FORMER BUDDHIST GRATEFUL FOR BAPTISTS, CP

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] LAFOLLETTE — At the age of 93, Dixie Hausser tells it like it is. “If the missionaries had not come, I’d probably not be a Christian today,” said Hausser, who later moved to Tennessee as an adult and is an active member of First Baptist Church, LaFollette. […]

THE COOPERATIVE PROGRAM BEGINS WITH GRANNY TATE

By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director  Everybody has their love language. Granny Tate expressed hers by twisting your ear. Hard. Granny Tate was a tiny lady, but she was a giant to me. She really did twist your ear as an expression of love. I wouldn’t have minded if she had been […]

MAIN EVENT EXAMINES WHAT IT MEANS TO ‘BE A MAN’

By Aaron Wilson Baptist Press HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — “What does it mean to be a man?” asked James MacDonald to more than 2,900 men at this year’s Main Event conference presented by LifeWay Christian Resources. “There’s a ton of confusion on that point,” said MacDonald, senior pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel in Chicago, as he […]

WHY AMERICANS GO TO CHURCH — AND WHY THEY DON’T

By Bob Smietana Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Americans who attend religious services and those who skip them may be looking for the same thing — a connection with God, according to a new survey from Pew Research.

YOUTH LEARN LIFE LESSONS ON TRIP TO GUATEMALA

By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — The concept of “giving the shirt off your back” played out in an almost literal sense for a group of roughly 40 students and leaders who recently traveled to Guatemala for a week-long mission trip sponsored by the Youth Evangelism Conference and the Tennessee Baptist Mission […]

BILL EDMONDS CELEBRATES 61 YEARS OF MINISTRY

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] OLIVER SPRINGS —  Tennessee Baptist pastor and evangelist Bill Edmonds preached his first sermon at the age of 24 at Meadowview Baptist Church in Wartburg. Sixty-one years later, on the same day and time (June 27 at 6 p.m.), Edmonds preached again, this time at First Baptist […]

COOPERATING CHURCHES – WHAT A BLESSING

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] Cooperation. Churches talk about it all the time. Churches actually practice cooperation when they participate through the Cooperative Program. But how often do churches truly practice cooperation by “cooperating” with each other? My guess is — not often enough. The standard definition of cooperation is “the process […]

MISSION TRIP — WITHOUT THE MILEAGE

Students in Hardeman County serve the community through Youth Evangelism Project By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector [email protected] BOLIVAR — Sitting in her car with the window rolled down on a steamy morning in West Tennessee, Ella Hayes had a peaceful smile on her face. She was feeling a refreshing mist of water on her […]

HOW WORSHIP SONGS BROUGHT A BUDDHIST TO CHRIST

Baptist Press NEPAL (BP) — Pavan* grew up feeling unsettled in his destiny. As the firstborn son in his family, he thought he would have to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a Buddhist monk. But music intervened into this cultural tradition that should have dictated his future. Pavan, now a Christian pastor, recounted […]