Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
By Chuck Kelley Jr.
President, New Orleans (La.) Baptist Theological Seminary
Chuck Kelly
My childhood was different than most. I grew up in the home of a funeral director. For the first years of my life, we literally lived in the funeral home itself in an apartment above the family rooms, casket room and chapel.
Far earlier than most, I learned an essential truth about life: Death is inevitable for all. [Read more…]
By Chris Turner
Director of Communications, TBMB
Lois Perkins
Lois Jodie Jamieson Perkins, “Mottie” as her family called her, closed her eyes and peacefully slipped into eternity last week at the age of 97.
For most of the world, she was a “nobody.” To my mother-in-law and the rest of her family, and the people who knew her, she was definitely somebody. In fact, she was everything. She was the matriarch of a family that included three children, eight grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren with one on the way. Her influence while alive cast a lasting legacy across generations. [Read more…]
By Grace Thornton
Baptist Press
GREENVILLE, S.C. — In 37 years as a pastor, Rudy Gray sat at the bedside of many terminally ill church members. He stood at gravesides with many grieving families. He sought to speak comforting words — at least he hopes they were comforting. [Read more…]
