Spring Meadows sponsors online video series for teens
April 19, 2012
SPRING HILL, Tenn., (BNc) – This summer, a team of youth ministers from churches of Christ are releasing 12 HD video messages for churches to use and discuss together.
#HASHTAG Youth Series: the online video series for teenagers, will be available online to families, groups, and churches around the world. Their goal is to be able to meet young people where they are – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo and all the other places teenager spend their time online. Using these networks #HASHTAG will present different aspects of what Jesus has done, what Jesus is doing, and what Jesus will do, and why it matters for young people. Read more
Titanic Museum features Christian author’s fiction
March 23, 2012
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (BNc) — Tammy S. Knox’s book of historical fiction, Trapped on the Titanic, will be featured in the Titanic Museum during the centennial celebration of the accident.
Tammy, whose husband Michael is a gospel preacher in Mount Pleasant, Tenn., said she had been writing the story aimed at ten-year-olds since she was a teen.
The Titanic Museum is owned by John Joslyn, one of the explorers of the sunken vessel in 1987.
The book centers around the Titanic tragedy and the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. A 13-year-old girl goes to a Titanic exhibit and sees a portrait of a young girl, about age 10, who resembles her. She experiences some ghostly encounters and learns that the girl in the portrait was one of her ancestors who died on the Titanic. Read more
Maurice O’Neal dies at 91
March 5, 2012
Maurice C. “Bro. O” O’Neal, age 91 of Nashville, Tenn., died on March 3, 2012, after an extended illness.
O’Neal was b
orn to the late Arbie Butler O’Neal and W.D. O’Neal on May 14, 1920 in Lincoln Co., Tenn.
He was reared in Marshall Co., and attended Cornersville High School. He received his GED from Middle Tennessee State Teachers College 1951 and graduated from David Lipscomb College 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ministerial Speech and three minors, Bible, Greek & Song Leading Music. Read more
Harding students in serious car accident
March 5, 2012
SEARCY, Ark. (BNc) – Six Harding University students were involved in a serious auto accident on the way to Fort Worth for Spring Break on Friday, March 2.
After one car was rear ended, Ty Howard Osman, II, a freshman from Nashville, Tenn., got out his vehicle to check on the other car. When he was going back to his vehicle, it was struck by another auto, and he was hit by his own vehicle. Read more
A very beautiful woman with a winning smile
December 3, 2011
From an unsigned article on the Mt Juliet church website
Bernice “Bonnie” Mable Cronk (1923-2011)
MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (BNc) — “She was a very beautiful woman with a winning smile.” So someone said recently, summing up the first impression one would have upon meeting Bonnie Cronk.
Many of us grew to love her and her late husband, Jack Sr., in the winter of their lives. Even then she was a lovely lady inside and out. The deeper impression Bonnie would leave was her inner beauty. Read more
Harding Academy Memphis names new president
October 26, 2011
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BNc) — Harding Academy Memphis announced on its website earlier today the appointment of Trent Williamson as its new president, effective June 1, 2012.
Williamson was a teacher and coach at Harding from 1990-95. His wife teaches at Harding, and his children attend the school as well.
Harding also released a short video of the announcement and Williamson’s acceptance of the post. Read more
“Michelle Rogers Field of Dreams” becomes a reality
October 12, 2011
CLEVELAND, Tenn. (BNc) – Michelle Rogers had a dream, but it would cost $65,000 to fulfill it.
Rogers, who taught middle school for two years, transferred to Waterville Community Elementary, where she has been for five years. When she arrived in Waterville, she heard parents complain about the lack of adaptive playground equipment for the handicapped.
Organization to be honored
September 7, 2011
RALEIGH, NC (BNc) – The Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Organization of Nashville, TN is to be honored on Sept. 17 at the Mid-Atlantic Evangelism Seminar in Raleigh, NC.
The national volunteer disaster relief organization, out of Nashville, Tenn., and supported by churches of Christ, individuals, corporations and other non-profit agencies nationwide, will be honored during the 38th Annual Mid-Atlantic Evangelism Seminar to be held at the Brooks Avenue Church of Christ in Raleigh Sept. 16-18th. Read more
Early history of Chattanooga congregtation
August 29, 2011
by Ernest Clevenger, Jr.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (BNc) — The Restoration booklet, A History of the Cowart Street Church of Christ, Chattanooga, TN, published in 1972, and compiled by Ernest A. Clevenger, Sr., has been edited and reissued by Ernest Clevenger, Jr.
Cowart Street was the mother church in Chattanooga, established in 1886.
The 37 page booklet has been converted into a PDF e-Book. It contains informative articles by early members, a roll call of men, many well-known, who preached for the church, an article about finding preachers locally, and several narratives of families who made up the church.
Cowart Street was responsible for the establishment of more than a dozen of the congregations in the Chattanooga area. It lost its property to freeway construction in 1958.
This Restoration history e-Book can be downloaded free.
Greg Tidwell named Gospel Advocate editor
August 23, 2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BNc) — Gregory Alan Tidwell has been named editor of Gospel Advocate magazine by publisher Neil W. Anderson.
Tidwell will assume the role of editor from Anderson, who will retire as editor in September. Anderson will continue as publisher.
Greg is the minister with the Fishinger and Kenney congregation in Columbus, Oh. He studied journalism and public relations at Ohio State University and was awarded the M.A. from Vanderbilt University.
Tidwell will become the seventeenth editor of the 156-year-old magazine beginning with the October issue. Read more



