TBC CP GIFTS RISE
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $3,140,779 through the Cooperative Program in August. It was the fourth time during this budget year that gifts exceeded $3 million in a month. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $29,139,559. With two months to go in the current fiscal year the amount is […]
FUTURE BRIGHT FOR IMB, PREDICTS SCOTT HARRIS
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — As Scott Harris enters his eighth and final year as a trustee of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, he has witnessed a lot of change. He became a trustee in 2009 just after the economy had bottomed out. He has served with three different […]
SBC CP GIFTS UP 2.99 PERCENT
Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 5.28 percent above the year-to-date SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget projection, and are 2.99 percent above contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to a news release from SBC […]
NEARLY 90 YEARS OLD, CORLEY KEEPS SERVING
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector LIVINGSTON — Damon Corley will be 90 years old in November, but you would never know it by looking at him. Still spry and active, Corley is not only the pastor of West Fentress Baptist Church in Jamestown, he also just recently accepted the role of associate moderator […]
TBC CP GIFTS REMAIN ABOVE YEARLY BUDGET
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptists are continuing to support missions and ministry causes in their state and around the world by their giving through the Cooperative Program. In June, Tennessee Baptist Convention churches contributed a total of $2,965,451 through the CP giving channel. The amount is $869,931 or 3.9 percent more than was […]
TBC GIVING STILL UP FOR YEAR
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,554,604 through the Cooperative Program in May. In the first seven months of the 2015-16 fiscal year, Tennessee Baptists have given $20,303,904 through the CP giving channel to meet missions and ministry needs in Tennessee and around the world.
TENNESSEE CP GIVING TRENDING UPWARD
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptists’ giving through the Cooperative Program is trending upward. For the first time in five years (since the 2010-11 budget year), Cooperative Program gifts from Tennessee Baptist Convention churches not only are up over the previous year, but they are above projected needs midway into […]
TBC CP GIVING REMAINS ON TARGET
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Giving from Tennessee Baptist Convention churches through the Cooperative Program remains on target after the first six months of the budget year. Tennessee Baptists gave $3,037,222 through the Cooperative Program giving channel in April. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $ 17,749,300, an increase of $672,460 or 3.9 percent […]
MOVING FORWARD WITH THE IMB
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game. We’ve all heard that sports cliché and frankly it is one I don’t particularly like. Yes, it does matter how you play the game, but the point of playing the game is to win. However, […]
TBC CP GIFTS INCREASE
By Baptist & Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,747,830 through the Cooperative Program in March. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $14,712,077. After five months of the current fiscal year, the total is $1,101,628 or 8.1 percent over the amount given at the same time last year. It also is $441,244 […]