TBMB APPROVES $2.1 MILLION GOTM BUDGET
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — The board of directors of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board unanimously approved a $2.1 million goal for the 2018-19 Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions. The goal is an increase of $250,000 or 13.5 percent over the 2017-18 goal of $1.925 million. The projected income is $1.85 […]
AN IMPORTANT HIRE
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector In February, the International Mission Board learned that President David Platt was returning to the pastorate, so trustees are in the process of searching for a successor. This will be an important hire because the individual will be leading Southern Baptists’ largest missions-sending organization. But just recently another […]
CHURCH HAS TRUST IN COOPERATIVE PROGRAM
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist & Reflector Editor’s Note: View the Cooperative Program video featuring Todd Hallman at tnbaptist.org/CP, or see below. ELIZABETHTON — Though the Cooperative Program did not come into existence until decades after First Baptist Church, Elizabethton, was established 175 years ago, missions has always been important to the church. “From the […]
FORMER TBC PASTOR QUADRUPLES CP GIVING
By Erin Roach Baptist Press DENVER — A Denver-area church plant, in only its third year, voted to quadruple its giving through the Cooperative Program, realizing the value of the missions-support system that has aided them — and through which they can help reach the world for Christ.
A NORMAL TENNESSEE BAPTIST CHURCH
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director Normal is good. I’m a fan of normal. I recently found normal in Howell, about an hour and 15-minute drive straight south from our house in Nolensville. The weather was nearly perfect for an early morning drive with my bride, Jeanne, and we wound our way […]
TBC CP GIVING HOLDS STEADY
Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,775,621 through the Cooperative Program in March. After five months of the 2017-18 fiscal year, Tennessee Baptists have given $14,674,290. The total is $59,461 or 0.4 percent over the amount given during the same time frame last year. It also is $299,290 or 2.08 percent […]
TBC CP GIVING HOLDS STEADY
Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,775,621 through the Cooperative Program in March. After five months of the 2017-18 fiscal year, Tennessee Baptists have given $14,674,290. The total is $59,461 or 0.4 percent over the amount given during the same time frame last year. It also is $299,290 or 2.08 percent […]
GIVING A PART OF PASTOR’S, CHURCH’S DNA
Editor’s Note: View the Cooperative Program video featuring David Green at the end of this article. By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector GREENEVILLE — First Baptist Church, Greeneville, has been giving through the Cooperative Program since the Southern Baptist funding channel was established in 1926. First Baptist currently gives 13 percent of its undesignated […]
REASONS TO CELEBRATE THE COOPERATIVE PROGRAM
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director I’m amazed at what God is doing across Tennessee through His people and through the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. In Dandridge, 15 more boys were recently saved, baptized, and set on the road to discipleship at a detention facility. These precious younger brothers in Christ add […]
TBC CP GIFTS UP
Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $3,416,389 through the Cooperative Program in January. For the year-to-date, Cooperative Program gifts total $9,263,010. After the first quarter of the 2017 fiscal year, gifts are $233,474 or 2.6 percent more than was given at the same time last year. CP gifts also are $638,010 […]