“If you look around, people are always on their phones,” one missionary said, “and the cool thing is it doesn’t cost much to send out digital ads, so you have the potential to reach even more people.”
Despite a 2019 law allowing students to leave campus for religious instruction, many Alabama school districts lack policies permitting it. Rep. Susan DuBose, R-Hoover, wants to change that.
Alabama has more than a million eligible residents for Medicaid and more than half of the recipients are children, according to a January report. More than half of all births in Alabama are covered by Medicaid.
“This was a humbling and emotional experience,” said Marine Corps veteran Drew Bair.
“We pray that when you depart this place on Sunday, you will have experienced encouragement just as you have encouraged someone else,” IMB’s Laura Harrell said during the March 20–23 event.
Men have outpaced women in church attendance the past three years, reversing a longstanding trend of more women in the pews that narrowed in 2016, Barna said in its 2025 State of the Church release, created in partnership with Gloo.
GenAI is an advanced subset of AI that can generate content often indistinguishable from human-generated content, and has the ability for advanced and dynamic pattern recognition.
“We will have nurses coming in … and if we don’t develop that pipeline now and streamline how to get them in, then in four years from now, we may be in trouble,” said Peggy Benson, ABN executive director.
