REPAIRING HOMES, HEARTS
BCM teams join forces with Disaster Relief members to provide aid to hurricane victims in North Carolina By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector [email protected] WARSAW, N.C. — Some were Buccaneers. Some were Governors. Others were Mockingbirds, Volunteers, Tigers, Flames, Raiders and more. But for a few days in January, this group of more than 100 […]
TOP STORIES OF 2018
Analytics of the B&R website reveal these stories to have received the most clicks in the past 12 months 1-5. RESIGNATION, TERMINATION OF PROMINENT SBC LEADERS MAKE UP TOP-5 STORIES OF 2018 Frank Page’s resignation as president and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee in late March and Paige Patterson’s termination […]
MOVEMENT & MILESTONES
Five Objectives progress, anniversaries top news of 2018 By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — Statistics indicating that the convention-adopted Five Objectives are having an impact in Tennessee, along with significant anniversaries of Tennessee Baptist Mission Board ministries, were among the top stories in the Tennessee Baptist Convention in 2018. In addition, […]
TENNESSEE DR RECEIVES $200K GRANT
By Chris Turner [email protected] FRANKLIN — The Tennessee Baptist Mission Board recently received a significant financial grant to support Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief (TBDR) work related to the recent hurricane that primarily blasted North Carolina and parts of South Carolina, causing widespread flooding and decimating communities along the coast. TBMB was officially notified Oct. 17 […]
THIS SUNDAY: DISASTER RELIEF APPRECIATION DAY
By Brandon Elrod Baptist Press ALPHARETTA, Ga. — For more than 50 years, Southern Baptists have been providing disaster relief to the United States and its territories after the gravest of tragedies. Whether it is major natural disasters that affect millions or localized events that hit small communities, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) volunteers regularly […]
KUDOS TO NAMB
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] I have been critical in the past about what I perceived as an indifference by the North American Mission Board to traditional Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. In recent years, NAMB introduced Send Relief which includes a disaster relief element. I felt that it was competition to SBDR […]
RECENT HURRICANES CAUSE MAJOR DEVASTATION
Tennessee Baptist DR volunteers will be needed for months By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — The destruction caused by recent hurricanes Michael and Florence will keep Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief and rebuild teams busy for months and even years to come, say veteran disaster relief officials. “The combined devastation of these […]
TENNESSEE DR VOLUNTEERS HEADED TO FLORIDA
By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] FRANKLIN — With teams deployed, and still needed, in North Carolina, Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers will be doing “double duty” in the days ahead. DR teams will head to Crawfordville, Fla., on Saturday, Oct. 12, to set up incident command, chain saw teams and feeding, shower and laundry units. Volunteers […]
TEN THINGS WE DON’T WANT TO SAY ABOUT THE CP
By Matt Tullos Stewardship Development Specialist, TBMB In the Go Fund Me era, it’s easy to minimize the Cooperative Program. We get so caught up in the daily grind of ministry and we forget all the things that make the Cooperative Program shine so brightly in a dark world. It begs the question, “What would […]
TEN THINGS WE DON’T WANT TO SAY ABOUT THE CP
By Matt Tullos Stewardship Development Specialist, TBMB In the Go Fund Me era, it’s easy to minimize the Cooperative Program. We get so caught up in the daily grind of ministry and we forget all the things that make the Cooperative Program shine so brightly in a dark world. It begs the question, “What would […]