“To be in a group of ministry leaders in the same season has been very encouraging to me because it reassures me I’m not on an island,” said Tucker Bryson, youth minister of First Baptist Church Centre.
Bryan Blass, director of the office of LeaderCare at the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, said 60 to 70 percent of Alabama Baptist churches are led by bivocational pastors.
A group of Baptist leaders gathered in Memphis on May 13 to commemorate the centennial of the Cooperative Program through a time of prayer and signing of a Declaration of Cooperation.
“I kept thinking about how the next generation doesn’t understand the Cooperative Program,” said Belinda Stroud, a children’s ministry specialist for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.
At Alabama WMU’s Renew event Feb. 22, about 500 women gathered to hear speaker Heather Johnson, shopped at a WorldCrafts store, took a photo in a giant cake to celebrate the CP’s 100th birthday and left encouraged to be on mission.
Marion police have announced that they arrested 40-year-old Micah Hester at the scene of the fire at the former Judson College library on Feb. 23. Hester is charged with arson, burglary and making a terrorist threat.
Marion Fire and Rescue responded to a call about a fire at the former Judson College on Feb. 23. Upon arrival, they found heavy smoke coming from the basement of the former college library. With help, they were able to contain it.
In Maryland and Delaware, only 14 of the 60 colleges and universities have some kind of Baptist ministry going on. In Alabama, which has the same number of campuses, 44 have Baptist campus ministers at work.
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