Each fall, messengers to Baptist state conventions typically gather in annual meetings to hear ministry reports, celebrate accomplishments and conduct business. This year, because of
Billy Austin, longtime leader of Alabama Baptist Retirement Centers and current interim director of missions of Tuscaloosa Baptist Association, died Sept. 12. He was in
Alabama joins the nearly 20 state conventions adapting or not holding an annual meeting in 2020. A special online State Missions Celebration will take place
With “a complete sense of peace,” Samford University President Andrew Westmoreland announced Aug. 28 his plans to retire from the presidency effective June 30, 2021.
The upcoming annual meetings of Tennessee and Mississippi Baptists have been postponed (and possibly will not be held) due to the coronavirus pandemic. Alabama Baptist
A straight-line decline in membership for more than 50 years should sound an alarm for Southern Baptists, something several ardent researchers and ministry leaders in