Bobby Hopper retires from DOM of Hale Baptist Association

HALE ASSOCIATION

As Bobby Hopper watched the COVID-19 pandemic challenge churches throughout 2020, he couldn’t shake the feeling that God was calling him back into preaching.

Since 2016, he had served as director of missions for Hale Baptist Association. When he started there, he was also serving as DOM for Bethel Baptist Association. He served both until the beginning of 2018, when he retired from Bethel to focus on Hale.

But now Hopper says God has called him into a different kind of “retirement” — to return home to Chilton County and serve as pastor of Mount Carmel No. 2 Baptist Church, Maplesville, where he started at the beginning of the year. Before becoming a director of missions, he had served in pastoral roles.

Hopper says he also will continue his writing ministry, blogging at behopper.blogspot.com and working on books.

“I say I’m retiring, but really it’s just a change in ministry direction,” he said.