By Randy C. Davis President & executive director, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board The Southern Baptist Convention is facing a Nehemiah moment.  Put your sandals on and let’s take a walk through the rubble known as Jerusalem. Nehemiah wasn’t a preacher, or evangelist or any other type of vocational minister. He was a godly layman who heard the distant city was in ruins and the effort to rebuild the walls and

By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director We wanted to gather, and we did … in droves. After a year without an annual Southern Baptist Convention because of the pandemic, and with much on our minds, Nashville hosted the largest gathering of Southern Baptists since 1995 with more than 20,000 messengers and guests. Prior to the convention, I put out a call for Tennessee Baptists to show up

By Randy C. Davis President and executive director, TBMB I love being a Tennessee Baptist, and there are countless reasons why, beginning with our rich history and continuing with our very bright future.  Just a few years ago, the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board exhumed the remains of Tidence Lane, the first Baptist pastor to journey over the Appalachian Mountains and into East Tennessee to invest his life in church planting,