“To be in a group of ministry leaders in the same season has been very encouraging to me because it reassures me I’m not on an island,” said Tucker Bryson, youth minister of First Baptist Church Centre.
Bryan Blass, director of the office of LeaderCare at the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, said 60 to 70 percent of Alabama Baptist churches are led by bivocational pastors.
“Every church has its own personality and culture, and wise leaders respond to this culture in appropriate ways,” Buddy Champion, pastor of First Baptist Church Trussville, said.