Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
FRANKLIN — In an effort to keep Tennessee Baptists better informed, Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, will do a monthly podcast on Radio B&R.
It will be a monthly “retrospective” of what is happening not only in the TBMB but with churches across Tennessee, said Chris Turner, director of communications for the TBMB and host of Radio B&R. [Read more…]
Baptist and Reflector
WASHINGTON — The Communications Team of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board captured 15 awards during the recent Baptist Communicators Association awards competition. Awards were presented during the organization’s 64th annual workshop held April 18-21 in Washington, D.C.
In addition, the Baptist and Reflector was cited as the second best overall state newspaper in the Southern Baptist Convention in terms of design and content.
“I’m extremely proud of what the TBMB’s communications team has accomplished,” said Chris Turner, director of communications.
“The projects that were submitted for the competition are a reflection of what our team does to serve Tennessee Baptists on a daily basis.”
Awards included:
First place — Website (adapted template) event: YEC 50 (Corinne Rochotte)
First place — Social media campaign event design: Super Summer (Corinne Rochotte)
First place — Integrated design: Rescue Now (Royce DeGrie)
First place — News writing single article: “Gatlinburg Fires: One Year Later” (David Dawson)
First place — Blog, “Tennesseans Say No to Racism” (Lonnie Wilkey)
First place — Promotional photography: RESCUE NOW theme photo (Royce DeGrie)
Second place — Overall print publication, Baptist and Reflector (Lonnie Wilkey, David Dawson, Corinne Rochotte)
Third place — Video (including podcast) editorial feature, ETSU BCM (TBMB Communications team)
Third place — Photography feature, “An Uplifting Surprise — City Reach Knoxville” (Corinne Rochotte)
Third place — Photography news, Steve Freeman — Summit “rescue the perishing” (Corinne Rochotte)
Third place — News writing, “The ripple effect of the Cooperative Program” (Lonnie Wilkey, Chris Turner)
Third place — Feature writing, Column, “Caught in Bro. Ray’s Crosshairs” (Chris Turner)
Third place — Blog, “Something More Important Than Football” (Lonnie Wilkey)
Third place — Logo design, YEC 50 (Corinne Rochotte)
Third place — Public relations campaign under $25k, The Summit, (TBMB communications group)
By Diana Chandler
Baptist Press
MEMPHIS — Loving your neighbor as yourself is a sure path to overcoming racial prejudice, Southern Baptist women’s minister Donna Gaines said in the March cover article of Today’s Christian Living magazine.
“When we love our neighbor, that erases racial prejudice,” Gaines said in the cover story. “If we were all actually doing that, we’d be able to turn the world upside down just like the early disciples.”
Expounding on what Jesus described as one of the two greatest commandments, the wife of Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines gave an example from her own life in an interview with Baptist Press on March 21.
In 2017, she befriended a 32-year-old African American mother of eight who is now a baptized believer and every Sunday attends Bellevue Baptist Church, where Gaines’ husband is pastor. She and her ARISE2Read ministry have helped the mother find housing and secure a van large enough to transport the mother’s children ranging in age from three months to 14 years. The mother and her oldest child made professions of faith in February after Gaines began influencing their lives. [Read more…]
By Steve York
I am writing today to offer my resignation as teacher to the class. I do not wish to resign but I have been told by a wing of ABC News that I am mentally ill. With that in mind, I will step down if the class so desires me to. You see, I talk to Jesus all the time. Sometimes I bow my head and pray, sometimes I just talk across to him like we are in the car together (much better than bowing my head in prayer while driving). What is worse is that Jesus has spoken back to me in many different ways ranging from verbal communications within my head, in my dreams and by acting on my prayerful requests in a way that shows me that He is God and will answer if He so chooses to do so. This communication is nothing new. It has been going on for years, actually, ever since I was very young and then it really got going after I asked the Holy Spirit to dwell in me and I accepted Christ as my Savior. [Read more…]
Baptist and Reflector
GALVESTON, Texas — During the annual meeting of the Association of State Baptist Publications held Feb. 12-15 in Galveston, Texas, Baptist editors affirmed the work of Baptist state convention executive directors.
Editors unanimously adopted “A Resolution of Appreciation for State Executive Directors.”
The resolution was presented by Gerald Harris, editor of The Christian Index in Georgia, who noted he enjoys a good relationship with his state executive director, J. Robert White. [Read more…]
