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WAFFLE HOUSE KILLER ARRESTED FOLLOWING ‘SCARY’ SUNDAY

NASHVILLE (BP) — With the lone suspect in a Nashville mass shooting still on the loose Sunday morning, area churches tightened security and heightened their focus on prayer.

“It was a scary thing to a lot of our people,” said Cathey Williams, the ministry

assistant at Hickory Hollow Baptist Church, which is less than two miles from a Waffle House where Travis Reinking is accused of killing four people and injuring four others shortly after 3 a.m. April 22.

After a Waffle House customer wrestled away Reinking’s AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, the suspected gunman fled seminude and likely armed, according to police. Some 160 law enforcement officials searched the area for more than 24 hours before Reinking, 29, was arrested today (April 23). [Read more…]

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TENNESSEE WMU TEAM PRAYS FOR BOSTON AREA

By Juliana Wilson
TENNESSEE WMU

A Tennessee WMU prayerwalking team prays over Kenneth Esterhuizen, a Southern Baptist church planter from South Africa. From left, are Shelby Lord, Colleen Richardson, Yolanda Heuser, and Bobby Turner.

BOSTON, Mass. — A team of Tennessee Woman’s Missionary Union ladies recently traveled to the Greater Boston area to prayerwalk. The group, consisting of Bobby Turner, Shelby Lord, Yolanda Heuser, and Colleen Richardson, worked with Sam Taylor, director of missions for the Greater Boston Baptist Association.   [Read more…]

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HENRY MATRIARCH GOING STRONG AT AGE 100

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector

Jim Henry, right, and his brother, Joe, helped their mother, Katherine Henry, recently celebrate her 100th birthday. The brothers credit their mother for their spiritual foundation. Jim Henry is a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention while Joe is an active Baptist layman.

HENDERSONVILLE — Former Southern Baptist Convention President Jim Henry is 80 years old and his brother, Joe, is 77. But rest assured, when their 100-year-old mother, Katherine Henry, speaks, they still listen.

And, they each call her at least once a day. “She won’t let us get off the phone,” Jim laughed.

The Henrys held a birthday celebration dinner for their mother a few days after her birthday with about 75 family members and friends present.

Mrs. Henry, who served for many years as a church secretary at several Nashville-area churches, is proud of the men her boys became. [Read more…]

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LOTTIE MOON GIFTS UP 4.4 PERCENT

Baptist Press

RICHMOND  — Southern Baptists’ contributions to support international missions through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering are 4.4 percent ahead of last year’s pace, according to a report by Rodney Freeman, IMB treasurer and vice president of support services. [Read more…]

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CHURCH HAS TRUST IN COOPERATIVE PROGRAM

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist & Reflector

Editor’s Note: View the Cooperative Program video featuring Todd Hallman at tnbaptist.org/CP, or see below.

ELIZABETHTON — Though the Cooperative Program did not come into existence until decades after First Baptist Church, Elizabethton, was established 175 years ago, missions has always been important to the church.

“From the very beginning, the church has been missions oriented,” said pastor Todd Hallman. “They’ve always given to missions in some way, shape, or form.” [Read more…]

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TENNESCENE APR. 18-MAY 1

LEADERS

Russ Wilkins

Russ Wilkins, former associate pastor for students, missions, and education at First Baptist Church, Huntingdon, has been named director of missions for Shiloh Baptist Association. Wilkins is a former admissions counselor at Union University in Jackson and youth pastor at Oakfield Baptist Church, Oakfield. Shiloh Association is comprised of 47 churches in McNairy and Hardin Counties.

John Adams, a former university administrator at Union University in Jackson who is now serving in his 31st interim pastorate at Spring Hill Baptist Church, Trenton, and Gayle Alexander, who has served as pastor of churches in Tennessee and Mississippi, have written Who Is In Control of The Church: A Guide to Unity and Peace Within the Church. The two men have more than 100 combined years of experience. The book offers a “big picture” look at what the church expects from the pastor, what the pastor should expect from the church, and how people in positions of authority can work together under the submission of God’s ultimate authority. The book is available on Amazon by title and authors. [Read more…]

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NEB., TENN. DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD

By Samantha Gobba / WORLD
(From Baptist Press)

NASHVILLE — Nebraska and Tennessee this month joined more than a dozen states that have cut funding for abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, a pro-life campaign that has seen mixed results. [Read more…]

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EC ELECTS DIVERSE PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE

By David Roach & Diana Chandler
Baptist Press

The EC presidential search committee comprises (clockwise from left) Stephen Rummage, Adron Robinson, Rolland Slade, Steve Swofford, Joe Knott and Carol Yarber. Photo by Rebecca Manry, Baptist Press.

NASHVILLE — The six-member committee charged with nominating the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee is marked by racial and gender diversity as well as a mixture of clergy and laypeople. [Read more…]

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GOTM GIFTS FALLING SHORT OF GOAL, NEEDS

Baptist & Reflector 

FRANKLIN — With just over four months to go in the 2017-18 Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions year, gifts are running 4.75 percent behind the same point last year. This leaves the offering about 18 percent short of the $1.925 million goal. [Read more…]

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FORMER TBC PASTOR QUADRUPLES CP GIVING

By Erin Roach
Baptist Press

Ben Mandrell is the pastor of the Denver-area Storyline Fellowship in Arvada.

DENVER — A Denver-area church plant, in only its third year, voted to quadruple its giving through the Cooperative Program, realizing the value of the missions-support system that has aided them — and through which they can help reach the world for Christ. [Read more…]

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