With an arsenal of pitches — including a slider called “dangerous” and a “wicked fast ball” — Jonathan Stevens was named Pitcher of the Year this summer by his team, Bethesda Big Train, which won the championship of the Ripken League.
Jasper recently became the home to the seventh Safe Haven Baby Box located in Alabama. The box is at a designated location where parents can anonymously and safely leave an infant they are unable or unwilling to care for.
The pier at Gulf State Park is now open after a $13.6 million renovation project that started in November.
Volunteers from Alabama continue to help people with flooded homes in South Carolina, offering practical help but also spiritual encouragement and connecting them with local churches.
There are currently 5,906 children in foster care, most of which are either under 3 years old or between 14 and 17 years old. How might the Church make a difference for these children, the foster families, the biological families and DHR?
As waters are receding around the Edisto River in South Carolina, Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are hard at work helping area residents whose houses were flooded by Hurricane Debby on Aug. 3.
After The Church at Brook Hills moved its Hispanic congregation and ESL classes to FBC Hoover, Katherine Woods and others quickly realized the families who came had great needs. That’s when she said God laid it on her heart to start BCCC.
A new Alabama WMU effort called Cultivate will involve a once-a-week prayer focus on campus ministries along with encouraging people to “adopt” one of the state’s Baptist campus ministers.
