DOM USES MECHANICAL SKILLS TO REACH ESKIMOS
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector SHELBYVILLE — This summer Tim Key found a new way to minister to the Eskimo or Inupiat people in Alaska he has grown to love. He repairs their four-wheelers or ATVs. Key, director of missions, New Duck River Baptist Association, used to be a motorcycle mechanic. […]
CHURCH ACCEPTS MISSIONS WORK AT HOME
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector SMYRNA — Missions work is never easy but Parkway Baptist Church here is ready for challenges, said Pastor Dan Parker recently. In fact, Parkway Baptist sees God work the most when it accepts the greatest or most unusual challenges, he explained. “It’s crazy,” said Parker. So […]
IMMIGRATION: A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
By Rondell Treviño Evangelical Immigration Table As Christians, we know the Bible is the breathed out Word of God (II Timothy 3:16), and our blueprint on how to morally live vertically in relationship to God and horizontally in relationship to others in the world. We know God Himself has graciously given us the Bible, comprised […]
DO YOU NEED TO HEAR A GOOD STORY?
By Chris Turner Director of Communications, TBC At one time, I was a correspondent for the International Mission Board traveling throughout Latin America writing stories for The Commission magazine. I was in Honduras working with a missionary who was at the end of a very long year of helping the people rebuild their country following […]
GOTM UP 5.3 PERCENT
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — When the books closed on Aug. 31 for the 2015-16 Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions, the final tally for the year totaled $1,713,258. The total was a 5.3 percent increase over the amount given for the 2014-15 GOTM. In addition, 1,220 churches gave to the offering in 2015-16, a net […]
FUTURE BRIGHT FOR IMB, PREDICTS SCOTT HARRIS
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — As Scott Harris enters his eighth and final year as a trustee of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, he has witnessed a lot of change. He became a trustee in 2009 just after the economy had bottomed out. He has served with three different […]
3,202 DECISIONS FOR CHRIST REPORTED IN BRAZIL
By Will Hall Baptist Press BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (BP) — Southern Baptists returning from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, are sharing testimonies of widespread revival in churches, communities, prisons and schools, following an 8-day schedule of crusades, medical ministries and other outreach efforts in this South American country. Wayne Jenkins, director of evangelism and church growth for […]
NATIONAL WMU ELECTS SANDRA WISDOM-MARTIN
By Julie Walters WMU Communications BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Sandra “Sandy” Wisdom-Martin, executive director of WMU of Texas, was unanimously elected executive director/treasurer of Southern Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union, by the WMU executive board during a special called meeting July 29-30. Wisdom-Martin succeeds Wanda Lee, who has served as executive director of the 128-year-old missions organization […]
‘THE WORLD HAS COME TO TENNESSEE’
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector KNOXVILLE — A student from an Asian country visited the Baptist Collegiate Ministry Center at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville with her friend, Ladda Reed, who is from Thailand. She felt comfortable as she enjoyed the luncheons for UTK students and met other students, even […]
YEC TEAM SERVES IN GUATEMALA
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — “We went to Guatemala to change people there and show them Jesus, but we came back with changed hearts and opened eyes,” said Jania Howe, 17, who ministered recently in Guatemala. Howe and 77 other teens and adults served in Guatemala as a part […]