Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey today (Aug. 27) extended Alabama’s current Safer At Home state public health order, which includes the statewide mask ordinance, through Friday,
BLOUNT ASSOCIATION Almost everyone who contracted COVID-19 at a mid-July revival at Warrior Creek Baptist Church in the Strawberry community is over the virus, according
BLOUNT ASSOCIATION Randy George Burtram — pastor of Pleasant View Baptist Church, Holly Pond, for the past 22 years — died Aug. 18. He was
MARSHALL ASSOCIATION Brent Porter is the new student pastor at First Baptist Albertville. Brent and his wife, Jaquie, have three children.
PLEASANT GROVE ASSOCIATION Vial Fontenot is the new pastor of Big Hurricane Baptist Church, Brookwood. Fontenot retired from full-time ministry in March 2019 after serving
ALABAMA-CRENSHAW ASSOCIATION Michael Keith Thomas — pastor of Joquin Baptist Church, Goshen, died Aug. 14. He was 68. After high school, Thomas started work with
STATE BOARD OF MISSIONS The Alabama Baptist Discipleship Conference scheduled for September has been postponed until 2021 because of COVID-19. For more information about the
UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE The University of Mobile welcomed incoming students on the first day of class with the President’s Commissioning, a tradition in which new
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