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TEAM SEES 9,000-PLUS DECISIONS

March 24, 2017

Baptist and Reflector SOMERVILLE — A team of nine missions volunteers serving on the Cross Partners Ministry team recently returned from two weeks in the Republic of the Philippines where they served with about 40 churches in three different Baptist associations.   The team participated in more than 100 evangelistic crusades with Filipino Baptists on Luzon Island and saw 8,663 professions of faith and more than 400 other decisions for

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HELPING REFUGEES IN LIGHT OF U.S. POLICY

March 23, 2017

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — Refugee resettlement is in the news. President Donald Trump recently issued a revised policy on refugee resettlement in the United States which is being challenged in court. Refugee resettlement agencies are downsizing and closing offices in Tennessee in response. Tennessee became the first state in the nation to sue the federal government over refugee resettlement. The lawsuit filed on

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RALLY: TALK ABOUT JESUS AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY

March 22, 2017

By Nathan Handley Union University JACKSON — Steve Gaines, pastor at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova and president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said evangelism should be the priority of every Christian. “Heaven and hell are looming in the balance, and that’s a lot more important than anything else,” Gaines said March 5 at the West Tennessee Evangelism Rally at Union University. Gaines was the featured preacher at the rally,

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712 TEENS ACCEPT CHRIST AT YEC

March 21, 2017

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector See also: YEC 2017 Photo Gallery NASHVILLE — Youth Evangelism Conference 2017 drew about 7,383 participants to Municipal Auditorium here March 10-11. At least 712 teens made professions of faith during the Friday evening session. In addition, 392 students recorded that they had been a lukewarm Christian but were ready to follow Christ as a dedicated disciple, 210 teens reported that

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THE KEY TO REACHING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

March 10, 2017

By Stefani Varner Church Initiatives Team, International Mission Board During my senior year of college, I was invited to join more than 500 Chinese students and their families to celebrate Chinese New Year. I spent several hours eating authentic food, watching talent shows and videos from celebrations around the world, and learning about various customs and traditions. The time came for the door prize drawing, and suddenly, I heard my

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RCBA PROVIDES ELL FOR 18 YEARS

February 24, 2017

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector SPRINGFIELD — Robertson County Baptist Association (RCBA), based here, has offered an English for Language Learners ministry for 18 years. The ELL program of RCBA, draws about 100 people weekly from Spanish-speaking countries, Iran, Egypt, Brazil, and China to Springfield Baptist Church, said Judy Hurst, member of Springfield Baptist, who is ELL director. Students attend Thursday evening classes which are offered

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MINISTERING AMONG HISPANICS, ETHNICS

February 24, 2017

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector SPRINGFIELD — With only two Hispanic Baptist congregations in this area and about 10,000 Hispanic residents, opportunities abound to reach Hispanics here with the gospel, said Luis Lopez of the Robertson County Baptist Association (RCBA). Also the Hispanic population here is expected to grow 30 percent in the next five years — to 13,000, added Lopez, coordinator for Hispanic work of

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GAINES TO HEADLINE RALLY

February 22, 2017

Compiled by B&R JACKSON — Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines will be the keynote speaker at the second annual West Tennessee Evangelism Rally March 5 at Union University. Ernest Easley, professor of evangelism at Union, said last year’s rally was much more successful than he had hoped, with more than 800 people attending. He said the need for such an event is clear.

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BELIEVER’S BAPTISM – MUCH MORE THAN NUMBERS

February 14, 2017

By Nathan A. Finn Dean, School Of Theology & Missions, Union University As Baptist followers of Jesus Christ, we Southern Baptists have always emphasized the importance of believer’s baptism. As we see it in Scripture, believer’s baptism is: A public testimony of a new believer’s faith in Christ and the church’s recognition of that faith (Acts 2:38-41; I Peter 3:21). A pictorial representation of the gospel the believer has responded

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RCBA PROVIDES ELL FOR 18 YEARS

February 24, 2017

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector SPRINGFIELD — Robertson County Baptist Association (RCBA), based here, has offered an English for Language Learners

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GAINES TO HEADLINE RALLY

February 22, 2017

Compiled by B&R JACKSON — Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines will be the keynote speaker at the second annual West Tennessee Evangelism Rally March

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