MOUNT JULIET —Disaster relief efforts concluded in McNairy County on April 22, but are expected to continue for at least three more weeks in Covington. Tornadoes and severe storms swept across the central and southern portions of the United States, including Tennessee, on March 31 and the early morning hours of April 1, causing extensive damage and leaving a reported 15 people dead in Tennessee. The two hardest hit areas

JACKSON — Stephen Rummage, pastor of Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Okla., will be nominated for presidency of the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference.  Adam Dooley, pastor of Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, will nominate Rummage. “I cannot imagine a better choice to lead next year’s SBC Pastors’ Conference than Stephen Rummage,” said Dooley. “From my perspective, he represents everything that is good about Southern Baptists.”

NASHVILLE — The president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Commission has been joined by 11 Tennessee pastors and the president of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board in urging state legislators to enact safety measures to protect the public from gun violence. TBMB president Randy C. Davis and Ethics & Religious Liberty president Brent Leatherwood signed a letter April 19 with 13 Tennessee pastors – 11 of them Southern Baptists –

The Apostle Paul shared this word of gratitude related to his ministry in Ephesus – “For a great and effective door has opened to me …” (I Corinthians 16:9a). This is exactly how the Lord is blessing the work of our Tennessee Baptist churches in and around BlueOval City. Doors for ministry opportunity are swinging wide open all around us.   In recent days, there have been several wonderful stories

Baptist and Reflector STANTON — Wearing green hats and warm smiles, a large group of Tennessee Baptist volunteers served lunch to more than 1,000 construction workers on Friday afternoon at BlueOval City (the under-construction Ford plant) in Stanton. The luncheon — hosted by more than a dozen Baptist churches and supported by the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board and the Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief feeding unit — was held to celebrate

FRANKLIN — Although Mark Whitt has participated in Beach Reach more than a dozen times, he doesn’t show any signs of burnout.  Quite the opposite. Whitt, the Baptist Collegiate Ministry (BCM) director at Middle Tennessee State University, said his passion for Beach Reach — a ministry in which BCM students travel to Florida to share the gospel with party-seeking spring breakers in Panama City Beach — is perhaps stronger now

SPRINGVILLE — Any way you slice it, Brian Parsons is a bivocational pastor. The bivocational pastor of Springville Baptist Church also is the bivocational pastor of McDavid Grove Baptist Church, both located in Henry County. Parsons is believed to be the only bivocational pastor of two Tennessee Baptist churches at the same time, said Roger Britton, bivocational ministry specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. The unique arrangement has gone

FRANKLIN — Even if the travel distance was short, the spiritual sustenance will surely go a long way for the students who took part in the 2023 Youth Evangelism Conference.  Hosted at three regional sites across the state — thereby cutting down on the mileage for many youth groups — the annual event drew a total of nearly 3,000 attendees and celebrated 80 professions of faith. There were also 15