Editor’s note: April 27 is recognized as National Administrative Professionals Day. Take this opportunity to thank your church secretary or ministry assistant for the ministry they perform for your church.
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
MURFREESBORO — In some churches they are ministry or administrative assistants. In others, they are secretaries.
It really doesn’t matter which title is used — ministry assistants or church secretaries — they are crucial to the work and ministry of local Tennessee Baptist Convention churches and associations, leaders across the state agree.
The Tennessee Baptist Secretaries Association was formed in 1982 under the auspices of the former Church Training Department of the Executive Board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, now Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.
Forty years later, the TBSA remains a valuable source for fellowship and training for church ministry assistants and secretaries who are on the frontline of ministry in local congregations. [Read more…]