By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector NEW MARKET — For the 19th year, cars gathered at New Market Baptist Church here to drive through “The Trail to the Empty Tomb.” This year, about 650 people viewed the presentation on two nights. One night was rained out, but that has only happened one other time over the years, explained J.W. Taylor, pastor. The presentation has been offered in

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector HERMITAGE — Pastor David Taft sees First Baptist Church here as a “gas station” which serves a few people at a time. “Our goal is not to get a lot of people in the building, but to get Christ in people. … “The church cannot be the church if we remove ourselves from the community,” declared Taft. “If I can’t relate

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector FRANKLIN — To reach its neighborhood, which is home to a lot of Hispanics, Walker Memorial Baptist Church here considered starting a Hispanic congregation. Then it learned from the Tennessee Baptist Convention staff of a Baptist Hispanic congregation meeting in its city and God began to work. What Walker Memorial Baptist and Iglesia Bautista de las Americas (Baptist Church of the

Phone app encourages Tennessee Baptists to be Great Commission Christians By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Wake up in the morning, turn on the television or pick up your morning newspaper and you’re immediately reminded of the sin that is rampant in today’s society. The Tennessee Baptist Convention has launched a new phone application designed to provide an encouraging word to help Tennessee Baptists and other Great

320 students make spiritual commitments By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — The Youth Evangelism Conference 2016 drew about 8,330 teens and their sponsors here March 11-12 to worship, laugh at The Skit Guys, and hear challenges. The YEC is the largest event held by the Tennessee Baptist Convention. The attendance was up about 300 from last year. A total of 278 students made professions of