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BCMs PROVIDE STUDENTS OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH, SUPPORT

January 24, 2019

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org

Morgan Owen

MARTIN — A college campus can be a frightening place for a first-time student.

Baptist Collegiate Ministry organizations can play a major role in helping incoming high school students adjust to college life, said Morgan Owen, BCM director at the University of Tennessee in Martin.

While some high school grads enter college with friends from hometown or church, many do not, Owen noted. BCMs provide incoming freshmen opportunities “to connect” with like-minded students, he said.

At UT-Martin, the BCM offers Survival, a four-day event for incoming students, freshmen and transfers.

The objective for Survival is to cultivate a faith-based community setting for incoming students as they make the adjustments to college, Owen said. [Read more…]

REPAIRING HOMES, HEARTS

January 24, 2019

BCM teams join forces with Disaster Relief members to provide aid to hurricane victims in North Carolina

By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
ddawson@tnbaptist.org

Austin Peay students Chelsey Murphy (left) and Allison Schmittou help repair a home during the BCM’s trip to North Carolina. The BCM students worked with Tennessee Baptist DR teams on the trip.

WARSAW, N.C. — Some were Buccaneers. Some were Governors. Others were Mockingbirds, Volunteers, Tigers, Flames, Raiders and more.

But for a few days in January, this group of more than 100 college students — representing roughly a dozen universities from around the state of Tennessee — came together as one team.

And they had one goal: Serving others in the name of Jesus.

Sacrificing part of their Christmas breaks, the big contingent of Baptist Collegiate Ministry students traveled to Warsaw, N.C., to join forces with Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief teams to provide support and aid to those recovering from Hurricane Florence. [Read more…]

TBC CP GIFTS NEAR BUDGET

January 23, 2019

Baptist and Reflector

FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptists gave $2,987,042 through the Cooperative Program in December.

For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have contributed $5,645,789 through the CP giving channel. Gifts are $200,833 or 3.4 percent below the amount given after the first two months of the last fiscal year. They are $104,211 or 1.81 percent below budget needs.

“We are thankful for the faithful and generous giving through the Cooperative Program by our Tennessee Baptist churches to support great missions and ministry enterprises at home and around the world,” said Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.

IT’S DONE! TBMB PAYS OFF DEBT FROM 1999

January 22, 2019

Baptist and Reflector

FRANKLIN — Jan. 10 proved to be a “red-letter day” in the life of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.

The TBMB paid off the remaining balance of an $8 million loan that originated in 1999 to begin construction of Carson Springs Baptist Conference Center in Newport and Linden Valley Baptist Conference Center in Linden.

“God’s favor has been upon us over the last few years,” observed Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the TBMB. [Read more…]

9-YEAR-OLD HAS BIG HEART FOR HOMELESS

January 22, 2019

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org

Logan Reed (left) and his dad, Scott Reed, display the “Blessing Bags” that Logan gives to the homeless in Shelbyville and Bedford County.

SHELBYVILLE — Last year Logan Reed was in the backseat of his parents’ car when they stopped at a red light and saw a homeless person holding a sign.

He asked his dad about it and Scott Reed, pastor of Midland Heights Baptist Church, Shelbyville, responded the man did not have a home and needed money.

Reed recalled that his son told him, “Dad, we have to do something.” [Read more…]

GRANT TO HELP APPALACHIAN OUTREACH CONTINUE REACHING THOSE IN NEED

January 14, 2019

From Carson-Newman University

Carson-Newman student Mya Hall of Calhoun, Georgia, helps with sorting in Appalachian Outreach’s food pantry. AO was the recent recipient of a grant awarded by the East Tennessee Foundation via the Jefferson Health Care Foundation Fund.

JEFFERSON CITY – Carson-Newman University’s Appalachian Outreach Ministry (AO) was the recent recipient of a grant from the East Tennessee Foundation. The grant comes from the Jefferson Health Care Foundation Fund.

The funding will help in three specific areas of need, according to AO Director Jean-Ann Washam, a member of Knoxville’s Corryton Church.

“Part of this grant will go toward building wheelchair ramps for families who are unable to get in and out of their home safely – specifically the elderly and disabled,” said Washam, who explained that, in turn, provides a safer environment and allows them to live in their homes longer. [Read more…]

UNION TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR BICENTENNIAL PLANNING COMMITTEES

January 14, 2019

From Union University

JACKSON, Tenn. — Union University is accepting applications for committees that will plan events for the university’s bicentennial during the 2022-2023 academic year.

“Union’s bicentennial celebration will be a significant event in the life of the university,” said Catherine Kwasigroh, Union’s vice president for institutional advancement. “For 200 years, by God’s grace, Union has been a significant institution in the state of Tennessee with an impact that has been felt around the world. Our heritage and history is worth celebrating, and we’re looking forward to doing that during our bicentennial.” [Read more…]

BEAR CREEK BAPTIST — ONE YEAR LATER

January 11, 2019

Parsons church experiences revitalization one year
after fire destroys sanctuary

By Lonnie Wilkey
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org

Bear Creek Baptist Church pastor Adam Wood points to the future site of the church on four acres that the church recently purchased.

PARSONS — As the first anniversary of the fire that destroyed the building of Bear Creek Baptist Church in Parsons approaches, the memory of Jan. 21 is still vivid in the mind of pastor Adam Wood, down to the exact minutes.

Bear Creek had ended its evening worship service and, as was typical, Wood and his wife were the last to leave — that night at 7:24 p.m. Eight minutes later he received a call that the church was on fire.

As they returned to the church they could see the glow. By the time they arrived the fire had engulfed the church and in two or three hours the church burned to the ground, Wood recalled. [Read more…]

THREE BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONS VOTE TO BECOME ONE

January 11, 2019

By Lonnie Wilkey
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org

DOVER — Three distinct Baptist associations voted during their annual meetings to become JST Baptist Association.

For nearly 20 years, Judson Baptist Association, Stewart Baptist Association and Truett Baptist Association have been linked together by sharing one director of missions.

William Gray served all three associations as DOM until two years ago when he stepped down to become pastor of Bear Spring Baptist Church in Dover. [Read more…]

GUNSHOTS FAIL TO HALT SERVICES AT CALVARY BAPTIST

January 9, 2019

By Lonnie Wilkey

lwilkey@tnbaptist.org

Church members had to board up their entrance on Saturday, Jan. 5, following vandalism that occurred the night before. Bullet holes were fired through the doors and several windows of the church in addition to the windows of the church van. — Photo by Lonnie Wilkey

LAFAYETTE — Though the front entrance door and windows were shot out of Calvary Baptist Church on Friday night, Jan. 4, and bullet holes remain inside the church, services went on as usual on Sunday, Jan. 6.

Attendance was slightly below the normal average attendance of between 140-150 people each week, noted Johnny Beaver, pastor of the Bledsoe Baptist Association congregation in Macon County. It is located between Lafayette and Red Boiling Springs. [Read more…]

BCM teams join forces with Disaster Relief members to provide aid to hurricane victims in North Carolina

Parsons church experiences revitalization one year after fire destroys sanctuary

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