Phil Young’s morning routine in preparing for class looks a bit different than most college professors. He arrives on site around 7:45 in the morning.
As Roan Creek began to flood in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, 15 Mexican men who were living alongside the creek had to vacate their homes and find higher ground. They gathered underneath a tree in front of the house of …
“Helene ripped through Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and here in East Tennessee, leaving a path of destruction we have never seen in our lifetimes,” said Tennessee Baptist Convention president Jay Hardwick.
These teams represented just a few of the hundreds of disaster relief (DR) volunteers from Tennessee, Texas and other states serving people from the Newport area to as far northeast as the Mountain City area.
Less than one week after Hurricane Helene ravaged Enon Baptist Church’s facilities, the church members gathered for their Wednesday night activities as normal, albeit in a different location.
“It rivals Katrina, maybe even ‘beats’ Katrina, in terms of its reach and its impact,” said Wes Jones, disaster relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.
“At the end of the day, God is the originator, designer and inventor of it all,” said Pruitt, national Next Gen director for the North American Mission Board. “He also gets to define what things are.”
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.
Antioch Baptist Church in Humboldt recently honored Aubrey Wilson for 50 years as a faithful leader of young men through Royal Ambassadors (RAs).
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.
