By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector KNOXVILLE — Revitalizing plateaued and declining churches in America takes hard work and requires a willingness to change, agreed speakers at a church revitalization conference held Sept. 1 at Wallace Memorial Baptist Church. “Churches don’t like change,” observed Tom Cheyney, executive director of missions for the Greater Orlando (Fla.) Baptist Association and founder of the RENOVATE National Church Revitalization Conference. Churches get locked

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector KNOXVILLE — No one can ever accuse Don Pierson of not practicing what he preaches — pray and seek God’s will, then follow it. For 12 years Pierson served as prayer strategist for the Tennessee Baptist Convention and led prayer revivals and conferences all across the state. He was in high demand. But in 2013, while leading a prayer conference at Stewarts Chapel