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 for prayer and financial resources that would ensure the advancement of the gospel. At the
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 Tennessee Baptists during a partnership with IMB personnel from 2010-2017. Two of their four children
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 be available through the TBMB’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/tnbaptist.
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 adopt new approaches is more important than ever before, according to a group of mission
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 upon re-entering the U.S. The future threat and spread of COVID-19 also remains an unknown
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.
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 live in. We have all made adjustments in our lives – some we like, some
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 which included 24 women were able to work with 14 church planters in and around
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 the hotbed of the COVID-19 virus,” Bruce Raley, executive pastor of the Nashville area church,
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, and market crashes flood our news feeds. The death tolls and statistics overwhelm us each
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director On Sept. 15, 1887, a diminutive woman named Charlotte Digges Moon, known to Southern Baptists as
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.
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
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,
By Leslie Peacock Caldwell IMB News Office RICHMOND — International Mission Board senior leaders are urging Southern Baptists to use extreme caution if they are
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,
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
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,
By Shawn Hendricks Contributing Writer, Baptist and Reflector HENDERSONVILLE — For members of First Baptist Church of Hendersonville, the news that their church led 30
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
