BAPTISTS AND A STRANGE IGNORANCE ABOUT MISSIONS
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R I was born in 1937, which was just 12 years after the Cooperative Program of the Southern Baptist Convention was born. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offerings for missions were already institutions. For 79 years I’ve known these three factors as the sources for […]
IMB ADDRESSES BAPTISM NUMBERS
By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE (BP) — Decreases in the number of baptisms and new churches reported by International Mission Board missionaries during the past decade reflect changes in data-reporting methods and missions strategy, not a lack of evangelistic ministry. That’s the conclusion of a March 21 IMB news release issued in response to […]
TBC CP GIVING ON THE RISE
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $3,004,385 through the Cooperative Program in February. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $11,964,247. After the first quarter of the fiscal year, the amount is $834,602 or 7.5 percent above what was given during the same time frame last year, and is $547,580 or […]
EC WRAP-UP: SMALL-STATE REPRESENTATION CONSIDERED
By Baptist Press NASHVILLE (BP) — After nearly an hour of discussion, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s officers withdrew a recommendation to propose granting representation on three key SBC committees to Baptists in pioneer regions. EC leadership promised, however, to make an alternate proposal with the same goal but addressing logistical concerns raised by […]
TBC CP GIVING STILL STRONG
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 […]
SBC CP GIFTS CONTINUE UPWARD TREND
Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 6.07 percent above the year-to-date budgeted projection and 1.91 percent above contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to a news release from Frank S. Page, president and chief […]
I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director I love a good story and I love good storytellers and that may be one of the reasons I love the Bible. Talk about good stories. Begin at Genesis and read all the way through and you have real people living lives of suspense, drama, espionage, intrigue, romance, […]
THE CP STILL WORKS
By Paul Chitwood Executive Director, Kentucky Baptist Convention I received a letter recently from one of our International Mission Board missionaries who is taking the early retirement offer from the IMB but desires to return to the field. Without support from the IMB, the missionary is hoping to raise his own support from his network […]
TBC CP GIFTS CLIMB
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptists gave a total of $3,871,421 through the Cooperative Program in December. It was the largest dollar amount for the Cooperative Program in a single month since January in the 2012-2013 budget year when Tennessee Baptists gave $3,897,791. After two months of the 2015-16 budget year Tennessee Baptist churches […]
TBC STAFF REALIGNS AROUND FIVE OBJECTIVES
BRENTWOOD – The staff of the Executive Board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention has been realigned in order to assist churches in accomplishing the Five Objectives. The Five Objectives were adopted by messengers at the Summit in 2014 at Brentwood Baptist Church in Brentwood as long-range goals for the convention.