Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
August 15, 2016
TN Baptist Disaster Relief Slow-moving storms are causing record flooding and significant damage as they move across South Louisiana. Thousands of residents have evacuated, at least three people have died and there is significant property damage and loss to more than 50,000 homes. At least three interstates are closed by the flooding of the Amite […]
August 15, 2016
CHATTANOOGA — “Now we’re offering ‘writing on the wall,’” said David Harrison, somewhat facetiously, referring both to the time God did just that (see Daniel 5) and to captioning for hard of hearing people. “It’s incredible.” Recently The Access Church premiered captioning of its Sunday morning worship service, Harrison reported. The use of the technology […]
August 12, 2016
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector LIVINGSTON — Damon Corley will be 90 years old in November, but you would never know it by looking at him. Still spry and active, Corley is not only the pastor of West Fentress Baptist Church in Jamestown, he also just recently accepted the role of associate moderator […]
August 12, 2016
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector FRIENDSVILLE — Mention the name Charles Bailey in the Tennessee Baptist Convention and some people remember him as one of the primary leaders of Concerned Tennessee Baptists during the mid-1990s and early 2000s. Concerned Tennessee Baptists was a conservative organization comprised of Baptists across the state concerned about […]
August 11, 2016
Carson-Newman news office JEFFERSON CITY — Carson-Newman University has been named again a “College of Distinction” and a “Christian College of Distinction” for 2016-2017. It is the third consecutive year the university has received the honor. Carson-Newman is one of a select group of colleges deemed to demonstrate results across the organization’s Four Distinctions — […]
August 11, 2016
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Jay Barbier, minister of high school students, First Baptist Church, Millington, is from South Louisiana, so when one of his students offered to “drop a lure” his first thought was fishing. Then the young man and Joseph Brasher, minister of education at the church, […]
August 10, 2016
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches contributed $2,729,426 through the Cooperative Program in July. For the year-to-date, Tennessee Baptists have given $25,998,780 through the CP giving channel. After nine months of the 2015-16 budget year, CP gifts are $519,926 or 2 percent over the amount given at the same time last year.
August 9, 2016
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Ternae Jordan Sr., senior pastor of Mount Canaan Baptist Church in Chattanooga, is not surprised at all by the violence he sees in America today. He has been leading efforts to combat violence since the early 1990s while he was serving as a pastor in Fort […]
August 9, 2016
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector ROGERSVILLE — Hunger is a reality across the United States and Tennessee is no different. Some people view hunger, however, as a need found only in the larger cities in the state. That’s simply not true. According to Feeding America, one in six people in Tennessee struggles with […]
August 8, 2016
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Former Tennessee Baptist Convention staff member Timothy James “Tim” Holcomb died Aug. 5 at his home in Franklin following a bout with cancer. He was 72. A native of Texas, Holcomb served on church staffs in Texas, Missouri, Georgia, and Mississippi before joining the staff of the Baptist Sunday School […]
July 29, 2016
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector HARRIMAN — Sanny Bowman, Jack Bowman, and Don Alford participated in the first Vacation Bible School of Caney Ford Baptist Church here in 1936. Eighty years later, they are still attending VBS at the church. In fact, they have only missed a few years of VBS […]
July 29, 2016
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector KNOXVILLE — A student from an Asian country visited the Baptist Collegiate Ministry Center at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville with her friend, Ladda Reed, who is from Thailand. She felt comfortable as she enjoyed the luncheons for UTK students and met other students, even […]