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Church to honor organist, pianist for half century of service WOODBURY — First Baptist Church Woodbury will honor two of its longtime accompanists, Douglas Jennings and Barbara Nichols Parker, during a special service Sunday, Oct. 4, marking 50 years of volunteer service as the church’s organist and pianist, according to a news release from FBC Woodbury. Jennings and Parker have both lived in Woodbury their entire lives and have belonged

FRANKLIN — José Delgado spent two years in a Cuban prison camp in the 1960s because he was a Christian. Delgado, now a member of Third Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, shared his story with the Directors of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board at their fall meeting Sept. 14. His son, David Delgado, systems administrator with the Mission Board, interpreted for him. Cuba operated the camps — known as UMAP, or

Prayer sustains 70-year-old farmer after flash flood DEL RIO — Terry Lamb opened his front door on the morning of July 11, he expected to see rain. Instead, he saw floodwater creeping toward his house. “Lord, when I opened the door, there was water,” said Lamb, a 70-year-old farmer who was born and raised on his family’s land. “It was within, I guess, 12 foot of my house.” Heavy rainfall

JACKSON — Bob R. Agee spent 16 years as the much-loved president of Oklahoma Baptist University, but long before — and long after — that, he belonged to West Tennessee as a native son, a Union University student, a pastor, a professor and administrator, and a mentor to a generation of Tennessee Baptist ministers. He died Sept. 26, four days before his 88th birthday. “He was one of the kindest

MEMPHIS — With Chuck Herring announcing his plans to retire after 23 years as senior pastor at Collierville First Baptist, the church has now turned to a transitional interim. His name is … Chuck Herring. The unique situation materialized after many months of prayer and research by Herring and the church staff, who ultimately felt the Lord was telling them that Herring himself was the best choice to lead the