TBC EXECUTIVE BOARD PROPOSES NAME CHANGE FOR ITSELF
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD – Members of the Executive Board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention approved a name change for itself during their April 20 meeting held at Brentwood Baptist Church. The name change is only for the Executive Board and does not apply to the Tennessee Baptist Convention. The TBC […]
MARTHA PITTS ELECTED WMU PRESIDENT
By Lonnie WilkeyEditor, Baptist and Reflector GATLINBURG — Martha Pitts, a member of Germantown Baptist Church, Germantown, was elected the 30th president of Tennessee Woman’s Missionary Union on April 9. Her election took place during the Tennessee WMU annual meeting held in conjunction with the annual Missions Get-Together and Connection held each year at the […]
MOVING FORWARD WITH THE IMB
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game. We’ve all heard that sports cliché and frankly it is one I don’t particularly like. Yes, it does matter how you play the game, but the point of playing the game is to win. However, […]
THE IMB: WE MUST REFOCUS AS WE RESET
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director Almost everyone has seen the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels perform their amazing aerial acrobatics. These highly skilled pilots are among the best of the best in the world. The “Blues” as they are nicknamed, fly $60 million F/A-18s inches apart at hundreds of miles per hour. There is […]
BAPTISTS AND A STRANGE IGNORANCE ABOUT MISSIONS
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R I was born in 1937, which was just 12 years after the Cooperative Program of the Southern Baptist Convention was born. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offerings for missions were already institutions. For 79 years I’ve known these three factors as the sources for […]
IMB ADDRESSES BAPTISM NUMBERS
By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE (BP) — Decreases in the number of baptisms and new churches reported by International Mission Board missionaries during the past decade reflect changes in data-reporting methods and missions strategy, not a lack of evangelistic ministry. That’s the conclusion of a March 21 IMB news release issued in response to […]
10,356 FILIPINOS MAKE COMMITMENTS
Baptist and Reflector SOMERVILLE — A team of nine missions volunteers serving on the Cross Partners Ministry team recently returned from two weeks in the Republic of the Philippines where they served with more than 30 churches in four different Baptist associations. The team participated in more than 100 evangelistic crusades with Filipino Baptists across […]
MISSIONS SUPPORT: NO RESERVES, NO RETREATS, NO REGRETS!
Blake Montgomery Pastor, First Baptist Church, Sneedville As I began planning for sharing this year’s information on the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering at our church, I recently read the inspiring account of another missionary who God called and used in a unique way. William Borden’s life is a story that should challenge every church and […]
THE IMB: HOW DID WE GET HERE?
By Randy C. Davis TBC Executive Director It was a dark day two weeks ago when International Mission Board President David Platt stepped to the microphone to inform Southern Baptists that 983 missionaries and 149 IMB staffers were stepping away from their involvement in taking the gospel to the nations. Dr. Platt described it best […]
NEARLY 1,000 MISSIONARIES RETURN HOME
IMB ‘reset’ will allow missions agency to have balanced budget for 2016-17 By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector RICHMOND — Trustees of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board were told Feb. 24 that 988 missionaries are leaving the missions field along with 149 stateside staff members. Last August IMB President David Platt announced that […]