CHURCHES Southwestern Baptist Church, Johnson City, is holding a Grief Share study group every Tuesday. The group will meet through May 31 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. For more information, call 423-928-5521. During its two Easter worship services many members of Crosswind Church, Union City, will be wearing “Forget the Frock” T-shirts instead of new clothes to raise money for Feed the Orphans Ministry in Western Africa. For more information, go to

LEADERS Billy Hoffman, director of development, Southern Baptist International Mission Board, based in Richmond, for 13 years, has been named stewardship development specialist, Tennessee Baptist Convention, effective March 1. Prior to that he was director of annual giving and planned giving, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. Hoffman also served in the U.S. Army, where he was a captain, and has been a church planter and pastor. Nancy Paul,

LEADERS Fred Ward, pastor, First Baptist Church, Huntingdon, for almost 30 years, will be honored on his upcoming retirement on Feb. 28. The celebration will be held at 10:15 a.m., and from 2-4 p.m. For more information, contact the church at [email protected] or 731-986-5000. Charles Nored, Baptist Collegiate Ministries director, Motlow State Community College, Lynchburg, was honored recently by the Tennessee Baptist Convention staff on his 35th anniversary as a

LEADERS Floyd Douglas has retired after serving 48 years as Discipleship Training director of Piedmont Baptist Church, Dandridge, and six years as DT director for Jefferson County Baptist Association, based in Jefferson City. Drake Denning, minister of music, Poplar Grove Baptist Church, Trenton, was ordained to the ministry by Chapel Hill Baptist Church, Milan. His father, Dale Denning, pastor, Chapel Hill Baptist, led the service. Steve Hemann has been called

DEATHS Bob Campbell, 86, retired minister and director of missions, died Jan. 9 in Collierville. He was DOM of Fayette Baptist Association, based in Somerville, for 10 years. He also was pastor, First Baptist Church, Gleason; Macedonia Baptist Church, Kenton; First Baptist Church, Rockwood; and others and helped found First Baptist Church, Macon. Campbell formerly was on the staff of the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board and the New

LEADERS Ron Stewart, pastor, Grace Baptist Church, Knoxville, for 28 years, will retire effective June 1, 2016. He is a former president of the Tennessee Baptist Convention. Stewart also was a member of the TBC Executive Board from 1998-2004 and 2006-07 and of the board of Carson-Newman University, Jefferson City, from 2010-15. Kelly Harden has been named dean of the School of Nursing at Union University, Jackson. Harden, associate dean