Tennessee

BAPTISTS RALLY AROUND HISPANIC FAMILIES

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BEAN STATION — Tennessee Baptists are ministering to families affected by the raid on a Bean Station slaughterhouse on April 5. Federal agents raided Southeastern Provisions, a cattle slaughterhouse in Grainger County, as part of a probe on allegations that the company was paying undocumented immigrants cash to avoid paying $2.5 million in payroll taxes over the past three years, according to the

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TRAGEDY LEADS PASTOR’S WIFE TO SHARE STORY

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector GREENBRIER — By her own admission, Kim Harmon led a “fairy tale” life. She was reared in a pastor’s home and later married and became a pastor’s wife. And even though she had chosen a career in law enforcement which can have its “ups and downs,” Harmon had not experienced a true crisis in her life. At least not until she received a

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WHY AREN’T CHURCHES HAVING REVIVALS?

Tennessee Baptist vocational evangelists offer their opinions on revivals and evangelism By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector JACKSON — In a day when the word “revival” is making a comeback, usually in the secular sense, fewer and fewer Southern Baptist churches are having multi-day revivals. And, even one-day “harvest revivals” aren’t as in demand as they once were. As a result, the number of vocational evangelists across the Southern

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C-N RECEIVES $1 MILLION GIFT

Baptist and Reflector JEFFERSON CITY —  An estate gift of more than $1 million to Carson-Newman University will allow the school to provide a first for future Carson-Newman students. A gift from the late Anna Lee and Harrell Pendleton of Morristown endows a full scholarship for four years for one student.

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GIVING A PART OF PASTOR’S, CHURCH’S DNA

Editor’s Note: View the Cooperative Program video featuring David Green at the end of this article. By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector GREENEVILLE — First Baptist Church, Greeneville, has been giving through the Cooperative Program since the Southern Baptist funding channel was established in 1926. First Baptist currently gives 13 percent of its undesignated receipts through the Cooperative Program, said David Green, who has served as pastor of the

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DISCIPLE NOW STILL CHALLENGING STUDENTS

By David Dawson Baptist & Reflector MOUNT  JULIET — Although there are many different components that go into Disciple Now weekend, John Oliver essentially captured the essence of the ministry in just one sentence. “The students are getting saturated with the Word of God,” he said.

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PARTNERING TOGETHER FOR KINGDOM WORK

Baptist and Reflector KNOXVILLE — At a time when many students were thinking about vacations, a large number of University of Tennessee Baptist Collegiate Ministries and Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) students were planning how they could help Puerto Ricans recovering from two category 5 hurricanes.

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GIRLS CHALLENGED TO STAND FIRM AT CONNECTION

By Juliana Wilson TN WMU Communications & Childhood Missions Specialist, TBMB GATLINBURG — Connection 2018, a missions event for girls in grades 7 through 12, took place March 16-18 at the Gatlinburg Convention Center in conjunction with Missions Get-Together. The group of 272 girls and leaders were among 1,495 total event attendees, including volunteers, exhibitors, personnel and staff who attended Connection and Missions Get-Together. The event centered around the theme

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WMU EVENT LASTS BEYOND CONFERENCE

Attendees encouraged to stay engaged all year By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector GATLINBURG — From Vickie Anderson’s perspective, the most important piece of WMU’s annual Missions Get-Together and Connection conference doesn’t occur during the weekend of the event. Rather, it is the days, weeks and months after the conference that are the most significant, and the most satisfying, to Anderson, the executive director of Tennessee WMU. “For me, the

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REFUGEE EXHIBIT CREATES PERSPECTIVE

By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector GATLINBURG — According to recent data released by the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, there are 65.6 million displaced individuals, or refugees, in the world today. It is the highest number in recorded history and is growing by hundreds of thousands each year. Sadly, when hearing numbers like that, there is a tendency to forget that there are faces behind the figures. It almost becomes

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