“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.
“It has been a catastrophic afternoon,” said Randy Davis, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board executive director. “Our hearts are broken for the people in Cocke, Washington, Unicoi, Greene and other counties that may be affected.”
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.”
Steve Gaines, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tennessee, is transitioning out of the pastorate and into a ministry as an itinerant preacher, he announced today (Sept. 22) during the church’s worship services.
Days before the start of a new school year, more than 1,730 college students and leaders gathered at Falls Creek Conference Center in Davis, Oklahoma,
As pastor of a cowboy church, Byron Ash has a strict rule: No poaching allowed. That’s not in reference to cattle or horses, but to church members.
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