Disaster relief teams from Colbert-Lauderdale Baptist Association and Madison Baptist Association are hard at work after a storm system moved through north Alabama on Tuesday night (May 20), spawning tornadoes.
Jerry Bedsole jokes that his Sunday School class at First Baptist Church Foley is the “last stop.” “If you come here, you go ‘up,’ you don’t go out,” said Bedsole, who turned 85 in March.
Harold Harmon had just gotten his campsite set up that morning when he got the phone call from his friend.
The quilting ministry of FBC Semmes has grown from two to twenty women who come to quilt every first and third Monday afternoon.
Craig Carlisle, Alabama Baptist State Convention president and director of missions for Etowah Baptist Association, will be nominated for Southern Baptist Convention second vice president by Pastor Jared Cornutt in June.
His Place, a one-year residential program in Opelika founded in 1986 by evangelist Rick Hagans and his wife, Kim, aims to help men overcome addiction. A companion ministry for women, Hosanna Home, opened in 1996.
“I kept thinking about how the next generation doesn’t understand the Cooperative Program,” said Belinda Stroud, a children’s ministry specialist for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.
Pastor Eric Sexton said the church’s cooking teams are “a great way for different people in the church to serve.”
