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STUDENT MINISTRY IN MCMINNVILLE THRIVING DESPITE COVID-19

August 21, 2020

By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector [email protected] McMINNVILLE — As John Templeton reflects on the past few months, he is awed by the way God has used these hard days as a time of transformation. Exhaustion has turned into excitement. Frustration has been replaced by fruitfulness. Despite the difficult circumstances brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Templeton has seen the Lord do a tremendous work in the student ministry at

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BREAKING NEWS: TBC COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS RECOMMENDS POSTPONEMENT OF SUMMIT

August 20, 2020

By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected]  FRANKLIN — The Committee on Arrangements of the Tennessee Baptist Convention unanimously recommends that the 2020 Summit, scheduled for Brentwood Baptist Church in Brentwood in November, “be postponed indefinitely” until next year. The decision was made Aug. 20 during a Zoom meeting of the arrangements committee which also included TBC president Bruce Chesser, TBC vice presidents Chuck Groover and Corey Cain, and Clay Hallmark and Glenn

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DOM IN MISSISSIPPI DIES AFTER FIGHTING COVID-19

August 19, 2020

Baptist Press BRANDON, Miss. — Rankin Baptist Association in Mississippi announced via Facebook  Aug. 11 the death of director of missions Allen Stephens due to COVID-19. The post said, “It is with a broken heart I share with you the elevation to heaven of Bro. Allen Stephens. He is healed and is seeing first-hand the beauty of the one he shared through his life — our Lord and Savior.”

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MEMPHIS CHURCH THRIVES DURING COVID-19, EYES 2021 FOR ONSITE WORSHIP

August 13, 2020

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 up and our offering is up. You tell me what you

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TIDINGS OF COMFORT AND JOY

August 12, 2020

Nashville FBC spreads happiness with ‘COVID Caroling’ ministry By David Dawson [email protected] NASHVILLE — Nashville First Baptist Church is getting an early jump on caroling season.  Minus the hot chocolate and mittens, of course.  Hoping to spread some cheer — and create some socially distanced fellowship — during the pandemic, FBC recently started a ministry called “COVID caroling.” The initiative is exactly what the name implies: A group of FBC

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WMU ANNOUNCES VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT PLAN AMID COVID FINANCIAL CRISIS

August 10, 2020

By Julie Walters National WMU news office BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In response to a decline in sales due to COVID-19, national Woman’s Missionary Union announced Aug. 5 it is offering a voluntary retirement plan to staff.  “We have worked incredibly hard over the past several years to ‘right size’ our organization based on revenue projections,” said Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director of national WMU. “With two difficult back-to-back downsizings and budget

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MOST CHURCHES CAUTIOUSLY HOLDING SERVICES AGAIN

August 7, 2020

By Aaron Earls LifeWay News Office NASHVILLE — Churches are gathering again, but services and programs remain drastically different from the beginning of the year. At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to previous surveys from Nashville-based LifeWay Research, Protestant churches across the U.S. stopped gathering in-person in a matter of weeks. The latest LifeWay Research survey of Protestant pastors found congregations have slowly and cautiously started to meet

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SMALL GROUP OPTIONS

July 30, 2020

By Bruce Chesser President of the Tennessee Baptist Convention Pastor, First Baptist Church, Hendersonville. One of the more difficult challenges that we are all facing these days is in the issue of figuring out how to re-gather in our small groups and maintain social distancing. A classroom that normally holds 50 people would only accommodate about 10 people with true social distancing. The largest classrooms that might hold 100 or

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COVID OUTBREAK OF MORE THAN 40 CASES TIED TO REVIVAL AT RURAL ALABAMA CHURCH

July 29, 2020

By Grace Thornton Baptist Press STRAWBERRY, Ala. — James Carson has watched the church he loves go through a lot in the past two years. When its building went up in flames in August 2018, he saw the smoke from his house across the cow pasture. It was a long process, but they rebuilt. And now he’s watching from home again as his beloved church family at Warrior Creek Baptist

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PANDEMIC HAS FORCED MISSIONARIES, CHURCHES TO ADAPT

July 23, 2020

By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] FRANKLIN — “Flexible” has always been the watchword for mission volunteers no matter whether they were preparing for an international trip, a trip to another state or a mission project just down the road. In a world turned upside down by the COVID-19 virus, the ability to be flexible and to adopt new approaches is more important than ever before, according to a group of mission

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SMALL GROUP OPTIONS

July 30, 2020

By Bruce Chesser President of the Tennessee Baptist Convention Pastor, First Baptist Church, Hendersonville. One of the more difficult challenges that we are all facing

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