By David Roach
Baptist Press
D. August (Augie) Boto
NASHVILLE — D. August (Augie) Boto has been named interim president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. [Read more…]
EC EXEC. VP AUGIE BOTO NAMED INTERIM PRESIDENT
C-N RECEIVES $1 MILLION GIFT
Baptist and Reflector
JEFFERSON CITY — An estate gift of more than $1 million to Carson-Newman University will allow the school to provide a first for future Carson-Newman students.
A gift from the late Anna Lee and Harrell Pendleton of Morristown endows a full scholarship for four years for one student. [Read more…]
GIVING A PART OF PASTOR’S, CHURCH’S DNA
Editor’s Note: View the Cooperative Program video featuring David Green at the end of this article.
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
David Green
GREENEVILLE — First Baptist Church, Greeneville, has been giving through the Cooperative Program since the Southern Baptist funding channel was established in 1926.
First Baptist currently gives 13 percent of its undesignated receipts through the Cooperative Program, said David Green, who has served as pastor of the East Tennessee congregation for 18 years.
“Giving is part of the DNA of our Baptist family here,” Green explained. “If there’s a need, we’re going to give to it. If there’s an opportunity to expand our missions reach, we’re going to give through that opportunity,” he continued. [Read more…]
DISCIPLE NOW STILL CHALLENGING STUDENTS
By David Dawson
Baptist & Reflector
MOUNT JULIET — Although there are many different components that go into Disciple Now weekend, John Oliver essentially captured the essence of the ministry in just one sentence.
“The students are getting saturated with the Word of God,” he said. [Read more…]
PARTNERING TOGETHER FOR KINGDOM WORK
Baptist and Reflector
KNOXVILLE — At a time when many students were thinking about vacations, a large number of University of Tennessee Baptist Collegiate Ministries and Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) students were planning how they could help Puerto Ricans recovering from two category 5 hurricanes. [Read more…]
GIRLS CHALLENGED TO STAND FIRM AT CONNECTION
By Juliana Wilson
TN WMU Communications & Childhood Missions Specialist, TBMB
Teenage girls and their leaders worship together during Connection which was held during the annual Woman’s Missionary Union Get-Together held March 16-18 in Gatlinburg.
GATLINBURG — Connection 2018, a missions event for girls in grades 7 through 12, took place March 16-18 at the Gatlinburg Convention Center in conjunction with Missions Get-Together.
The group of 272 girls and leaders were among 1,495 total event attendees, including volunteers, exhibitors, personnel and staff who attended Connection and Missions Get-Together. The event centered around the theme “Stand Firm” and key Scripture from Galatians 5:1. Through worship, breakout sessions and hands-on experiences, the young women were challenged to stand firm on the gospel, in their faith and in their walk with Christ. [Read more…]
WMU EVENT LASTS BEYOND CONFERENCE
Attendees encouraged to stay engaged all year
By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
GATLINBURG — From Vickie Anderson’s perspective, the most important piece of WMU’s annual Missions Get-Together and Connection conference doesn’t occur during the weekend of the event.
Rather, it is the days, weeks and months after the conference that are the most significant, and the most satisfying, to Anderson, the executive director of Tennessee WMU.
“For me, the most exciting part is to see how individuals and churches respond to the way the Lord nudged them during the conference,” Anderson said. “To see churches getting involved with a ministry or getting deeper in Bible study or mentoring and ministering to someone — those are the stories that excite us.” [Read more…]
REFUGEE EXHIBIT CREATES PERSPECTIVE
By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
Upon entering the refugee simulation, the women were given a number and instructed to put all personal belongings in a trash bag.
GATLINBURG — According to recent data released by the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, there are 65.6 million displaced individuals, or refugees, in the world today. It is the highest number in recorded history and is growing by hundreds of thousands each year.
Sadly, when hearing numbers like that, there is a tendency to forget that there are faces behind the figures. It almost becomes lost that these are real people, with real emotions and real families. And many of them are hurting.
In hopes of shining a light on these dark developments, national WMU has worked with several other organizations to create the “Refugee Simulation Experience” — an interactive, walk-through exhibit that enables participants to better grasp the hardships that many refugees are facing. [Read more…]
TBMB’S MCLAURIN TAPPED FOR COMMITTEE
Baptist Press
Willie McLaurin
NASHVILLE — Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines has named members of the Committee on Resolutions for the June 12-13 SBC annual meeting in Dallas.
Jason Duesing of Missouri was named as the committee’s chairman by Gaines.Duesing is provost and associate professor of historical theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City and a member of Antioch Bible Baptist Church in Gladstone, Mo. [Read more…]
TENNESCENE APR. 4-17
ASSOCIATIONS
Lawrence County Baptist Association is sponsoring “Returning to Holiness Through Spiritual Renewal” April 22-25. Sessions and locations include Summertown Baptist Church, Summertown, April 21, 7 p.m.; April 22, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.; First Baptist Church, Loretto, 6:30 p.m., April 23; Leoma Baptist Church, Leoma, 6:30 p.m., April 24; and Macedonia Baptist Church, Lawrenceburg, 6:30 p.m., April 25. Gregory Frizzell, founder and president of Gregory Frizzell Prayer & Renewal Ministries, will lead the sessions.
Robertson County Baptist Association will hold its semi-annual meeting April 17 at 6:30 a.m. at Cross Roads Baptist Church, Greenbrier. David Leavell, president of the Tennessee Baptist Convention and pastor of First Baptist Church, Millington, will speak about his vision for reaching the lost. [Read more…]
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