Tennessee Baptists establish new record for giving through Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] FRANKLIN —  Tennessee Baptists gave a record $1,920,733 through the Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions in 2018-19. The amount is $77,222 over the old record of $1,843,511 which was set during 2016-17. Tennessee Baptists have come to understand and value that “any way you slice it, Tennessee is a

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] SPEEDWELL — A rural medical clinic, supported in part by local Christians, many of whom are members of Baptist churches, is trying to make a difference in one of the state’s poorest counties in Appalachia. Claiborne County in northeast Tennessee, bordering the Kentucky state line, is impacted by poverty (according to IndexMundi, an international data portal), broken homes (50 percent of school-age

By Chris Turner [email protected] DUSSELDORF — Statistics will tell you Germany is a Christian nation. Heinrich Derksen will tell you it is not.  “The (spiritual) soil in Germany is very hard,” he says. “It is a post-Christian country and in many ways a pre-Christian country. It has drifted far from being the birthplace of the Reformation and Protestantism. Martin Luther brought the Bible to the people. We now must bring