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January 8, 2025
By David DawsonManaging editor, Baptist and ReflectorBy David Dawson [email protected] FRANKLIN — The Baptist and Reflector’s website had a record-breaking year in 2024, setting new high-water marks in “reader engagement” and other categories. Listed below is a recap of some of the website’s most popular stories over the past 12 months: Title: Confessions of a Concerned […]
January 7, 2025
By Chris TurnerEditor, Baptist and ReflectorFRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist experienced a most historic 2024 marked by unique milestones and events that ranged from the celebratory to the tragic. Hurricane Helene: Hurricane Helene devastated East Tennessee in September, triggering the largest disaster relief response in state Baptist history. The storm, which made landfall in Florida as […]
January 3, 2025
By Baptist and ReflectorFRANKLIN — Wes Jones, disaster relief specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, announced on Friday, Jan. 3, that teams are needed as soon as possible to complete remodeling jobs in East Tennessee. Jones noted that the homes need remodeling after being gutted in the flood recovery process. Jones said that team […]
December 27, 2024
By Baptist and ReflectorCORRYTON — Over the past 22 years, Corryton Church has given away nearly $1 million dollars of gifts and goods to families in East Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky. And the church apparently has no plans of stopping. This year, the church focused much of its attention on flood victims in Chuckey, including […]
December 26, 2024
By Baptist and ReflectorFRANKLIN — Tennessee Baptist Convention churches got the 2024-25 budget year off to a strong start with gifts of $2,913,890 through the Cooperative Program in November. The gifts are $148,386 or 5.4 percent more than what was given during the first month of the last fiscal year. Gifts are just $2,777 or […]
December 25, 2024
By Baptist and ReflectorMERRY CHRISTMAS! — From the staff of the Baptist and Reflector and the entire TBMB team.
December 23, 2024
By Lonnie WilkeyEditor, Baptist and ReflectorERWIN — For the past four years, Central Baptist Church in Erwin has participated in the Christmas Backpacks Ministry of Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. This year was to be no different, according to Kerri Kite, who spearheads the ministry at Central Baptist. The church held a Christmas in August event […]
December 20, 2024
By Lonnie WilkeyEditor, Baptist and ReflectorJOHNSON CITY — As the end of the fall semester draws to a close many campus organizations cut down on activities so students can finish projects and report and begin studying for final exams. At East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, the first full week in December is known […]
December 19, 2024
By Baptist and ReflectorNEWPORT — For the past two-plus years, Lonnie Wilkey, editor of the Baptist and Reflector, has been renting an apartment at Carson Springs Conference Center. Now, he officially has a permanent place at CSCC — even though he will no longer be living there. Kevin Perrigan, manager of Carson Springs Baptist Conference […]
December 18, 2024
By Lonnie WilkeyEditor, Baptist and ReflectorNEWPORT — Nearly two months after the Pigeon River flooded its banks due to Hurricane Helene, leaving behind a wake of destruction in its path, Riverview Baptist Church is on the road to recovery. Numerous DR teams and other volunteers have helped the church get to the point where it […]
December 17, 2024
By Lonnie WilkeyEditor, Baptist and ReflectorFRANKLIN — Ten years ago messengers at the annual meeting of the Tennessee Baptist Convention adopted the Five Objectives, a strategic 10-year plan for the ministry of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board and churches throughout the TBC to reach the state for Christ. As the decade for the massive effort […]
December 13, 2024
By Baptist and ReflectorWayne Strong, a member of the Tennessee Baptist Historical Committee and Colonial Heights Baptist Church, Kingsport, manned the TBHC booth at the recent Summit in Murfreesboro with a display he developed featuring the 17 oldest Baptist churches in Tennessee. Over the past six months, he has worked to contact those 17 churches […]
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