Tuesday, March 03, 2020

• Pastors remain faithful as Tennessee tornadoes kill at least 22

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, March 03, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Photo from Facebook

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Pastors shared hope and faith in the midst of death and destruction early Tuesday (March 3) just after a series of tornadoes tore through middle Tennessee, killing at least 22 and heavily damaging businesses, homes and at least two Southern Baptist churches.

  An elderly couple who were longtime members of First Baptist Church of Mount Juliet in Wilson County are among the dead, their pastor Phillip Dunn told Baptist Press hours after the storm passed, heavily damaging the church campus. Read More

• WEEK OF PRAYER: Stepping into unknown -- one hour from home

  by Brandon Elrod, posted Tuesday, March 03, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Photo by Daniel Delgado/NAMB

  CINCINNATI (BP) -- Kirk Kirkland felt a stirring in his soul to start a church in the inner city. For seven years, he served as an associate pastor at the Baptist church where he grew up in Dayton, Ohio.

  "We got the sense that maybe God was calling us out from this place of comfort," Kirkland recalled, "where we lived just a couple of blocks from our church and we got paid every Friday -- kind of living the American dream." Read More

• FROM THE SEMINARIES: Chitwood at SWBTS; MBTS Sizemore lectures

  by By SBC Seminaries Staff, posted Tuesday, March 03, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Chitwood to SWBTS: 'Much Great Commission work to be done'; MBTS Sizemore Lectures focus on church fathers Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: 3 ways Facebook can be extention of church’s ministry

  by Chris Martin, posted Tuesday, March 03, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Social media manager Chris Martin outlines three ways churches can use Facebook to extend the ministry it is already doing in its community. Read More