Gil McKee served as senior pastor of First Baptist Church Tuscaloosa for nearly 25 years. His final Sunday in the role was Jan. 19. “It’s been the most rewarding, fulfilling pastorate of my life. It’s my Ephesus.”
The local association offers a place for shepherds of God’s flock to turn for help because “in an abundance of counselors, there is safety” (Prov. 11:14).
Family, friends and partners from 40 years of ministry gathered May 19 at Macedonia Baptist Church in Ranburne to honor longtime pastor Morgan Bailey as he transitions from full-time pastoral ministry to a new season of ministry to the Church.
Pastoral ministry is about people, “and ministry can be messy because people are messy,” church consultant Dan Garland told Alabama Baptist pastors at an SBOM Intentional Leaders event earlier this month.
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