92-year-old John Host probably shouldn’t be alive, but he continues to thrive thanks to family and friends at the Hueytown Seniors Center. He’s also a mathematical genius, just one chapter of his amazing story.
“When you are retired sometimes you think you have no purpose left. This gave us a purpose and God blessed it. … God has provided equipment, supplies, time. It is all to His glory.”
Tim Lacey has retired after serving as minister of music and senior adults at First Baptist Church Winfield for 27 years and a total of 44 years of ministering through music in Southern Baptist churches.
Jan. 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Several faith-based organizations in Alabama work with government and community leaders to equip people to recognize human trafficking and help those caught in its snare.
Seventh Day Slumber is part of Winter Jam, which kicks off Jan. 12 in Mobile, Alabama, at the Mitchell Center.
It’s a story of forgiveness and how a father’s love can break through barriers even as strong as a lifelong addiction.
“Pointing our hearts in the same direction … choosing to be the family of God … is what our culture needs to see right now — to be this city on a hill, a living example of how we can be that unity in diversity.” —Jason Gray
As Alabama prepares to take on Michigan in the Rose Bowl, longtime Crimson Tide chaplain Jeremiah Castille reflects on life lessons learned while playing for Bear Bryant and how those lessons inform his faith and ministry today.
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