By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
JACKSON – Nashville native Jim Henry has a love for deacons that grows stronger with each passing year.
From the surgeon who shined the shoes of his prayer group members at First Baptist Church, Orlando, Fla., to the small group of deacons who “had his back” at a rural church in Mississippi during days of racial tension in the 1960s, Henry knows his ministry has been made easier by deacons who held to the servant model of leadership. [Read more…]