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FAYE PEARSON, FIRST WOMAN TO SERVE AS IMB AREA DIRECTOR, DIES

February 21, 2019

By Mary Jane Welch IMB communications office Faye Pearson, the first woman to serve as an area director for the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, died Feb. 20, 2019, following a long illness. She was 78. Her full obituary can be found below this story.  Pearson started her career in the early 1960s as many women did then — working as a secretary, a teacher, a church education director. But

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A CHURCH FAMILY MAKES A DIFFERENCE

February 20, 2019

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] A church family can make the difference in someone’s life. If you don’t believe it, just read the story of Paul Chitwood, new president of the International Mission Board, Southern Baptists’ largest missions-sending institution. Chitwood grew up in a single-parent home for much of his childhood. He readily admits that members of First Baptist Church in Jellico “helped raise” him. He flat

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TENNESSEE TIES

February 19, 2019

Editor’s Note: New IMB President Paul Chitwood spoke to Baptist editors during their meeting last week in Charleston, S.C. Following his presentation, the Tennessee native sat down for an interview with the Baptist and Reflector. By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] CHARLESTON, S.C. — It’s been quite awhile since Paul Chitwood left Tennessee, but his roots still run deep. Chitwood, who became president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s

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IMB’S CHITWOOD TAPS LAFFERTY

February 8, 2019

Baptist Press RICHMOND — International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood announced Jan. 30 that Todd Lafferty will be presented to the entity’s board of trustees as his recommendation for the IMB’s next executive vice president. IMB trustees, who meet Feb. 6-7 in Richmond, are responsible for electing the person who serves in that role. Lafferty currently serves as pastor of mobilization for Shades Mountain Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. He

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TOGETHERNESS, UNITY MARK IMB PRESIDENTIAL INSTALLATION

February 7, 2019

By Ann Lovell IMB communications office RICHMOND, Va. — Unity, fellowship and promises of mutual support characterized the installation of International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood, a native of Jellico, Tenn., and the Sending Celebration of 19 newly appointed international missionaries at Grove Avenue Baptist Church, in Richmond, Wednesday, Feb. 6. Chitwood is the 13th president of the 173-year-old International Mission Board, the largest denominational missionary-sending body among American evangelicals. 

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TENNESSEAN PAUL CHITWOOD ELECTED UNANIMOUSLY AS IMB PRESIDENT

November 16, 2018

By David Roach Baptist Press RICHMOND, Va. — About a decade ago, Paul Chitwood became convinced God was calling him to mobilize missions and missionaries, he told International Mission Board trustees. That call culminated today (Nov. 15), he said, with his election as IMB president. “Being a member of this board for eight years changed my ministry and it changed my life, so much so that [my wife] Michelle and

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TENNESSEAN NOMINATED TO LEAD IMB

November 6, 2018

By Lonnie Wilkey & Julie McGowan Baptist & Reflector RICHMOND — Paul Chitwood, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, will be nominated as the 13th president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board. The IMB’s presidential search committee announced Nov. 6 that Chitwood, 48, will be presented to the full trustee board for a vote during their Nov. 14-15 meeting in Richmond. If elected during the plenary session

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LOTTIE MOON OFFERING TOTALS NEARLY $159 MILLION

October 10, 2018

By Julie McGowan IMB RICHMOND, Va. — On the 100th anniversary since Southern Baptists named their global mission offering in honor of esteemed missionary Lottie Moon, church members gave $158.9 million to sustain their international missionaries worldwide — the second-highest Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® for International Missions ever received. “We praise the Lord and thank Southern Baptist churches who have again generously demonstrated their faithfulness in undergirding the spread of

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PLATT TO STEP DOWN FROM IMB; MEADOR NAMED INTERIM PRESIDENT

September 14, 2018

By Julie McGowan IMB office Editorial note: Statements from Platt and Dunbar follow this release.  RICHMOND, Virginia — After receiving the resignation of Dr. David Platt, IMB president, to be effective at the Sept. 27, 2018, trustee meeting, the Executive Committee of the board of trustees of the International Mission Board voted in a special meeting Sept. 13 to approve Dr. Clyde Meador as interim president starting Sept. 27, subject

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FORMER BUDDHIST GRATEFUL FOR BAPTISTS, CP

August 21, 2018

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 missionaries she refers to were appointed by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board (now

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TENNESSEE TIES

February 19, 2019

Editor’s Note: New IMB President Paul Chitwood spoke to Baptist editors during their meeting last week in Charleston, S.C. Following his presentation, the Tennessee native

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