Sponsor calls Alabama lottery bill ‘dead’

August 26, 2016

“The lottery bill for the 2016 special session is dead,” announced the measure’s sponsor, Sen. Jim McClendon, R-Springville, on Aug. 26 after the Senate voted

Excitement builds for new missions offering

August 25, 2016

For some Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) leaders in the state, the upcoming Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering (see story, this page) is filled with excitement. Maggie

WorldSong Missions Place offers summer camp, missions training year-round

August 25, 2016

Another successful summer of camping fun at WorldSong Missions Place in Cook Springs is complete, and more missions education opportunities are planned for fall. WorldSong

Women you should know from Alabama WMU history

August 25, 2016

Jessie Davis Stakely During her term as president (1908–1920), Stakely challenged Alabama Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) members to fund a hospital for women in Laichowfu,

GuideStone restructures staff, 59 take voluntary retirement

August 25, 2016

GuideStone Financial Resources has realigned certain job responsibilities and restructured its workforce as part of its effort to identify and implement new ways to become

New offering to support, supplement

August 25, 2016

“Why have a state missions offering?” asked Rick Lance, executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, in a recent video about the

Polish skills in 8-week stints

August 25, 2016

Samford University’s Ministry Training Institute (MTI) in Birmingham has added three new online programs as well as five additional extension locations. And there’s still time