Billy Austin, president of the Alabama Baptist Retirement Centers (ABRC), has been elected president of the Association of Baptist Ministers to the Aging (ABMA).
The organization’s membership includes persons from across the Southern Baptist Convention involved in senior adult ministry, such as long-tern care and housing, church senior adult ministers, and staff members of educational and denominational agencies.
“our primary purpose is twofold,” Austin said.
“We help foster fellowship among kindred ministers and strengthen our own individual ministries by involvement with others,” he said.
Prior to joining the ABRC staff, Austin served as a pastor for 27 years and has served as registration secretary for the Alabama Baptist State Convention since 1985.
ABRC operates retirement centers in Tuscaloosa, Dothan, Montgomery and Roanoke.
It also helps local churches develop and strengthen ministries in area nursing and retirement facilities as well as providing educational programs to churches and other groups on the subject of ministry to the elderly in a retirement setting.
ABMA’s next meeting will be next February in Augusta, Ga.
Anyone interested in membership may call Austin at 1-800-264-1225, ext. 328, or e-mail him at baustin@alsbom.org.
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