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August 28, 2019

Ashley Perham, a summer intern for the Baptist and Reflector, interviews pastor Micah Creekmore of Living Water Church, Murfreesboro, while writing news articles on City Reach Memphis.

If you have read the Baptist and Reflector regularly over the past few weeks, you have seen the name Ashley Perham quite often.

Ashley is a student at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro who served as an intern for the paper this summer. Though she received college credit for the experience, the B&R was the real winner.

Ashley did an outstanding job. She assisted in writing feature stories, proofing the paper and did some photography. She took on every assignment we gave her and responded with professionalism and enthusiasm. She took every task seriously and always gave her best effort. [Read more…]

TENNESSEE’S ‘LOTTIE MOON’ STEPS DOWN

August 28, 2019

Missions specialist Kim Margrave served with Tennessee Baptist Mission Board for 22 years

By Ashley Perham
Baptist & Reflector intern

Kim Margrave, seated in the center on first row, has helped Tennessee Baptist churches become involved in missions all over the world. She is shown here last December with coordinators of the Guatemalan partnership in Guatemala.

FRANKLIN — In the past 22 years, Tennessee Baptists have been able to partner in missions with ministries in more than 20 states and countries due largely to the work of Kim Margrave, the “Lottie Moon of Tennessee,” as Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, describes her.

Margrave, volunteer missions specialist, has been working at the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board since 1997. She stepped down from her role Aug. 8 to join the staff of ClearView Baptist Church, Franklin, as missions director. [Read more…]

UNION ALUMNI COUPLE USES ‘FAME’ TO SHARE FAITH

August 28, 2019

By Sarah Goff
Union news office

Juliana and Ben Wilson have had a busy year as he has competed in the American Ninja Warrior TV show and she won the Mrs. Tennessee pageant in March and finished in the top 10 at the Mrs. United States pageant earlier this month.

JACKSON — For Union alumni couple Ben and Juliana Wilson, 2019 has been a year of unexpected opportunities, from Ben competing on the “American Ninja Warrior” TV show to Juliana winning the Mrs. Tennessee United States crown and earning a top 10 finish in the recent 2019 Mrs. United States National Pageant in Las Vegas.

“This has been a crazy year, to kind of sum it all up,” Juliana said. “A year ago, neither one of us expected to be doing the things that we’re doing right now. It’s just cool that God’s just given us this opportunity, and we want to try to make the most if it, however long it lasts.” [Read more…]

SPORTS OFFER OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE GOSPEL WITH KIDS

August 27, 2019

By Ashley Perham
Baptist & Reflector intern

Jon Visser provides instruction to children attending a sports camp hosted earlier this summer by Shiloh Baptist Church, Nashville, at Donelson Christian Academy. — Photo by Tara Workman

NASHVILLE — As a boy, Jon Visser had dreamed of playing professional baseball.

He got his opportunity in the early 2000s in the Texas-Louisiana League, now called the Central League. But while he was traveling through Texas, God gave him a different dream.

“While I was traveling around on the busses, I was thinking, ‘How can I serve God with my talents and how can I best do it?’ and that’s where Elevation Sports kind of (started),” said Visser, a member of First Baptist Church, Fairview. [Read more…]

UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO COOPERATIVE PROGRAM ENABLES TENNESSEE BAPTISTS TO REACH MONUMENTAL PLATEAU

August 26, 2019

By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
ddawson@tnbaptist.org

Celebrating a milestone moment
Tennessee Baptists recently reached a major plateau, surpassing the $500-million mark in all-time giving to the SBC for Cooperative Program allocated useage. In the photo to the right, Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, presents a check to Augie Boto of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
– Photo by Royce DeGrie

FRANKLIN — The oversized check was just a prop. The significance of the moment, however, was very real.

During a recent ceremony at the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board’s Church Support Center in Franklin, TBMB president and executive director Randy C. Davis presented a Goliath-sized check to Augie Boto of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.

The amount was for $500,000,000, which represents the recent plateau that was reached by Tennessee Baptists in the category of Cooperative Program Allocation gifts to the SBC. Davis said the milestone speaks volumes about Tennessee Baptists’ commitment to sharing the gospel. [Read more…]

BROWNSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH — TWO PASTORS IN 60 YEARS

August 24, 2019

By Ashley Perham
Baptist & Reflector intern

BROWNSVILLE — Brownsville Baptist Church, Brownsville, has had only two pastors in the last 60 years: H. K. Sorrell and Bob Connerley, who is celebrating 30 years at the church at the end of the month.

“I don’t know how much that says about him and me, but it says a lot about the people here that they would put up with two guys for 60 years,” he said. “That’s kind of unusual.” [Read more…]

KNOXVILLE CHURCH ‘DIES WITH DIGNITY’ TO HELP CHURCH PLANT

August 23, 2019

By Ashley Perham
Baptist and Reflector intern

A praise team leads worship at Hope Fellowship in Knoxville. The church is meeting in a facility provided by Centerpointe Church in Knoxville. Centerpointe sold its $4 million facility to Hope Fellowship for $1.

KNOXVILLE — Hope Fellowship, Knoxville, started in 2016 as a church plant from Shoreline Church, Knoxville, with a vision to be a Christ-centered, multi-ethnic and generational church, saved by Jesus and changed by Jesus, according to Dominique Lee, pastor of Hope Fellowship.

At the same time, Centerpointe Church, Knoxville, was making the difficult decision to “die with dignity,” said pastor Jim Millirons. [Read more…]

PARKBURG BAPTIST SEES RESULTS OF CHURCH REVITALIZATION

August 22, 2019

By Ashley Perham
Baptist & Reflector intern

Danny Rachel, pastor of Parkburg Baptist Church, Pinson, shares how his congregation has benefited from church revitalization in a new Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions video.

PINSON — Approximately 75-80 percent of churches are stagnant or in decline, and as many as 10 percent of Southern Baptist churches may cease to exist in the next 10 years unless fundamental changes are made, according to Steve Holt, church services director for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.

The Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions and the Cooperative Program makes it possible for the TBMB to partner with churches in church revitalization, a process which moves a plateaued or declining church toward a healthy and sustained environment. [Read more…]

BOWDEN TALKS FAITH, FOOTBALL AT STUDENT EVENT

August 22, 2019

By Timothy Cockes
Baptist Press intern

Former college football coach Tommy Bowden, center, stands with Clay Hallmark, left, pastor of First Baptist Church, and Bryant Hollingsworth, head football coach at Lexington High School.

LEXINGTON — Tommy Bowden, former college football coach at Clemson University, recently spoke to hundreds of Tennessee high school football students about the importance of making good decisions in life.

Bowden said he wanted to emphasize for the more than 700 players, representing more than five counties and 12 schools, the importance of having the right priorities in life by putting God first. The event was held at First Baptist Church, Lexington, on July 18. [Read more…]

RURAL MEDICAL CLINIC IS ‘A GOD THING’

August 21, 2019

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

Leaders of Servolution Health Services include, from left, Deborah Chumley, Alicia Metcalf, Judy Robertson and Donnie Bannister. Chumley and Metcalf are co-directors while Robertson and Bannister are board members.

SPEEDWELL — A rural medical clinic, supported in part by local Christians, many of whom are members of Baptist churches, is trying to make a difference in one of the state’s poorest counties in Appalachia.

Claiborne County in northeast Tennessee, bordering the Kentucky state line, is impacted by poverty (according to IndexMundi, an international data portal), broken homes (50 percent of school-age children are raised by someone other than biological parents) and an opioid crisis (the county is the seventh highest county in the United States with the most opioid painkillers per capita). [Read more…]

Missions specialist Kim Margrave served with Tennessee Baptist Mission Board for 22 years

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