Katie Green returned from her week-long mission trip to Guatemala the last weekend of June. While her time there was brief, God showed her that time is no constraint when he’s working with a willing pair of hands. She and her team partnered with a children’s orphanage and school...
Jordan Humler is a learner. He got his start at First Baptist through a partnered Spring Break mission trip with the Baptist Collegiate Ministry on UT’s campus in 2014. There, he met Scott Claybrook, who invited him to invest in the growing university ministry at First Baptist. Within a...
Last week, Arthur Clayton returned from a two week trip to South Africa with the Religion Department at Carson-Newman University orchestrated by their Dean of Religion, Dr. David Crutchley. Arthur is working towards a Master of Arts in Applied Theology (MAAT), a degree program that has been...
This summer, First Baptist is sending two students on mission trips across the globe: Lucas Hunter and Katie Green. Both went on the New York mission trip and are University of Tennessee students who heard about First Baptist through the Baptist Collegiate Ministry on campus. “My...
This spring, First Baptist hosted one of four Getting Ahead classes in Knoxville. Graduation was last Wednesday, May 17. Ten people graduated. One grad opened his speech with two questions applicable to us all: How did we get here? How do we get past this? All the graduates answered the same.
After three months of being shut down, Marc and Kim Wyatt have reopened the Welcome House! Marc and Kim are Cooperative Baptist Fellowship missionaries who live and work in the Research Triangle, an eight-county region surrounding Raleigh, North Carolina. First Baptist has partnered with them...
25 Years of CBF The last week of April, First Baptist hosted the three-day Leading Women Conference in partnership with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Baptist Women in Ministry. The conference was a celebration of 25 years of CBF and women’s place in that story. Forty-eight women...