By Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — A Tennessee Baptist pastor and a layman will write Sunday School commentaries for the March – May quarter. Gene Price, pastor of Tumbling Creek Baptist Church, Gleason, will write the Bible Studies for Life series.
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Since the 1-5-1 Harvest Plants strategy was introduced about three years ago, Tennessee Baptists have seen an increase in both church starts and baptisms. 1-5-1 was the brainchild of Bobby Welch, former associate executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Convention who retired last summer. 1-5-1 Harvest Plants are off-campus efforts (outside the four walls of the church) geared toward people who
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector MOUNT JULIET — Nineteen Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers will be serving in Flint, Mich., Feb. 21-28, responding to the city’s water crisis, reported Wes Jones, Tennessee Baptist DR specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Convention. The volunteers will be installing water filters in homes and providing encouragement and prayer, he added. The project is being coordinated by the Southern Baptist North
By Nathan Handley Union University News Office JACKSON — Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board, encouraged Union University students to be obedient in their mission as Christians at a chapel service Feb. 10 in the G. M. Savage Memorial Chapel. “The Bible tells us very clearly that, as believers we’re to be on mission,” Ezell said. “That means as a teacher, as an engineer, whatever it is
Baptist Press ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Since 2001, Appalachian Regional Ministries, a ministry of the North American Mission Board, has collected and distributed more than 140,000 Christmas backpacks and boxes filled with toys, clothing, school supplies, food, and hygiene items and a Bible. As the ministry has expanded over the years, backpacks were distributed in the 2015 outreach to more than 46,000 children affected by poverty in Appalachia as well as
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Giving by Tennessee Baptists to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions is up from last year about 5 percent — from $6 million to about $6.3 million as of Jan. 31. Early reports are that giving has been both sacrificial and creative. Some Tennessee Baptists intentionally sought to increase LMCO gifts this year due to the financial
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector COOKEVILLE — Jimmie Simpson can relate to folks who have addictions or life controlling issues. For about 15 years, he struggled with alcoholism. People might understand his drinking and taking drugs. When he was 2 years old his father would give him alcohol to drink. When he was 15 years old, he began drinking steadily. After high school Simpson enlisted in
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,809,717 through the Cooperative Program in January. After three months of the 2015-16 fiscal year, Tennessee Baptists have given $8,959,862. The total is $312,199 or 3.6 percent more than what was given after the first quarter of the last fiscal year. The amount also is 397,362 or 4.64 percent ahead of budget needs.
Compiled by B&R BRENTWOOD — This Valentine’s Day, the Woman’s Missionary Union Foundation hopes to spread love and warmth to Syrian refugees living in Jordan. The Foundation is asking people to donate $25, which supplies a blanket to a refugee family. They are also encouraging people to donate blankets in their communities to help meet local needs. “We want to do everything we can to meet the physical and spiritual
Tennessee Baptist youth ministers offer pointers on how to combat problem By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBC BRENTWOOD — The number of searches for Internet pornography exponentially increases every second. If the rapidly changing online “porn ticker” represented increasing stock value, there would be thousands — possibly millions — of overnight millionaires. Instead, the ticker reveals an insatiable appetite for sexually explicit content, and a high percentage of those
By Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — A Tennessee Baptist pastor and a layman will write Sunday School commentaries for the March – May quarter. Gene
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Since the 1-5-1 Harvest Plants strategy was introduced about three years ago, Tennessee Baptists have seen
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector MOUNT JULIET — Nineteen Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers will be serving in Flint, Mich., Feb.
By Nathan Handley Union University News Office JACKSON — Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board, encouraged Union University students to be obedient
Baptist Press ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Since 2001, Appalachian Regional Ministries, a ministry of the North American Mission Board, has collected and distributed more than 140,000
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Giving by Tennessee Baptists to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions is
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector COOKEVILLE — Jimmie Simpson can relate to folks who have addictions or life controlling issues. For
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,809,717 through the Cooperative Program in January. After three months of the 2015-16 fiscal year,
Compiled by B&R BRENTWOOD — This Valentine’s Day, the Woman’s Missionary Union Foundation hopes to spread love and warmth to Syrian refugees living in Jordan.
Tennessee Baptist youth ministers offer pointers on how to combat problem By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBC BRENTWOOD — The number of searches for
