For 63 years, Finklea served as a pastor, including spending 25 years at FBC Brewton. He retired in 1999, and the church named him pastor emeritus. After retirement, he served 24 more years as pastor of a small country church in Sepulga.
Alabama schools improved their overall grade to 87 points out of 100 available on both state and federal report cards for the 2024-25 school year, according to preliminary data presented to state board of education members Nov. 13.
Mark Vroegop spoke on the power of lament during a recent University of Mobile chapel service. Vroegop is president of The Gospel Coalition and has
Pleasant View Missionary Baptist Church, Holly Pond, will host a singing Nov. 16 at 5 p.m. featuring Bloodline. For more information, call 256-796-5986 or 256-590-1501. Earl Harper is
More than a dozen years after the Great Recession forced painful cuts across Alabama’s schools, state lawmakers determined not to repeat them have built up what will soon be $3 billion in reserves to protect against another downturn.
Messengers to the Nov. 11–12 Alabama Baptist State Convention annual meeting at Whitesburg Baptist Church, Huntsville, approved a $37.5 million Cooperative Program allocation budget for 2026, elected a slate of new officers …
Kicking for a Cause is a platform to raise money for the work done by Respite Ministry.
The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.
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