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SEXUAL ABUSE AND ABORTION BILLS TOP FEBRUARY HEADLINES

March 6, 2019

FRANKLIN — Sexual abuse instances, as reported by The Houston Chronicle in February, “needed a bright light to be shined on it,” said Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.

In his monthly podcast reflecting on what happened in convention life the previous month (Episode 25 of Radio B&R), Davis said the silver lining of the horrible news is that it has made churches more aware of the issue and that it needs to be addressed.

“I think the fact that any child is abused anywhere, under any circumstances, should grieve us all to the very core,” Davis said. “I think it is hellish. I think it is demonic. I think that the predator who does this kind of deed is going to attempt to go wherever there are children, including churches,” he noted.

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TBC CP GIVING STABLE

March 5, 2019

Baptist and Reflector

FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptists gave $2,683,061 through the Cooperative Program in February.
After four months of the current fiscal year, Cooperative Program gifts total $11,864,790. Receipts are $33,879 or 0.3 percent what was given at the same time last year, but the amount is $364,790 or 3.17 percent above budget needs. [Read more…]

TBC CP GIFTS ABOVE BUDGET

February 5, 2019

Baptist and Reflector

FRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $3,535,940 through the Cooperative Program in January.

For the year-to-date, churches have given $9,181,729 through the Cooperative Program. The amount is $81,281 or 0.9 percent below what was given after the first quarter of the last fiscal year. The amount, however, is $556,729 or 6.45 percent over budget needs.

“We are grateful that our churches are responding to the challenge of meeting our Great Commission needs not only in Tennessee, but throughout our nation and world,” said Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.

— Lonnie Wilkey

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.

MOVEMENT & MILESTONES

January 8, 2019

Five Objectives progress, anniversaries top news of 2018

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

FRANKLIN — Statistics indicating that the convention-adopted Five Objectives are having an impact in Tennessee, along with significant anniversaries of Tennessee Baptist Mission Board ministries, were among the top stories in the Tennessee Baptist Convention in 2018.

In addition, two TBC entities underwent changes in leadership in 2018.-

Baptisms in 2017 increased by slightly more than 2 percent over the previous year, according to the 2017 Annual Church Profile. Baptism numbers for 2018 are still being collected from ACP reports. [Read more…]

SMALL CHURCH, GENEROUS HEART

December 26, 2018

FBC, Andersonville, supports both CP and a missionary couple

Each year, First Baptist Church,Andersonville, holds a missions market to raise enough money for the International Mission Board to fund one missionary couple for a year. Church members make and sell things like baked goods, knitted items and household decorations. They also auction off services like mowing lawns or cleaning windows. — IMB photo

Editor’s Note: Churches all across Tennessee and around the nation are in the process of collecting the annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. Read how a Tennessee church meets the needs of a missionary couple while continuing to give more than 10 percent of its undesignated receipts through the Cooperative Program.

Baptist Press

ANDERSONVILLE — A Tennessee Baptist church is proving that missions giving can be both/and, not either/or.

For the past several years, First Baptist Church, Andersonville, has taken on the challenge of supporting a missionary couple at the cost of $90,000 each year. [Read more…]

REMEMBERING THE LORD OUR GOD IN 2018

December 23, 2018

By Randy C. Davis
TBMB President & Executive Director

You may be overrun with Christmas activities and see a busy 2019 blowing in like a thunderstorm racing across a Kansas prairie. Last minute gifts, parties, travel to be with loved ones, and on it goes. We get to this point of the year and it seems we try to squeeze about six months of activity through the funnel of a couple weeks. We seldom slow down or stop long enough to remember. [Read more…]

WHAT THE INCREASE IN CP GIFTS REALLY MEANS

November 26, 2018

By Matt Tullos
Stewardship Development Specialist, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board

The ovation lasted longer than most at the October monthly staff meeting as Randy C. Davis shared the news that churches gave 2.2 percent more through the Cooperative Program than they did last year. Tennessee Baptists are the heroes in the narrative of Cooperative Program giving. While many state conventions struggle to fund ministries and missions, we’re experiencing growth. This increase appears to be nothing short of miraculous. We spent time together, thanking God for Tennessee Baptists and their pastors. Our churches said many things through their giving. Here are seven: [Read more…]

SIXTEEN REASONS FOR TITHING TO THE CHURCH

November 5, 2018

Editor’s Note: Share these 16 reasons to tithe with your congregation on two Sundays this year by requesting two tithing inserts that can be placed in your Sunday worship bulletins. E-mail us at mtullos@tnbaptist.org and let us know how many you need. We will ship them directly to your church for free.

By Matt Tullos
Stewardship Development Specialist, TBMB

So, your pastor preaches on giving? Thank him. A pastor who invites members to tithe is inviting them into a life-changing, soul-transforming experience that affects every area of their life. In truth, it’s unfair to you if he’s not teaching you about this principle that has changed history in ways we’ll never completely know until we get to heaven!

Here’s the short list of reasons you should be giving a tithe (10 percent of your income) to your local church.

(1) It’s worship. Whether you’re in a church with electric guitars or pipe organs, everybody should have an opportunity to give because from Genesis to Revelation, giving is true worship. Think about what you are doing when you illogically say goodbye to a large slice of your income that you could be using somewhere else, doing something else. You are saying, “Lord, above everything, I believe in You. It all belongs to You! This is a symbol of my complete belief, trust, and dependence on You to be my everything.” [Read more…]

TEN THINGS WE DON’T WANT TO SAY ABOUT THE CP

October 11, 2018

By Matt Tullos
Stewardship Development Specialist, TBMB

In the Go Fund Me era, it’s easy to minimize the Cooperative Program. We get so caught up in the daily grind of ministry and we forget all the things that make the Cooperative Program shine so brightly in a dark world. It begs the question, “What would your church, Tennessee, and the world look like without CP?” Here are a few uncomfortable realities.

Without the Cooperative Program, we would be saying: [Read more…]

Five Objectives progress, anniversaries top news of 2018

FBC, Andersonville, supports both CP and a missionary couple

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