Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
June 9, 2016
By Lonnie Wilkey, Editor Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD – Retired Tennessee Baptist Convention staff member and long-time disaster relief volunteer Mike Overcash died June 8 following an apparent heart attack. Overcash, 80, a former employee of LifeWay Christian Resources who served several Tennessee Baptist churches as minister of music, was on the staff of the […]
June 8, 2016
Baptist Press ST. LOUIS (BP) — John Avant, pastor of First Baptist Concord in Knoxville, Tenn., will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference, according to an announcement by fellow Tennessee pastor Steve Gaines. Gaines, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tenn., stated in an April 27 announcement to Baptist […]
June 8, 2016
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches gave $2,554,604 through the Cooperative Program in May. In the first seven months of the 2015-16 fiscal year, Tennessee Baptists have given $20,303,904 through the CP giving channel to meet missions and ministry needs in Tennessee and around the world.
June 6, 2016
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector WILLISTON — Thankfully the wait wasn’t 40 years, a popular biblical period. It would have been more tolerable if the wait had been 40 days, another common biblical period. Instead Williston Baptist Church here waited about five years to begin to use its new building. The […]
June 2, 2016
Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptist Foundation, based here, has developed a new website, updated its logo, and published new printed materials, announced Bill Gruenewald, president-treasurer. The Foundation worked with 5by5 Marketing Agency in Brentwood, which was selected for their expertise in working with faith-based non-profits, said Gruenewald.
June 2, 2016
Start now preparing for 2017 Youth & High School Bible Drills — Edwards By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector OLD HICKORY — Recently some youth enjoyed the culmination of months of work — by competing in the 2016 State Youth and High School Bible Drills of the Tennessee Baptist Convention. The competitions […]
June 2, 2016
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Tennessee Baptists’ giving through the Cooperative Program is trending upward. For the first time in five years (since the 2010-11 budget year), Cooperative Program gifts from Tennessee Baptist Convention churches not only are up over the previous year, but they are above projected needs midway into […]
June 1, 2016
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — Steve Freeman, senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Springfield, will be nominated for the presidency of the Tennessee Baptist Convention at The Summit in November. Freeman currently serves as chair of the Executive Board of the TBC. He is the only announced nominee to date. Chattanooga-area […]
May 25, 2016
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector ROGERSVILLE — Stuart Franklin, a member of East Rogersville Baptist Church here, and his friend Donnie Lawson are the “heroes” who rescued Carlie Trent, 9, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Trent was taken by her uncle from school on May 4 and found eight […]
May 23, 2016
By Bill Sorrell Contributing Writer MARTIN — Driving down Interstate 40 toward Jackson, saw something that made him almost swerve off the road — a larger-than-life picture of himself on a billboard advertising the University of Tennessee at Martin where he is a senior. “I was looking around at the other cars. Do they know […]
May 20, 2016
By Benjie Shaw Campus Minister, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis While many still associate Millennials with college campuses and young adult idealism, the reality is that the vast majority of Millennials has moved on from college and is firmly entrenched in an all too familiar narrative of idealism confronting reality. In 2014 the […]
May 20, 2016
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector BRENTWOOD — The Greatest Generation. Baby Boomers. Generation X (Baby Busters). Generation Y (Millennials). Generation Z. Knowing the names assigned to the generations in today’s world can be confusing and hard to understand. Only one thing is certain about each generation — they all need to know Jesus […]