Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
FRANKLIN — In an effort to keep Tennessee Baptists better informed, Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, will do a monthly podcast on Radio B&R.
It will be a monthly “retrospective” of what is happening not only in the TBMB but with churches across Tennessee, said Chris Turner, director of communications for the TBMB and host of Radio B&R. [Read more…]
TBMB leader Randy Davis looks back at Jan 2019 to discuss bivocational ministers, Baptist Collegiate Ministries on mission through disaster relief, Cooperative Program and GOTM giving and prayer.
Chris: Hello and welcome in to this special edition of Radio B&R. I’m your host Chris Turner, and we’re joined here with Randy Davis, our state exec. Randy, welcome in. [Read more…]
Brentwood Baptist communications office
Jamie Bennett, Brentwood Baptist Church missions assistant, thanks a TSA agent as Wesley Henderson, TSA assistant federal security director for the airport, distributes Publix gift cards to the agents.
BRENTWOOD — After a 35-day shutdown, the government is finally open for business again. Yet, government workers are still struggling with the challenges facing them after receiving no pay since before Christmas.
In response to this issue, Brentwood Baptist Church, Brentwood, donated a $20 Publix gift card to each TSA agent working at Nashville’s International Airport. The growing airport serves over 30,000 people daily and requires a TSA staff of 375 workers, the largest team of government employees working within the airport. [Read more…]
By Chris Turner
Director of Communications, TBMB
Lois Perkins
Lois Jodie Jamieson Perkins, “Mottie” as her family called her, closed her eyes and peacefully slipped into eternity last week at the age of 97.
For most of the world, she was a “nobody.” To my mother-in-law and the rest of her family, and the people who knew her, she was definitely somebody. In fact, she was everything. She was the matriarch of a family that included three children, eight grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren with one on the way. Her influence while alive cast a lasting legacy across generations. [Read more…]
Baptist Press
Curtis Woods and Keith Whitfield
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear has named members of the Committee on Resolutions for the June 11-12 SBC annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala.
“These committee members hail from state conventions, national entities, seminaries, local churches and local associations,” said Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area. “Each was chosen because they demonstrate great commitment to the Southern Baptist Convention, and because they reflect both who we are and who we are becoming. They are men and women who desire to see our convention keep the Gospel above all.”
Curtis Woods of Kentucky was named as the committee’s chairman by Greear. [Read more…]
By Steven Aldridge
Union Sports Information Director
Union University coach Mark Campbell addresses his team during a timeout. He recently won his 600th game as a head coach. — Photo by Kristi Woody
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Mark Campbell, head women’s basketball coach at Union University, earned his 600th career victory Jan. 10 with the Lady Bulldogs’ win at Auburn University at Montgomery.
Campbell became the fastest college basketball coach in history, across all divisions, to reach 600 wins. [Read more…]
By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
ddawson@tnbaptist.org
Members of Yellow Creek Baptist Church join hands with TBCH representatives and others for prayer at the dedication service for the facility’s newly improved gym floor in Brentwood.
CUMBERLAND CITY — As the crowd gathered at the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Homes’ campus in Brentwood to celebrate the facility’s newly refinished gym floor on the afternoon of Jan. 13, the basketball court wasn’t the only thing that was gleaming.
So, too, were the faces of many in the crowd as they reflected on the amazing sequence of events that had taken place over the past several months leading up to the dedication service.
“Only God could have orchestrated this,” said Yellow Creek Baptist Church pastor Phillip Chambers. [Read more…]
BRENTWOOD — Below is a replica of the recommendation form which the Committee on Boards and Committee on Committees have jointly developed for Tennessee Baptists to use in recommending individuals for service on Tennessee Baptist Convention boards or committees.
Tennessee Baptists are strongly encouraged to go online at www.tnbaptist.org/boardrec and make recommendations of fellow Tennessee Baptists to serve on the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, one of the seven institutional boards of trust, or one of the eight convention committees, all of which carry on the work of the convention between sessions of the convention. Recommendation form instructions, bylaw requirements and committee preferences are listed on the paper form and are also included on the website. [Read more…]
By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
ddawson@tnbaptist.org
Austin Peay students Chelsey Murphy (left) and Allison Schmittou help repair a home during the BCM’s trip to North Carolina. The BCM students worked with Tennessee Baptist DR teams on the trip.
WARSAW, N.C. — Some were Buccaneers. Some were Governors. Others were Mockingbirds, Volunteers, Tigers, Flames, Raiders and more.
But for a few days in January, this group of more than 100 college students — representing roughly a dozen universities from around the state of Tennessee — came together as one team.
And they had one goal: Serving others in the name of Jesus.
Sacrificing part of their Christmas breaks, the big contingent of Baptist Collegiate Ministry students traveled to Warsaw, N.C., to join forces with Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief teams to provide support and aid to those recovering from Hurricane Florence. [Read more…]
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
Logan Reed (left) and his dad, Scott Reed, display the “Blessing Bags” that Logan gives to the homeless in Shelbyville and Bedford County.
SHELBYVILLE — Last year Logan Reed was in the backseat of his parents’ car when they stopped at a red light and saw a homeless person holding a sign.
He asked his dad about it and Scott Reed, pastor of Midland Heights Baptist Church, Shelbyville, responded the man did not have a home and needed money.
Reed recalled that his son told him, “Dad, we have to do something.” [Read more…]
