All across our state — and all around the world — children’s lives are being forever changed at Vacation Bible School. The dedication of the VBS volunteers is what drives the ministry, and Becky McCray is a prime example. McCray, who will turn 90 this month, has taught Vacation Bible School at First Baptist Church, Dandridge, for 60 years. She is the widow of Bob McCray who served as pastor of

Wes Jones, disaster relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, issued a call-out Thursday for teams to respond to the Memphis area, including the Bartlett and Millington areas. “We have over 140 work requests already,” Jones said. The DR teams will be working out of Bellevue Baptist Church. The list of needed volunteer positions includes chaplains, assessors, chain saw teams and heavy equipment operators bucket truck/skid steers. Jones said

FRANKLIN — The future looks bright for Tennessee Baptists, said Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. In a video released to Tennessee Baptists on June 28 (click below to view the video), Davis observed that while “we live with cultural uncertainty and uncertainty even with the Southern Baptist Convention, there is good news. “God is on the move in Tennessee and that’s why

Keeping true to tradition, the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board hosted a “dessert reception” during this year’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. The reception — which took place on June 12 (the evening prior to the official start of the annual meeting) at the New Orleans convention center — was well attended, as Tennessee Baptists filled the room for a time of fellowship and king cake. Randy C. Davis, president and

NEW ORLEANS — Union University presented Ben Mandrell, president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources and a former Tennessee pastor, with the M.E. Dodd Denominational Service Award during a June 13 alumni dinner at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans, La. The Dodd Award is the highest denominational service award Union gives. It is named for the man who was a 1904 Union graduate, served as president

Lives are being changed this week at All Nations Camp at Linden Valley Baptist Conference Center. More than 40 children have made professions of faith thus far at camp, said William Burton, ethnic church planting specialist and new churches team leader for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, shortly after the worship session on Thursday morning. Click the video below for an update from Burton.  

NEW ORLEANS — Several Tennessee Baptists were elected to serve on Southern Baptist Convention committees and entities during the annual meeting of the convention last week in New Orleans. The Committee on Committees chose two Tennessee Baptists to serve on the 2023 Committee on Nominations — Mark Puckett, First Baptist Church, Tullahoma, and Joan Cook, First Baptist Church, Joelton. Erin D. “Dani” Bryson, First Baptist Church, Dickson, was elected to