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MISSION TEAM SEES MORE THAN 14,000 DECISIONS IN PHILIPPINES

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Members of the mission team to the Philippines included, from left, seated, Dennis Golden, Donald Williams, Mike Hopper, Bryan Morris, Randy Crews, Willie Pounds; standing, Randy Boals, Johnny Johnson, Loren Stephens, Tod Taylor, Mike Nolen, John Hayes and Charles Pratt.

SOMERVILLE — A team of 13 volunteers serving with Cross Partners Ministry recently returned to Tennessee after serving two weeks with more than 60 churches in three Baptist associations on Luzon Island in the Philippines.

Cross Partners Ministry is led by Charles Pratt, who also serves as director of missions for Fayette Baptist Association, based in Somerville. The team witnessed 13,738 professions of faith and hundreds of other church-related decisions, Pratt reported. [Read more…]

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SHOW OF SOLIDARITY AT UNION

By Nathan Hendley
Union University news office

Art students at Union University in Jackson construct a cathedral sculpture to show solidarity with Christians who have lost their churches across the United States and world via acts of violence. — Photo by Kristi Woody

JACKSON — Union University’s art department is building a sculpture to show solidarity with those whose churches have been destroyed in recent months.

Lee Benson, university professor of art and department chair, said the new sculpture was initially envisioned to stand in solidarity with the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris after a fire broke out there in April. He said it was expanded to honor six African-American churches that were burned in Louisiana in April and March and the churches destroyed in Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka. [Read more…]

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‘GAMING’ LEADS TO GOSPEL

Pastor uses online video games for evangelism

By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
ddawson@tnbaptist.org

SPRING HILL — Relationship experts often say that the ability to “speak someone’s language” is a crucial component in making a connection.

Jason Davis, pastor at Grace Park Baptist Church, Spring Hill, is using that philosophy in a unique way. He is forming relations and building bonds — and even evangelizing — through his knowledge of, and interest in, video games. [Read more…]

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SBC ENTITIES ENCOURAGE PROTECTION OF MINORS

By Baptist and Reflector staff

FRANKLIN — Two Southern Baptist entities have cooperated to create a joint statement regarding the prevention of sexual abuse and the protection of minors. 

The document titled, “Encouragements to Associations, State Conventions, and Churches Regarding Abuse of Minors,” is authored by The Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders (SBCAL) and the Officers of the SBC Fellowship of State Executives. The organizations state in the document that the intention is to support associations, state conventions and churches in the prevention of sexual abuse and to encourage the protection of minors. The statement is not intended as a mandate, leaders from both organizations said.  [Read more…]

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HAUN WAS FORETOLD OF ‘GREAT REVIVAL’

FBC Morristown pastor received three messages years in advance of crusade

By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
ddawson@tnbaptist.org

Dean Haun

WHITE PINE — According to the flyers, the Go Tell Lakeway Area Crusade started on April 28.

But the crusade’s chairman, Dean Haun, says it might have actually started long before that.

Haun, pastor of First Baptist Church, Morristown, said the crusade — which resulted in more than 340 professions of faith and drew a four-day attendance total of roughly 17,500 at the Walters State Community College Great Smoky Mountains Expo Center — may have begun to take shape more than a decade ago.  [Read more…]

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POWERFUL MOVEMENT

Lakeway Crusade sees more than 340 professions

By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
ddawson@tnbaptist.org

Evangelist Rick Gage leads a prayer at the Go Tell crusade at the Walters State Community College Great Smoky Mountains Expo Center in White Pine.
— Photos by Brooks Gray

WHITE PINE — During his years of ministry, Dean Haun, pastor of First Baptist Church, Morristown, has experienced both ends of the “success spectrum” in regard to certain events and projects. He has seen some that fall flat and some that surpass all expectations.

So, when he was asked to serve as chairman of the Go Tell America Lakeway Area Crusade, Haun prepared himself — and his team — for what might lie ahead. [Read more…]

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TBMB LEADERS RESPOND TO STUDY

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Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, said one reason that many churchgoers fail to share the gospel is because, “We are driven by our own preferences instead of the Great Commission.”

FRANKLIN — A LifeWay Christian Resources study that finds more Christians have a passion for evangelism than those who actually tell others about Jesus “is an indication of the average Christian not understanding the heart of God,” observed Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.

Davis was one of three TBMB staff members who opined on the LifeWay study. [Read more…]

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IAM4KIDS IS CHANGING LIVES THROUGH MENTORING

By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
ddawson@tnbaptist.org

LAWRENCEBURG — While serving as director of the “IAM4Kids” mentoring program, Steve Seaton is continuously  seeing life-changing transformations take place through the faith-based ministry.

But on an even deeper level, Seaton’s appreciation for mentoring developed long before he joined the “IAM4Kids” staff. It actually happened when he was on the other side of the table. [Read more…]

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