By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist & Reflector
JACKSON — Jordan Easley is passionate about the Cooperative Program.
And, he’s eager to share that passion with younger pastors throughout Tennessee and the Southern Baptist Convention. [Read more…]
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist & Reflector
JACKSON — Jordan Easley is passionate about the Cooperative Program.
And, he’s eager to share that passion with younger pastors throughout Tennessee and the Southern Baptist Convention. [Read more…]
By Tim Ellsworth
Union News Office
JACKSON — Ten years ago, an EF-4 tornado ripped the Union University campus apart.
The campus sustained about $40 million worth of damages. The whirlwind destroyed buildings and dozens of students were injured in the storm. [Read more…]
BCM students spend part of Christmas break repairing homes, sharing love of Jesus
By David Dawson
Baptist & Reflector
ORANGE, Texas — The recent holiday season was more about spiritual gifts than Christmas gifts for a group of roughly 100 Baptist Collegiate Ministry students. [Read more…]
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
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…]
Baptist and Reflector
BRENTWOOD — 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…]
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.
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…]
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
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…]
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…]
By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
EASTANALLEE — Instead of ringing in the new year, Tony Crisp was bringing the Word of God.
All 66 chapters of the Bible. In one night.
Crisp, the lead pastor of Eastanallee Baptist Church, led a five-hour service on New Year’s Eve in which he guided attendees down the “Crimson River of Redemption” — from Genesis to Revelation — in a brisk, but detailed, journey through the Scriptures. Crisp used a systematic method of preaching that he used several times in the past while leading similar sessions and seminars. [Read more…]
Baptist and Reflector
NASHVILLE — A federal appeals court ruled Jan. 9 to uphold the results of a 2014 statewide vote in Tennessee that provided for stricter abortion regulations in the state. [Read more…]
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