Tennessee Baptists hold largest-ever Disaster Relief training in state. “I was expecting about 200 participants but we doubled that. I was blown away,” said Wes Jones, Disaster Relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.
In a society where the average stay of a minister at a church is normally less than six or seven years, it would be hard pressed to find a church that matches Central Baptist Church in Crossville, Tennessee.
Lonnie Wilkey, who has been with the Baptist and Reflector since 1988 and has served as editor since 1998, has put together a collection of his columns in “Faith, Family and Life’s Lessons: Reflections of a Christian Journalist.”
Tennessee Baptist Mission Board directors recommend same Cooperative Program allocation budget for coming year but propose change in distribution formula — a move away from what has been advocated for at the SBC level for the past 15 years.
In a highly anticipated vote on the final day of this year’s SBC Annual Meeting, messengers narrowly defeated the proposed Law Amendment which specified that only men can serve “as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”
Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting voted June 11 to disaffiliate with First Baptist Church Alexandria, Virginia, by a ballot vote of 6,759 (91.78 percent) to 563 (7.65 percent).
The six presidential candidates were invited to address the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders tonight (June 9) at the Indiana Convention Center.
Virginia pastor Mike Law addresses his proposed amendment to the SBC Constitution. The amendment comes up for its second of two consecutive votes by messengers in June at the SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
“The same God who delivered victory for the Israelites is the same God who continues to carry us through whatever we may be facing.” —Jonathan Howe
Legal Strategies Committee chair Josh Hetzler of Virginia assured EC members they are working “expeditiously” and understand the “urgency” of the matter.
