“The Lord woke me up in the middle of the night and I sat up in the bed, wide awake, ” said Mike Dawson, who retired from full-time ministry in 2005 after 52 years.
Over a three-week period last month, Tennessee BCM groups joined 47 other campus-based/church-based college ministries from across the U.S. to have a kingdom impact on their generation through BeachReach.
Living less than a mile from the church, Charlie and his wife Teresa decided to attend one Sunday. The couple wasn’t unfamiliar with Wildwood. What they found was a congregation of just 25 people, nearly all over age 70.
Braving stormy conditions, more than 500 women from across Tennessee converged at Dickson First Baptist Church on April 4-5 for the annual Tennessee Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) Get-Together.
“This conference is specifically designed for those who feel called to lead the Church through worship in various capacities,” said Jay Barbier, one of the organizers of the event.
Mal Underwood, a Brentwood Baptist DR volunteer, described the relief effort as a multi-stage process. “Flood relief is about triaging first responses — getting the mud out and helping families return to a degree of normalcy,” he said.
“When the doctor says you have stage four, he says hope is off the table,” Jay Barbier explained. “But when I get to lean in on Jesus, I have hope in Him.”
Evangelism and discipleship are linked and cannot be separated. We have been called to make disciples, not converts, and we do that one person at a time. Jesus always had time for the individual, and we must follow His example.
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