Wallace Memorial’s healthcare ministry receives ultrasound machine from ERLC By Tom Strode Baptist Press KNOXVILLE — An East Tennessee ministry has a new resource provided by Southern Baptists for its mission to serve the needy — in this case, underprivileged, pregnant women. Wallace Mobile Healthcare, based in Knoxville, received an ultrasound machine March 6 from the Psalm 139 Project of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. The gift — the

78-year-old Jerry Milam enjoying fruits of new church start in Lyles By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector LYLES — Statistics indicate that the average church planter is somewhere in his late 20s to his mid-30s, according to Lewis McMullen, church planting specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Convention. If that’s the case, Jerry Milam acknowledges (with a grin), “I’m well above average.” Milam, 78, is pastor of New Life Baptist

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector JACKSON — Leaders who recognize the need and are willing to be involved are critical to church revitalization, speakers agreed at a church revitalization conference held at Union University here last week. The conference, which was sponsored by the Tennessee Baptist Convention and Union, addressed the issue of “Fanning the Flame of Christian Leadership.” Tennessee native Jim Henry, former pastor of Two Rivers

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Groundbreaking for the Tennessee Baptist Convention Executive Board’s Church Support Center will be held Saturday, April 23, on the new site in Berry Farms, south of Franklin. Executive Board offices have been housed in the LifePoint Building in Brentwood following the sale of the former Baptist Center in 2013. “The Church Support Center groundbreaking/worship ceremony will be both exciting and historic,”