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SALEM HOLDS COMMUNITY-WIDE DEDICATION

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector

Pastor Joel Pigg of Salem Baptist Church, Trenton, welcomes guests to a community-wide dedication service on Jan. 11. In the background are, from left, speakers Danny Sinquefield, Randy C. Davis, David Leavell, Steve Gaines, and Roger Stacy.

TRENTON — A host of Tennessee Baptists joined members of Salem Baptist Church, Trenton, in a community-wide dedication service on Jan. 11.

“We are so excited about what God has done here,” said Salem pastor Joel Pigg.

Pigg was called by the church as pastor in 2006 by 37 people. It was his first church. As he reflected on that call, he noted the church had experienced a split one week before he preached his first sermon. [Read more…]

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TENNESCENE JAN. 24-FEB. 6

Matt Tomlin recently began serving as interim pastor of North Jackson Baptist Church, Jackson. He previously served 14 months as interim pastor of Woodland Baptist Church, Brownsville.

Bradford Smith, teaching pastor/elder at The Way Church of Clarksville, has written Brave Rifles: The Theology of War, a first-hand glimpse of the gritty realities of war through the lens of the Bible. Smith has been in active duty since 1995, including combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He surrendered to the call to preach in 2007 and joined the staff of The Way Church in 2011. The book is available in paperback and on Kindle. Smith can be reached at bsmith@thewayofclarksville.com for more information. [Read more…]

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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BOARDS, COMMITTEES SOUGHT

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submit, button, online, form, computer, keyboardBRENTWOOD — Below is a replica of the recommendation form which the Committee on Boards and Committee on Committees have jointly developed for Tennessee Baptists to use in recommending individuals for service on Tennessee Baptist Convention boards or committees.

Tennessee Baptists are strongly encouraged to go online at www.tnbaptist.org/boardrec and make recommendations of fellow Tennessee Baptists to serve on the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, one of the seven institutional boards of trust, or one of the eight convention committees, all of which carry on the work of the convention between sessions of the convention. Recommendation form instructions, bylaw requirements and committee preferences have been added to the paper form and are also included on the website. [Read more…]

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SBC 2018 FOCUSES ON EVANGELISM: GAINES

Baptist Press

DALLAS — “Testify! Go. Stand. Speak.” will be the theme for the 2018 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 12-13 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, SBC President Steve Gaines has announced.

Evangelism is the urgency of the theme anchored in Acts 5:20, Gaines, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church Cordova, told Baptist Press Jan. 17. [Read more…]

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COORDINATOR DESCRIBES NEEDS IN DOMINICA

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…]

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LOTTIE MOON OFFERING 4.1% ABOVE LAST YEAR’S PACE

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…]

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RADIO B&R EP. 14: DOMINICA & TN DISASTER RELIEF

Tennessee Baptists have the opportunity to be involved in disaster relief on the island of Dominica, which was nearly totally destroyed. Phillip Hardee, of Bellevue Baptist Memphis, is leading that effort and answers questions in this episode for how you can be involved.

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‘RENEGADE’ PASTOR FINDS PEACE IN JESUS

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…]

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NATIONAL CP GIFTS RISE

Baptist Press

NASHVILLE — Year-to-date contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention’s portion of the Cooperative Program are 0.98 percent ahead of the same time frame at the end of 2016 and 3.69 percent under the SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget projection for the year according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee President Frank S. Page. [Read more…]

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A LOOK AT NEW TAX LAWS

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector

FRANKLIN — In December members of Congress passed what may be the most significant changes in federal tax laws in more than three decades.

The law is so new, however, that specific impact on churches and ministers is still unknown, according to multiple sources.

Chris Kelly, executive vice president and general counsel for the Tennessee Baptist Foundation, has been monitoring the tax laws, especially as they relate to charitable giving. [Read more…]

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