An unusual text disrupted Richard Bradley’s workout one morning at the family life center at Gardendale First Baptist Church — someone had a 16-foot cross from the former St. Vincent’s Hospital and didn’t know what to do with it.
When Rebekah Taylor was in the ninth grade, her dad got a new job and they moved to a new church.
Rosalie Hunt said she had been in the house a few times before, but it was just because the owner invited her to see it.
Man Thluai Zing said when her family moved to the Spruce Pine area three years ago, they didn’t come looking for other Burmese families. They came looking for a farm.
Taylor Gurley said when he first agreed to teach theology courses at Bibb Correctional Facility, he wondered how it would go.
Lee Wilder said he and his wife, Dana, got to be a part of something recently that was “a big blessing” — he was able to baptize two Coosa County inmates in Hatchet Creek.
Deena Weston said it’s amazing to see the parking lot of Cloverdale Baptist Church on Sundays these days — it’s full, even overflowing, which is different from how it was in 2016 when she joined the church.
“Can you send us anybody?” That was the question Robert Reed’s father-in-law, Steve Townson, asked him a few months ago — and set something new in motion.
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