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GOD’S STILL WORKING DURING THE PANDEMIC

September 28, 2020

By Norman Ridenhour Baptist layman and retired newspaper editor The coronavirus has reeked heartbreaking stories of people throughout the world. Anyone who reads or listens to the news receives daily reports of the death, hospitalization and fear across the globe.  Spousal abuse and divorce rates going through the roof, small business owners closing and losing everything they have spent a lifetime building. Government debt continues to rise to highs no

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THE COVID BLUES: IS IT REAL OR IMAGINED?

September 25, 2020

By Tony Rankin Minister of pastoral care, First Baptist Church, Nashville Regardless of how real you think COVID-19 is and regardless of where you stand on the political debate or spin of the news that attempt to define the legitimacy of the virus, the COVID blues are valid.  COVID-19 has caused our culture to make adjustments, forced each of us to make personal decisions that have been in conflict with

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PIERSON: EFFECTIVE PRAYER REQUIRES INTIMACY WITH GOD

September 23, 2020

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FLINTVILLE — Perhaps no one knows better than Don Pierson how desperately the United States needs to be intimately connected with God through prayer during this point in the nation’s history. In a nation filled with fear over COVID-19, increasing racial turmoil and divide and a country divided by politics, God is the only answer, said Don Pierson, pastor of Stewart’s Chapel

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PANDEMIC BRINGS POSSIBILITIES

September 15, 2020

By Paul Fries DOM, Salem Baptist Association, Liberty In Enterprise, Ala,, at the corner of College and Main Streets, stands a 13-foot tall monument to the Boll Weevil. This monument was placed their on Dec. 11, 1919 with the following inscription:  “In profound appreciation of the Boll Weevil and what it has done as the herald of prosperity, this monument was erected by the citizens of Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama.”

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MEMPHIS CHURCH THRIVES DURING COVID-19

September 14, 2020

Online attendance, giving have surged; on-campus gatherings to resume in 2021  By Diana Chandler Baptist Press MEMPHIS — Impact Baptist Church & Ministries of Memphis has so thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic that pastor Michael Ellis Sr. sees no reason to resume onsite worship before 2021. “I get this call from pastors all the time asking me what we’re going to do, and I say, ‘Hey look, our attendance is

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PANDEMIC PROMPTS CHURCHES TO CONSIDER PERMANENT CHANGES

September 8, 2020

By Tess Schoonhoven Baptist Press HENDERSONVILLE — Every church has adjusted some aspects of ministry since the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic. But even as the effects of COVID-19 continue to press into the modern landscape of the evangelical church, some congregations are already turning from the question of how to shift from the current moment toward changes for the long-term future. Robby Gallaty, pastor of Long Hollow Baptist

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SUMMIT 2020 ‘POSTPONED INDEFINITELY’

August 27, 2020

By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] FRANKLIN — In an historic action, directors of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, officers of the Tennessee Baptist Convention and the convention’s Committee on Arrangements voted overwhelmingly Aug. 27 to “postpone indefinitely” the annual meeting scheduled for Nov. 8-11 at Brentwood Baptist Church in Brentwood.

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SUMMIT POSTPONED — WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

August 27, 2020

Baptist and Reflector  FRANKLIN — Here are some questions (and answers) that Tennessee Baptists may have following the indefinite postponement (cancellation) of the 2020 Summit at Brentwood Baptist Church, Brentwood in November. How will the business of the Convention be conducted if the annual meeting is not held? Convention Constitution Article VII. TENNESSEE BAPTIST MISSION BOARD (TBMB)

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CALIFORNIA DISASTER RELIEF STYMIED DURING FIRES AS COVID-19 IMPACTS RESPONSE PROTOCOL

August 24, 2020

By Diana Chandler Baptist Press SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Calif. — As monster fires displace tens of thousands of Californians, Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers are stymied by changes in response protocols necessitated by COVID-19. Before the pandemic, volunteers in relief efforts were able to provide food and chaplains’ assistance to displaced residents housed at American Red Cross shelters. “With COVID rules the Red Cross is not putting people up

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CHALLENGES BECOME OPPORTUNITIES

August 21, 2020

Student pastors, leaders finding new ways to “do ministry” amid pandemic By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — When the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic first began impacting daily lives, many youth pastors were sent scrambling. The entire landscape of youth ministry changed almost overnight. Trips and events were postponed or canceled. On-campus gatherings were suspended. Things that were once considered “routine” parts of youth ministry had to

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