Alabama’s public school students showed improvement on three key measures of academic success, according to data released Thursday (June 12) by the department of education.
Kent Davis, who led the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs as its commissioner until being removed last year by Gov. Kay Ivey, has filed a federal lawsuit against Ivey, claiming his termination amounted to violations of his rights.
International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood encouraged all Southern Baptists to recognize their role in missions during the IMB report at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas.
Messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly adopted resolutions of support for two time-honored tenets — the Cooperative Program and the Baptist Faith and Message.
In the case of Tavriski Christian Institute, warfare devastated the school’s campus in Kherson but could not destroy its mission to prepare the next generation of the nation’s Christian leaders.
Southern Baptists united to celebrate 58 newly appointed International Mission Board missionaries, during the June 10 opening session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas.
Craig Carlisle, current Alabama Baptist State Convention president and director of missions for Etowah Baptist Convention, was elected second vice president with 3,765 votes (56.46%) out of 6,668 votes.
Among the 15 motions proposed during the afternoon session of the SBC Annual Meeting today (June 10), one suggests a task force determine how seminaries and others help address the pastoral shortfall many states are experiencing.
