Tennessee

ASSOCIATION PROVIDES TAX FILING SERVICE

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector CLEVELAND — For the seventh year about 10 volunteers of the CrossNet Baptist Network (formerly Bradley Baptist Association) will help about 200 citizens here file their annual income tax with the Internal Revenue Service. The service — the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance — is free which saves the people coming to use the service the filing fee charged by a company

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SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE: A YEAR-ROUND CONCERN

Southern Baptist churches will observe Sanctity of Human Life Sunday Jan. 22 By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Baptists and Christians are still uncomfortable talking about sex, sexual issues, and abortion but that should change to protect unborn babies and to be involved in ministry and missions in today’s world, said three Tennessee Baptist women who are directors of pregnancy crisis centers. For instance, many

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MISSIONS A WAY OF LIFE FOR FOOTBALL PLAYER

By Bill Sorrell Contributing Writer, Baptist and Reflector McKENZIE — A Cuban Christian gave Jeffery Johnson the shirt off his back. While on a missions trip to Cuba last March, Johnson met Eduardo, a married man in his mid-30s with two children. “We had a bond. We got to spend so much time together. At a going-away party I wanted to give him something,” said Johnson, a center on Bethel

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TBC CP GIFTS AHEAD OF NEW BUDGET

Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $3,234,452 through the Cooperative Program in December. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given a total of $6,158,716 to fund missions and ministries in Tennessee and around the world. After two months of the 2016-17 budget year, Cooperative Program gifts are up $8,571 or 0.1 percent over the same time frame last year.

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TOP WEBSITE STORIES IN 2016

Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Interest in the Baptist and Reflector website (baptistandreflector.org) gained momentum in 2016. During the past year the website had 147,536 visitor sessions with 84,450 visitors and 270,605 page views. “One of the significant things  to  note about the stories listed is that many of them were breaking news stories where we were able to utilize the paper’s online version to quickly get news out to

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NAME CHANGE, FIRES TOP STORIES IN 2016

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — There was no shortage of news in the Tennessee Baptist Convention in 2016. The story that garnered the most national attention occurred Nov. 28 when fires swept across Sevier County, primarily in Gatlinburg, leaving 14 people dead, injuring at least 160 others, and damaging or destroying 2,400 structures including three Tennessee Baptist churches in Gatlinburg — Roaring Fork Baptist Church, Banner

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TENNESSEE MINISTERS CALL FOR COOPERATION IN OPEN LETTER

By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Controversy surrounding ethicist Russell Moore’s past comments on President-elect Donald Trump has led three Tennessee Baptists — all under the age of 40 — to issue an open letter calling “conservative resurgence generation and their protégés” to “be the statesmen we need them to be in this season of denominational tension.” Jonathan Akin, Nathan Finn, and Micah Fries wrote in a Dec. 21

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DR VOLUNTEERS SHOW CHRIST’S LOVE

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector GATLINBURG — One month after a devastating fire swept through the Smoky Mountains, Gatlinburg residents are still picking up the pieces, literally. Hundreds of Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers have provided assistance since relief efforts began. Volunteers have done everything from providing hot meals and sack lunches to clearing charred trees off property and some demolition to sifting through ashes and debris in

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TN SENATOR CHALLENGES UNION GRADUATES TO BE COMMUNITY SERVANTS

By Tim Ellsworth Associate VP for Communications, Union University JACKSON — Sen. Bob Corker in his Dec. 17 commencement address advised Union University graduates to master a skill, to create a bold vision in their undertakings and to give back to their communities. “You don’t have to be a United States Senator or a mayor or in any other elected position to give back to others,” Corker said. “There’s nothing

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CONNECT YOUTH WITH CHURCH: SALYER

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector SEVIERVILLE — Do students just make up the church of tomorrow or are they also part of the church today? asked Jason Salyer in a breakout session of Summit. Do the programming and structures of your congregation “support or deny” that view? asked Salyer, who is associate pastor of students, East Maryville Baptist Church, Maryville. He led the breakout session, “Connecting

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TBC CP GIFTS AHEAD OF NEW BUDGET

Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $3,234,452 through the Cooperative Program in December. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given a

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TOP WEBSITE STORIES IN 2016

Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Interest in the Baptist and Reflector website (baptistandreflector.org) gained momentum in 2016. During the past year the website had 147,536

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