Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — During the 2021 Summit at Brentwood Baptist Church, messengers of the Tennessee Baptist Convention commissioned Tennessee Baptist Convention president Clay Hallmark with the duty of appointing a Sexual Abuse Task Force. Hallmark recently released an update on the task force (SATF). The full report can been read below this story.   The task force was assigned to do a thorough evaluation of how the TBMB responds to

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN  — Thirteen former presidents of the Tennessee Baptist Convention gathered May 12 at the Church Support Center to discuss opportunities and challenges, including future needs for churches in the convention and a question of whether the TBC president should have a second term. The meeting was initiated by Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board

By Dianne Barker Contributing writer JOHNSON CITY — Tennessee evangelist Charles “Toonie” Cash recently surpassed a ministry milestone — 50 years in fulltime evangelism. Cash has served four terms as president of the Fellowship of Tennessee Baptist Evangelists. He has ministered in 18 states, preaching revival meetings and leading special conferences, teaching Bible studies and speaking for banquets and other events. “I understand the average stay for an evangelist in

By David Dawson [email protected] FRANKLIN — Ken Hindman believes there can be, and should be, more to teaching children about God than reading a Bible story and passing out Goldfish.  Hindman, children’s pastor at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, has spent years developing a teaching method that can be applied by parents, children’s workers and church leaders as they engage in teaching children and youth about the Lord and the

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — In the mid-1940s members of Tennessee Woman’s Missionary Union were facing a dilemma. They were unable to find adequate facilities to provide summer missions camps for their Royal Ambassadors and Girls in Action. WMU youth worker Mrs. M. K. Cobble observed, “The burden of my heart is that, to date, we have no place to have our camps this summer.

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] MORRISTOWN — For the past several weeks, Tennessee Baptist churches have been collecting supplies for Ukrainian refugees. Their efforts culminated on May 2 when volunteers from Nolachucky Baptist Association loaded the first of two containers that will be sent to Moldova to assist in Ukrainian relief efforts. The containers were loaded at God’s Warehouse, a ministry of Nolachucky Baptist Association in Morristown. “We