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TENNESSEE BAPTIST STEPS OUT IN FAITH

November 15, 2016

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 — As soon as Amanda McCoy speaks, her new coworkers in London know that “she’s not from

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CITY REACH MINISTRY TOUR PLANNED

November 14, 2016

Baptist and Reflector KNOXVILLE —  A City Reach Knoxville Ministry Tour is planned for Nov. 16-17. During the annual meeting of the Tennessee Baptist Convention held during The Summit next week in Sevierville, messengers will vote on City Reach, a plan to reach the five metro associations in the state. The first effort would be in Knoxville.

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SPREADING THE GOSPEL REQUIRES YOU AND ME

November 14, 2016

By Billy Hoffman Stewardship Development Specialist, TBC Is God leading you and your church to share Christ where He is not known? I ask it this way because spreading the gospel is both an individual as well as a Christian community activity. In Acts 13 we continue to discover the pattern of the call and empowerment of the first missionary team from the church at Antioch.  From this we see

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DR VOLUNTEERS DRIVE ‘MILES FOR SMILES’

November 11, 2016

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector KINGSPORT — Jim Ramey is a busy cattle farmer here who also is disaster relief director of Sullivan Baptist Association, based here. Recently he served a week in Savannah, Ga., leading a feeding unit operation for victims of Hurricane Matthew. Before that he served with the Appalachian Miles for Smiles mobile dental clinic at Sullivan Baptist Church, Kingsport. Right after being

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MISSIONS LEADER JAMES H. SMITH DIES

November 7, 2016

Baptist Press MEMPHIS — James H. Smith, former executive secretary of the Illinois Baptist State Association and later the fifth Southern Baptist Brotherhood Commission president, died Oct. 21 in Memphis. He was 95. Smith spent nearly 50 years in Southern Baptist leadership. At the time of his retirement in 1991 from the Brotherhood Commission where he served 12 years, the agency accounted for more than 530,000 men and boys involved

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CHURCH LEARNS OF IMPACT 77 YEARS LATER

November 4, 2016

By Linda Lawson Still Contributing Writer, Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — After an intense, two-week pilgrimage to Nashville, Woo Jaeo returned to South Korea Oct. 19 with greater insights about the grandfather he never knew. He arrived knowing that Woo Tai-ho, a Presbyterian minister, had studied theology at Vanderbilt  University divinity school in 1939, became a Baptist and a member of Belmont Heights Baptist Church in the city, and went

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TBC CHURCHES BOOST AAEO

October 18, 2016

Baptist Press, B&R Reports ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The nearly $59 million given to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering in 2016 ranks second highest in the offering’s history, the North American Mission Board announced Oct. 12. Southern Baptists gave $58,860,553 in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 to the offering named for noted missionary Annie Armstrong, second only to the $59,463,281 given in 2007, NAMB said.

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DENVER’S BEAUTY, SPIRITUAL NEED SEEN BY NAMB TRUSTEES

October 13, 2016

Mike Ebert Executive Dir. of Public Relations, NAMB DENVER (BP) — Set against a backdrop of freshly snow-capped mountains on the front range of Colorado’s Rockies, North American Mission Board trustees saw firsthand how Southern Baptist church planters are countering spiritual darkness in the midst of a recreational paradise. On the Monday before their Oct. 4-5 meeting, trustees loaded onto buses to visit church planters at their places of ministry.

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REACHING THE 94 PERCENT IN NYC

October 7, 2016

By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. -— “If you reach somebody in New York City you have the potential of reaching the world,” said Kevin Cabe, former Knoxvillian who is now a Baptist missionary in New York City. “People move here for fame, fortune, film, finance, food, and everything in between. Many Tennesseans are moving here too as we speak. … Then people

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CITY REACH TO IMPACT METRO COMMUNITIES

September 27, 2016

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Reaching Tennessee for Christ will involve reaching the largest metropolitan areas in the state, according to leaders within the Tennessee Baptist Convention. To help accomplish that goal, City Reach will be launched during this year’s Summit Nov. 13-17 at the Sevierville Convention Center, pending approval from messengers at Summit. City Reach was approved by members of the TBC Executive Board during

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TBC CHURCHES BOOST AAEO

October 18, 2016

Baptist Press, B&R Reports ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The nearly $59 million given to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering in 2016 ranks second highest in the

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