FAMILY CHOOSES CP FOR MEMORIAL
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector NEWPORT – Levi Parish spent the better part of his ministry supporting and encouraging others to support the Cooperative Program. So when he passed away on Feb. 26, it was only natural that the family wanted to do something special in his memory. “He loved missions,” Sherry Parish […]
IMB APPOINTS MISSIONARIES
Baptist Press RICHMOND — Twenty-nine Southern Baptists were appointed as missionaries to the nations during the International Mission Board’s trustee meeting Feb. 28-March 1 near Richmond. Trustees also heard numerous reports and recognized 63 missionaries who retired or died within the past year. Among those appointed were Aaron and Melissa Stormer of Hilldale Baptist Church […]
HELP CAN HURT
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector I recently came across an article on the International Mission Board website (www.imb.org) by former president Jerry Rankin. The title immediately caught my attention: “Help that Hurts: Considering the Long-Term Cost of Missions Subsidy.” Rankin observed: “We have made many mistakes over the years of missions work around the world. […]
MISSIONS A WAY OF LIFE FOR FOOTBALL PLAYER
By Bill Sorrell Contributing Writer, Baptist and Reflector McKENZIE — A Cuban Christian gave Jeffery Johnson the shirt off his back. While on a missions trip to Cuba last March, Johnson met Eduardo, a married man in his mid-30s with two children. “We had a bond. We got to spend so much time together. At […]
HOW NEAR ARE YOU WILLING TO GO?
By Randy C. Davis TBMB Executive Director Maybe you’ve been there, on a missions trip standing in the middle of the urban sprawl of one of the world’s great cities, cities like Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Sao Paulo, London, Krakow, Rome, or Istanbul. There are people everywhere, bouncing off each other like pinballs. You may […]
NAME CHANGE, FIRES TOP STORIES IN 2016
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — There was no shortage of news in the Tennessee Baptist Convention in 2016. The story that garnered the most national attention occurred Nov. 28 when fires swept across Sevier County, primarily in Gatlinburg, leaving 14 people dead, injuring at least 160 others, and damaging or destroying […]
A NEW DAY IN OBEYING THE GREAT COMMISSION
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R I believe in the Cooperative Program established in 1925. It is our best single-shot, laser beam approach in reaching the world for Christ. I say this at a time when most of our Southern Baptists are largely ignorant of their Baptist history and heritage and the history of missiology. […]
MISSIONARY REFLECTS ON WHAT CASTRO COULDN’T DO
Baptist Press HAVANA — As the world reflects on the legacy of late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, a former Southern Baptist missionary imprisoned by the Castro regime in the 1960s is remembering what Castro could not do: kill the church. Castro died Nov. 25 at the age of 90. David Fite, 82, was arrested in […]
MEMPHIS TEAM AIDS STUDENT WORK IN LONDON
Editor’s Note: In September, the International Mission Board hosted Baptist state paper editors in London to introduce its new media network and to explore its Global Cities Initiative, a part of IMB President David Platt’s desire to introduce a “limitless” missionary force of Southern Baptists. By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector LONDON — The […]
DUNNS CONTINUE MEDICAL MISSIONS, MINISTRY
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — Friends around the world think of Dewey and Bobbie Dunn and medical missions synonymously. The Dunns have been on about 100 missions trips, most of them overseas, and most of them led by Dewey, a gastroenterologist who is still practicing medicine full-time at the […]