FRANKLIN — The Tennessee Baptist Mission Board launched a new website (TNBaptist.org) Dec. 15. The site is the sixth version of the organization’s internet site since first establishing a web presence in 1998.
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“It’s taken a lot of work to get to this point, and we are excited about the release of this new website,” said Chris Turner, the TBMB’s communications director. “We believe this site will be more user-friendly and reflect the changes the organization has gone through during 2025.”
The TBMB spent the year reorganizing its ministries to align with the ministry priorities identified by Tennessee Baptists through the Acts 2:17 initiative. That process allowed Tennessee Baptists to speak into the direction they believed God is leading the network of Tennessee Baptist churches. Once those priorities were established, the TBMB restructured to support those ministry needs.
“It was obvious from the beginning that trying to adapt the old website was not going to work,” Turner said. “It was certainly a case of new wine and old wineskins, so we enlisted a developer to help us begin from scratch. We transferred content that would remain, but everything else needed to be created. The challenge has been creating a website while new ministry emphases have been in development.”
Turner said there is still work to be done on the website because additional content needs to be added.
“We recognize what we did was launch a website that will continue to evolve,” he said. “We did not launch a comprehensively completed website. The intent is that our ministry specialists continue to evolve the site with resources that support and serve churches.”
One feature this site has that previous versions did not have is predictive search. Users can access the search function from every page and begin typing the topic for which they are searching, and the search feature will offer related terms.
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“This should be a help to users,” Turner said. “The search is keyword driven. We feel we’ve covered the basics of key terms users enter, but we will be expanding that as the site matures and offers a broader net for capturing a user’s intent.”
As with identifying ministry priorities, Tennessee Baptists can offer constructive feedback on the site’s operation by visiting the feedback form at qrcodes.pro/webfeedback.
“Our desire is to offer a website that serves their ministry needs,” Turner said. “If people don’t see something they are looking for and need, we encourage them to submit their comments via the form.” B&R
