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HUGS AND HANDSHAKES: TBMB DESSERT FELLOWSHIP
Continuing the tradition, the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board hosted its annual dessert fellowship for Tennessee families who attended this year’s SBC annual meeting at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. The dessert fellowship was held on the night of June 13.
Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, far right, prays with Willie McLaurin, his wife, Antonia, and daughters SiChanna and Sierra during the dessert fellowship sponsored by the TBMB prior to the start of the SBC annual meeting. McLaurin formerly served on the TBMB staff and is the interim CEO of the SBC Executive Committee. — Photo by Van Payne / The Baptist Paper
Memphis native Jonathan Epting, left, now of California, visits with friends Daniel and Candace Jerkins, of Hickory Withe First Baptist Church, Eads, where he serves as associate pastor.
Visiting at the TBMB Dessert Fellowship were, from left, Randy Roper, director of missions, Big Emory Baptist Association, Harriman; Scott White, associate pastor, Central Baptist Church, Crossville, and his wife, Beth; and Kirk Casey, director of missions, Cumberland Plateau Baptist Association, Crossville.
Meeting for the first time at the dessert fellowship were, from left, Keith Johnson, senior pastor, East Maryville Baptist Church, Maryville, and his wife, Nancy, and Kim and Todd Capps, associate pastor, Victory Baptist Church, Mount Juliet.
Ryan Wicker, associate pastor of education at First Baptist Church, Dickson, his wife, Rebekah, and children, from left, Emmett, John and Madie enjoyed the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Anaheim. They attended a dessert fellowship at the convention sponsored by the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.