Shocco Springs celebrates 60 years, looks to future

January 1, 2009

When Rebekah Waller was born, her parents were working at Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center in Talladega. When Waller got older, she spent her summers

Students blitz city in one of state’s biggest-ever projects

January 1, 2009

Christmas break brought something big for Alabama Baptist missions work. More than 270 Alabama college students, their leaders and trained disaster relief workers participated in

Samford graduates 265, awards Hull honorary doctorate

January 1, 2009

Samford University in Birmingham conferred degrees on 265 graduates from 19 states and three foreign countries and awarded an honorary doctorate to retired former provost

Baptists ‘take back Christmas,’ focus on real meaning

December 23, 2008

It’s time to “Unplug the Christmas machine,” states a book with the same title by Jo Robinson and Jean Coppock Staeheli. And members of First

Ford’s Valley Baptist member reaches out to kids through hunting ministry

December 18, 2008

Forty-six-year-old Hoyt Casey has killed his fair share of deer over the years, but a recent three-day hunting trip in Alabama’s Black Belt allowed him

Dawson Church blitzes six Birmingham locations with church’s largest one-day missions effort

December 18, 2008

By Greg Heyman Linda Lott wasn’t hesitant to express gratitude for a one-day missions effort of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church, Birmingham, in Birmingham Baptist Association,