Tennessee Temple UniversityTennessee Temple University has entered into exploratory discussions about the development of a new campus at Woodland Park Baptist Church in Tyner.
The school, which is landlocked within 21 acres in Highland Park, potentially would relocate to the 170-acre church site on Standifer Gap Road.
If such a move appears viable in the coming months, a nonbinding memorandum of understanding between the two institutions would likely be written, officials said.
Dr. Wayne Barber, senior pastor of Woodland Park, said he believes an initial partnership might involve the church and the school sharing space in the manner that Johnson Ferry Baptist Church and New Orleans Theological Seminary do in Marietta, Ga.
Tennessee Temple has been without a partnering church since Highland Park Baptist, now Church of the Highlands, moved to Harrison in January.