Several thousand students packed Neville Arena at Auburn University on Sept. 12 for a worship event at Neville Arena and ended the night with a spontaneous baptism service at a lake near the Red Barn on campus.
Jay Penton, outreach director for “Men in the Arena” and longtime men’s ministry advocate, is the new pastor of men’s ministry at Prattmont Baptist Church, Prattville.
Barbara Cross, whose father, John, was the pastor of 16th Street Baptist Church when it was bombed on Sept. 15, 1963, said the trauma of that terrible day had an effect on her family but taught her important lessons too.
Semmes First Baptist Church was founded in 1872 — the first recorded church in the city — and the church recently erected a new historical marker to share its story.