Though no longer affiliated with a Southern Baptist Convention entity, World Changers is still “Baptist through and through,” said David Flatt, executive director of World Changers.
“I got as low as I could possibly go and when I was at the bottom I looked up and there was Jesus standing with His arms open saying, ‘Son, come home.’ ”
One of the primary reasons stained glass windows are still popular today is that they tell the gospel story, observed Andrew Young, owner of Pearl River Glass Studio in Jackson, Mississippi.
Longtime Tennessee Baptist editor Lonnie Wilkey shares how methods in publishing have changed, but the role of state papers remains important.
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).
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