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TBMB DIRECTORS ADOPT NO-INCREASE BUDGET AT ANNUAL MEETING

September 25, 2018

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

Clay Hallmark, center, was elected as an officer of the TBMB directors. With him is current chair-elect Mike Kemper, left, and chair Cal Hampton. Kemper will become chair in November and Hallmark will serve as chair-elect.

FRANKLIN — The directors of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board voted without opposition Sept. 11 to recommend a Cooperative Program budget goal of $34,500,000 for 2018-19.

The amount is the same as the 2017-18 budget, observed Steve Marcum of Bellevue Baptist Church, Cordova, chair of the Budget and Ministry Committee.

While the amount remains the same, the percentage that will be forwarded to the Southern Baptist Convention for national causes will increase from 46.64 percent in the current budget to 47.12 percent for 2018-19, Marcum said. The amount remaining in Tennessee will decrease from 53.36 percent to 52.88 percent. [Read more…]

COUPLE’S COMMITMENT TO CP COMES FROM HEART

September 17, 2018

By Lonnie Wilkey
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org

Tom and Rachel Roddy hold their then infant daughter, Vivian, who is now 16 months old. The Roddys lost a second child earlier this year. They are honoring the memory of their son, Elijah David, with memorial gifts through the Cooperative Program.

CONCORD, N.C. — Tennessee natives Tom and Rachel Roddy have experienced the deep joy of having a child and also the excruciating pain of losing a baby at birth. [Read more…]

TBC CP GIFTS STILL ON TARGET FOR FISCAL YEAR

September 17, 2018

Baptist and Reflector

FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $3,047,051 through the Cooperative Program in August. [Read more…]

TENNESSEE BAPTISTS INDICATE COOPERATIVE PROGRAM OPTIMISM

September 12, 2018

By Chris Turner
Director of Communications, TBMB

FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptists indicated their strong support of the Cooperative Program in a recent survey conducted by the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, with more than 26 percent of those surveyed saying they anticipated their churches would increase Cooperative Program giving in 2019.

The survey conducted between July 26 and Aug. 9, 2018, was designed to better understand how strongly Tennessee Baptists felt about the Cooperative Program and the future of Cooperative Program giving. More than 1,000 people responded to the survey which was comprised of both quantitative and qualitative questions. [Read more…]

KNOXVILLE CHURCH CONTINUES MISSION LEGACY WITH GIVING THROUGH CP

August 21, 2018

By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector
ddawson@tnbaptist.org

Photo: Wallace Memorial Baptist Church

KNOXVILLE — John Green, pastor of Wallace Memorial Baptist Church in Knoxville, is proud of his church’s missions-giving legacy. But he has no intention of parking beside it.

Green believes his church should always be moving forward, and should constantly be seeking ways to make an even bigger impact in the future — and he believes giving through the Cooperative Program is the most effective and efficient way to reach those goals.

“As Southern Baptists, there’s no greater thing we can give to than the Cooperative Program,” he said. “If we say we’re really serious about taking the gospel to the ends of the earth, if we say we’re really about training our pastors in theological education, if we say we’re really about starting churches all across our country, if we’re really about ministering to the needy, and the helpless, and the poor, and the disadvantaged. If we say these things are who we are and what we’re about, then the Cooperative Program is the best way for us to put our money where our mouth is. [Read more…]

THE COOPERATIVE PROGRAM BEGINS WITH GRANNY TATE

August 21, 2018

By Randy C. Davis
TBMB President & Executive Director

Randy C. Davis

Everybody has their love language. Granny Tate expressed hers by twisting your ear.

Hard.

Granny Tate was a tiny lady, but she was a giant to me. She really did twist your ear as an expression of love. I wouldn’t have minded if she had been a hugger. She was my Sunday School teacher at Shiloh Baptist Church, Saraland, Ala., when I was 11 years old. Even as a 6-foot plus senior in high school, I’d bend down so she could twist my ear. If Granny wasn’t twisting your ear, you weren’t cool. We loved that woman. [Read more…]

TBC CP GIFTS ABOVE BUDGET

August 8, 2018

Baptist and Reflector

FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,766,596 through the Cooperative Program in July.

For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $26,029,445. The amount is $504,905 or 2 percent over the amount given at the same time last year. After nine months of the current fiscal year, the gifts are $154,445 or 0.60 percent above budget needs. [Read more…]

THE MISSION FIELD WITHIN THE MISSION FIELD

August 7, 2018

By Randy C. Davis
TBMB President & Executive Director

Aparna had no idea what to expect when she arrived in America and on the campus of East Tennessee State University. Johnson City couldn’t be more culturally different from her home in Northern India.

She didn’t know anybody when school started. One day she saw a group of people standing around and wandered over to see what was going on. It was the Pop-Tart Cart, a ministry of the ETSU Baptist Collegiate Ministry. Sure, it is a place to grab a pack of Pop-Tarts and a cup of coffee, but it is really a connecting point for BCMers to share the love of Jesus and the gospel with fellow students. One of them struck up a conversation with Aparna and invited her to the BCM. That invitation changed her life.

She made lots of new friends in the following weeks and frequently heard the gospel. It wasn’t long before she realized her need for a Savior and gave her life to Jesus. Awesome!

But the story gets better. [Read more…]

COOPERATING CHURCHES – WHAT A BLESSING

July 11, 2018

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

Cooperation. Churches talk about it all the time. Churches actually practice cooperation when they participate through the Cooperative Program. But how often do churches truly practice cooperation by “cooperating” with each other? My guess is — not often enough.

The standard definition of cooperation is “the process of working together to the same end.”

In this week’s issue (see photos and story here) is an example of area churches working together to show the love of Jesus in their community. [Read more…]

TBC CP GIFTS ABOVE BUDGET

May 18, 2018

Baptist and Reflector

FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,801,903 through the Cooperative Program in April.

Year-to-date gifts total $17,476,193. After six months of the 2017-18 budget year, CP giving is up $330,759 or 1.9 percent over the same time frame last year.Cooperative Program gifts also are $226,193 or 1.31 percent over budget needs after six months. [Read more…]

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