Alabama Baptist Retirement Centers (ABRC) continue to live out the love of Christ by providing “safe, affordable housing” for the elderly.
William “Billy” Austin, president of ABRC, shared with messengers attending the state convention annual meeting Nov. 17 some of the things ABRC is doing, including training churches and associations to extend its ministry.
In the Book of Reports, ABRC reported that it is “providing training and information to churches and associations that desire to establish new ministries or strengthen existing ministries in local nursing homes or retirement facilities.”
ABRC also reported that it recently hired LaJuana Holloway as manager of Knollwood Retirement Community in Roanake.
Doris Conner, a member of Taylor Road Baptist Church, Montgomery, and a resident of ABRC’s Eastview Retirement Community Center in Montgomery, described her experiences at the center.
Shortly after taking early retirement from the Mission Service Corps department of the North American Mission Board, she was diagnosed with a rare lung disease and told to “take it easy.”
“Well my life had never been about taking it easy,” Conner said. “I had always been on the go.”
But at Eastview, she had found a place that was close to her son and a part of the same community for which she had worked.
“Today, I am very thankful to Southern Baptists for providing a place for me to serve for 20 some odd years,” Conner said. “And now when I needed a good place to live in a nice area where I could relax and pay attention to myself and heal, I found that at Eastview.”
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