Sunday Mornings @ 1B

College Class and Quarterlife class for graduate students will be studying John Ortberg's The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You in Trentham Hall beginning at 9:45 AM.


 

 

 

Get Involved
College students @ 1B serve by singing in the choir, working in the youth group, and mentoring at-risk kids at South Knoxville Elementary. They work in our Buckner community ministry with homeless clients and assist our Sunday Bible study with special needs children. Contact Mark Moeller to get involved: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Baptist Collegiate Ministry at UT

University of Tennessee BCM Partnership from First Baptist Church, Knoxville on Vimeo.

The Baptist Collegiate Ministry at the University of Tennessee has just completed our building remodeling and addition project. Over 250 were in attendance for the building dedication on August 29, 2009. First Baptist Church made crucial contributions to the project’s successful completion. The church gave $10,000 in budgeted funds. Individual church members were generous financial contributors as well.

This $1,500,000 project was completed for $900,000. The savings were made possible through the efforts of over 300 volunteers who donated time and construction skills. All of the out-of-town volunteer teams were housed free of charge at First Baptist Church.

Herman Weaver regularly donated leftovers from church meals to feed lunches to volunteer teams. Jim Moore and Marion Graybeal built four beautiful stained glass windows for the BCM’s new prayer room. Tommy and Francis Nipper made prayer benches out of recycled lumber. Marion Graybeal, Andy Edmondson, Jim, Kay and Scott Bailey, Gene Sanders, Steve Bowman and Vince Vawter built the stage for the worship center and installed baseboard and wall caps for the second floor. Gary Forry painted windows. Gene Reagan cleaned hundreds of bricks. Dozens of other church members spent days in volunteer service.

In the late 1920’s and early 1930’s, Dr. Fred Brown, then pastor of First Baptist church, established a Baptist Collegiate Ministry on The University of Tennessee campus (the ministry was called Baptist Student Union in those days). Since that time, First Baptist Church has been supporting and enabling collegiate ministry on the UT campus. There is no way to adequately express our gratitude to First Baptist. Without First Baptist Church, collegiate ministry on the UT campus would not be possible.

Stop by and allow me to give you a personal tour of what is now one of the finest collegiate ministry centers in the nation.

~ Dr. Bob Hall, Director