MISSIONS, LOTTIE MOON AND LEADERSHIP
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director On Sept. 15, 1887, a diminutive woman named Charlotte Digges Moon, known to Southern Baptists as “Lottie,” sat at a rough hewn table in a modest hut in China and penned a letter that would forever transform the Southern Baptist Convention. In that letter, Lottie called […]
TAKING THE GOSPEL’S HOPE TO ITALY
Editor’s Note: Charlie and Shannon Worthy are the featured missionaries on Day 6 (Dec. 4) of the Week of Prayer for International Missions (Nov. 29-Dec. 6). The Worthys have strong ties to Tennessee with family in both West and Middle Tennessee. Charlie Worthy is a graduate of Union University in Jackson. They worked closely with […]
TBMB FACEBOOK LIVE EVENT TO PREMIERE GOTM VIDEOS
Baptist and Reflector To help promote the launch of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board’s 2020-21 Tennessee Mission Emphasis, the TBMB will host a Facebook Live Premiere event on Thursday night at 7 p.m. Central (8 p.m. Eastern). The event will include a viewing of all the 2020-2021 Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions promotional videos, and will […]
PANDEMIC HAS FORCED MISSIONARIES, CHURCHES TO ADAPT
By Lonnie Wilkey [email protected] FRANKLIN — “Flexible” has always been the watchword for mission volunteers no matter whether they were preparing for an international trip, a trip to another state or a mission project just down the road. In a world turned upside down by the COVID-19 virus, the ability to be flexible and to […]
LEADERS URGE CAUTION, COMMITMENT TO MISSIONS
By Leslie Peacock Caldwell IMB News Office RICHMOND — International Mission Board senior leaders are urging Southern Baptists to use extreme caution if they are considering overseas missions travel for the remainder of 2020. As many countries continue to require quarantines or have not yet opened their borders, travelers could face unexpected circumstances, including quarantines […]
TENNESSEANS REFLECT ON END OF WORLD CHANGERS
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — Though World Changers began as a program of the former Southern Baptist Convention Brotherhood Commission, it made a lasting impact on Tennesseans who both participated in the hands-on missions ministry and those who benefited from the work of countless teenagers and sponsors.
LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE PANDEMIC OF 2020
By Phil Young Director of Missions, Knox County Association of Baptists Last month I shared with you a quote from Tod Bolsinger regarding the rapidly changing culture we live in. Bolsinger writes, “The world in front of you is nothing like the world behind you.” Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world we […]
PRAYERWALKING DONE A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY
Tennessee WMU ‘travel’ to Denver church planters without leaving home By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN — For the past three years, Tennessee Woman’s Missionary Union prayer warriors have traveled to Colorado as part of the Send Denver partnership to meet and pray with church planters on their home turf. Six teams […]
CHURCH SENDS TEAM ON VIRTUAL MISSION TRIP
By Shawn Hendricks Contributing Writer, Baptist and Reflector HENDERSONVILLE — For members of First Baptist Church of Hendersonville, the news that their church led 30 people on a mission trip last week to New York City in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis could have seemed a little shocking. “That’s right. They traveled right into […]
WHAT’S THE REAL INVISIBLE ENEMY?
By Matt Tullos TBMB Special Assistant to the Executive Director 2020 will be remembered as the Year of the Pandemic. A new normal swept across our country as leaders grappled with circumstances that previously were only portrayed in doomsday novels and disaster movies. We’ve seen the best and worst of humanity. Mass graves, food lines, […]