Tom Whatley thought he would have a career in military, but he couldn’t resist God’s call to ministry. Over the years, he served several Alabama churches, including spending 27 years as pastor of Woodward Avenue Baptist in Muscle Shoals.
The decline in Alabama’s public school enrollment is worse than originally thought.
A new, private non-profit group is hoping to use members’ collective expertise to find funding and sustainability for Alabama’s rural hospitals.
Kevin McCreless, longtime pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Rainsville, died Oct. 16. In February, Broadway Baptist honored McCreless and named him pastor emeritus as he retired from 33 years of ministry there.
Alabama leaders are partnering with Birmingham-based nonprofit Ed Farm and Apple on a state-funded $16 million initiative to expand digital learning and workforce training in some of the state’s most rural communities.
In the first year of Alabama’s CHOOSE Act, a small group of private schools are already seeing the majority of their students using the state-funded education savings accounts.
Roger Bailey said when she told him what the kiddie pool was for, he couldn’t believe it. He had gone to her family’s home — a
Alabama farm leaders are celebrating a new federal rule decreasing the wages agriculture-related businesses must pay people hired through a guest worker program.
