“We’ve got a lot of success stories, and I know it’s nothing but God’s grace,” said Gary Crum, director of Ellwood Christian Academy.
“To be in a group of ministry leaders in the same season has been very encouraging to me because it reassures me I’m not on an island,” said Tucker Bryson, youth minister of First Baptist Church Centre.
Bryan Blass, director of the office of LeaderCare at the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, said 60 to 70 percent of Alabama Baptist churches are led by bivocational pastors.
Gerald Burns said — as he always has — that if someone else were to take over, he would step aside and let them. But for now, “as long as I’m able, I don’t mind doing it,” he said.
Starting in late May, about 90 college students are headed to 10 states and 17 countries as part of One Mission Students, Alabama Baptists’ collegiate summer missions program.
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.
