By Lonnie Wilkey
Baptist and Reflector
HARRIMAN — When Taylor Phelps came to the pastorate of Caney Ford Baptist Church in the Midtown community of Roane County in 2014, the church had about 22 members, he recalled.
Phelps said it did not take long for him to discover that Caney Ford was known in the Midtown community as the “family chapel or family church.”
And, for some people in the community that reputation was negative because they felt they could never be a part of the church because they had not grown up in it. [Read more…]


