Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
by Tim Ellsworth
Baptist Press
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (BP) — The hometown Vikings may have fallen just short of playing in this year’s Super Bowl, but that hasn’t diminished the enthusiasm of Twin Cities churches and Christians in their evangelism efforts surrounding the event. [Read more…]
By David Roach
Baptist Press
DALLAS — Two years after withdrawing from a closely contested election for Southern Baptist Convention president, North Carolina pastor J.D. Greear once again will be nominated for SBC president, Florida pastor Ken Whitten announced today (Jan. 29). [Read more…]
BCM students spend part of Christmas break repairing homes, sharing love of Jesus
By David Dawson
Baptist & Reflector
Ellie Davenport, left, Taylor Elgouhary, middle, both students at MTSU, work with MTSU associate campus minister Haley Cowley on a project during the BCM’s trip to Orange, Texas, over the Christmas holidays.
ORANGE, Texas — The recent holiday season was more about spiritual gifts than Christmas gifts for a group of roughly 100 Baptist Collegiate Ministry students. [Read more…]
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
Editor’s Note: You can listen to Phillip Hardee discuss the rebuilding efforts of Tennessee Baptists on the island of Dominica during Episode 14 of Radio B&R, the official news podcast of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.
Hurricane Maria devastated Dominica last September, leaving many homes destroyed or heavily damaged.
FRANKLIN — The devastation caused by Hurricane Maria on the island of Dominica was “eye-opening and jaw-dropping,” said Phillip Hardee, a disaster relief volunteer from Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova.
Hardee was part of an assessment team (along with Wes Jones, disaster relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board and Don Owen of First Baptist Church, Morristown) who visited the island in late November to assess the damage done by the Category 5 hurricane last September.
Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief accepted the challenge to coordinate relief efforts on the island, specifically the village of La Plaine, and will provide relief materials and supplies throughout 2018. [Read more…]
by Julie McGowan
Baptist Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Southern Baptists’ support of international missions through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is 4.1 percent ahead of the same time frame as last year, according to a report by Rodney Freeman, IMB treasurer and vice president of support services. [Read more…]
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, B&R
I was driving home last week from West Tennessee on a rainy, foggy night. I wasn’t entirely familiar with the area so I trusted my phone’s GPS system — not a good idea. [Read more…]
By Chris Turner
TBMB Communications Director
The plane taxied to a stop and flight attendants opened both the forward and rear doors for us to disembark. As I rose from my seat, a smell hit me like a sucker punch and triggered a gag reflex. People cleared a space. Fortunately, it turned out well for everyone.
The smell continued its assault on my senses. As we pulled away from the airport and navigated around the emaciated cow meandering down the expressway, I asked the missionary, “What’s that smell?”
“Oh, that’s just Calcutta,” he responded with a chuckle. “You get used to it after a few months.” [Read more…]
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
Morgan Clough displays a copy of his new book, Renegade Preacher: From Rape to Recovery.
MADISONVILLE — Morgan Clough would be the first to admit he did not take the traditional path to becoming a Southern Baptist pastor.
In fact, he was well off the path for most of his first 35 or so years of life — having been raped 52 times as a child and later falling into a life of alcohol, addiction, and crime. [Read more…]
By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
Pastor Tony Crisp, center, leads in prayer at the conclusion of the New Year’s Eve service at Eastanallee Baptist Church.
EASTANALLEE — Instead of ringing in the new year, Tony Crisp was bringing the Word of God.
All 66 chapters of the Bible. In one night.
Crisp, the lead pastor of Eastanallee Baptist Church, led a five-hour service on New Year’s Eve in which he guided attendees down the “Crimson River of Redemption” — from Genesis to Revelation — in a brisk, but detailed, journey through the Scriptures. Crisp used a systematic method of preaching that he used several times in the past while leading similar sessions and seminars. [Read more…]
Baptist and Reflector
NASHVILLE — A federal appeals court ruled Jan. 9 to uphold the results of a 2014 statewide vote in Tennessee that provided for stricter abortion regulations in the state. [Read more…]
