“We’re one of the best kept secrets in the state of Alabama,” said Don Falgout, manager of the Baptist Village in Dothan.
He was speaking of the Alabama Baptist Retirement Centers in the state with locations in Tuscaloosa, Dothan, Montgomery and Roanoke. These centers currently offer about 500 elderly people places to live and find various levels of care.
“The greatest ministry we have is the one where people come to us and they say they know they are not going to be here long, and they are scared,” he said. “We can pray with them and see a light come in their faces.”
Promoting good health, Falgout spoke of his own journey with health and losing weight and the impact Baptists had in his life.
His condition had become so severe that he had to be hospitalized, and after a long road he managed to lose 195 pounds.
His medical needs meant he had to take time out from his leadership role in Dothan. But this absence illustrated the convention’s emphasis on Healthy Leaders, Healthy Churches.
Falgout sought and is seeking to become a healthier leader for a healthy Baptist institution.
Falgout challenged those more than 100 pounds overweight to find help soon. “Help is there, if you’ll just get it,” he said.
And the Alabama Baptist Retirement Centers stand ready to help with a diversity of needs of retirees in Alabama.
Billy Austin, executive director of the retirement centers, said, “Your retirement centers are financially sound and thoroughly committed to ministering to the retirement needs of the elderly of this state.”
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