By Gary D. Myers
Baptist Press
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Charles S. “Chuck” Kelley Jr., announced his plan to retire at the end of the current academic year during Founders’ Day chapel Oct. 2. [Read more…]
By Gary D. Myers
Baptist Press
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Charles S. “Chuck” Kelley Jr., announced his plan to retire at the end of the current academic year during Founders’ Day chapel Oct. 2. [Read more…]
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WASHINGTON — The United States Supreme Court declined hearing challenges to Tennessee’s abortion measure, Amendment 1. The action was taken Oct. 1. [Read more…]
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
FRANKLIN — The results of a recent survey about estate planning, contracted by the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Foundation, are disappointing but not surprising, said Bill Gruenewald, president of the Tennessee Baptist Foundation.
The survey, conducted by LifeWay Research, revealed that more than half of Southern Baptist pastors do not have a will, trust, living will, electronic will, legacy story or durable power of attorney with health care directives.
The survey also indicated that pastors age 18-44 are least likely to have a will (31 percent) or a durable power of attorney with health care directives (14 percent). Even among pastors closest to retirement (ages 55-64 and 65-plus), the portion of those who have a will is just barely a majority (54 percent), according to the survey. [Read more…]
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CHATTANOOGA — A group of Tennessee Baptist volunteers worked hard over the summer months to help transform the Baptist Collegiate Ministry building at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.
Mark LeMay, properties management specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, and a five-member team from Red Bank Baptist Church in Chattanooga tore out a 25-ton fireplace that was hindering the work of the BCM due to poor space allocation, LeMay said.
The Red Bank volunteers (Doyle Pittman, Chuck Young, Ricky Rector, John Klein and Paula Sanderson) worked three days in hot, muggy conditions to tear out the chimney and fireplace. Afterwards, four volunteers (Robbie McGriff, Ronny Sandlin, David Allen and Hu Morris) from Parkway Baptist Church, Goodlettsville, and Long Hollow Baptist Church, Hendersonville, helped clean out the debris and pour a concrete floor which added about 500 square feet of usable ministry space, LeMay noted. [Read more…]
By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
ddawson@tnbaptist.org
FRANKLIN — This Christmas, hundreds of underprivileged children in Tennessee will be receiving Barbie dolls and board games, matchbox cars and model planes.
More importantly, they will be receiving hope through the good news of Jesus.
All across the state, Tennessee Baptists are participating in “Christmas Backpacks for Children and Teens” — a ministry that originally started in 2001 with a group of GAs (Girls in Action) in Georgia. The ministry, which has grown dramatically since its inception, provides children with brand-new backpacks, filled with toys, card games, hygiene products and more. [Read more…]
By Diana Chandler
Baptist Press
NASHVILLE — “Employees are fine” a day after a bullet destroyed a fifth-floor window at LifeWay Christian Resources’ downtown Nashville complex, company spokesperson Carol Pipes told Baptist Press. [Read more…]
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KINSTON, N.C. — The feeding unit of Sullivan Baptist Association, along with supporting units from Watauga, Holston and Knox County Associations, are set up and are providing 6,000 meals a day, said Wes Jones, disaster relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. [Read more…]
By Lonnie Wilkey
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
CONCORD, N.C. — Tennessee natives Tom and Rachel Roddy have experienced the deep joy of having a child and also the excruciating pain of losing a baby at birth. [Read more…]
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FRANKLIN — The feeding unit of Sullivan Baptist Association, along with supporting units from Watauga, Holston and Knox County Associations, will be heading to Cary, N.C. on Sept. 16 to begin responding in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. [Read more…]
By Julie McGowan
IMB office
Editorial note: Statements from Platt and Dunbar follow this release.
RICHMOND, Virginia — After receiving the resignation of Dr. David Platt, IMB president, to be effective at the Sept. 27, 2018, trustee meeting, the Executive Committee of the board of trustees of the International Mission Board voted in a special meeting Sept. 13 to approve Dr. Clyde Meador as interim president starting Sept. 27, subject to full board approval. [Read more…]
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