God has forgiven her, and that is the story she openly shares as the director of the Cookeville Pregnancy Clinic, a nonprofit organization that seeks to “educate, empower and encourage women and men with life choices when facing an unplanned pregnancy.”
By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBMB [email protected] FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptists have the opportunity to “stand for life” in a new initiative launched by the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board on behalf of Tennessee Baptists. “I Stand for Life” is a petition campaign to garner thousands of signatures from Tennessee Baptists in an effort to let Tennessee’s lawmakers know that Tennessee Baptists would like to see legislation passed that protects
C-N news office JEFFERSON CITY — A Carson-Newman University incoming freshman died July 20 in an accident while on a trip to Guatemala. Seth Washam was killed due to an electrical short in a hotel swimming pool. His sister Emma, a rising C-N junior, was also injured in the incident. The two are the children of C-N alumni Shannon and Jean-Ann Washam of Knoxville. Jean-Ann serves as executive director of
By Timothy Cockes Baptist Press JACKSON, Tenn. — Exploration is “a part of what God has built into us.” Physics professor Bill Nettles said the moon landing, making its 50th anniversary this week, should help believers “realize that as image bearers of our heavenly Father, we are created as creative, imaginative people.”
By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] NASHVILLE — One church had the labor force; another church had the funds. Put the two together and Liberty Baptist Church in Nashville has some renovated facilities they could not otherwise have had. Ray Fairchild, pastor of Liberty Baptist Church and a former Southern Baptist missionary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, said the work performed by Garrison Baptist Church in Dayton and funded in part by
By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] FRANKLIN — Last year Tennessee Baptist Convention churches embraced the Christmas Backpack Ministry in a huge way, observed Joe Sorah, compassion
Baptist & Reflector FRANKLIN — A series of listening sessions with Tennessee Baptist pastors and leaders with Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of
Retired DOM reunites with woman he baptized in 1949 Baptist and Reflector JONESBORO, Ark. — In 1949, Raymond Atwood was a college student at Southern
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — During four years of caring for his mother with Alzheimer’s, Mike Glenn would stop on the way to his office
Brentwood pastor shares about his mom’s disease in his new book about Alzheimer’s, dementia By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] BRENTWOOD — As
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] COOKEVILLE — Nancy Knowlton knows the pain and guilt associated with abortion. She has had two. Yet,
By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBMB [email protected] FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptists have the opportunity to “stand for life” in a new initiative launched by
C-N news office JEFFERSON CITY — A Carson-Newman University incoming freshman died July 20 in an accident while on a trip to Guatemala. Seth Washam
By Timothy Cockes Baptist Press JACKSON, Tenn. — Exploration is “a part of what God has built into us.” Physics professor Bill Nettles said the
By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] NASHVILLE — One church had the labor force; another church had the funds. Put the two together and Liberty Baptist Church