Alabama Baptist associational leaders exploring opportunities to develop cohorts that would help those serving as directors of missions and associational mission strategists gather, build connections and learn from each other.
Check out these recent headlines, reported by The Baptist Paper, the sister publication of The Alabama Baptist.
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).
New grants have helped purchase a trailer that can serve as a refrigerator and freezer for the Rolling Food Pantry, a bus designed to provide fresh food to people in Montgomery’s River Region.
Focused on the theme “Matters of Life & Ministry,” speakers at this year’s School of the Prophets addressed the topics of generosity, prayer, healing, reconciliation, accountability, evangelism and being led by the Holy Spirit.
“All income from the church is reportable income, including recognition gifts,” according to Lee Wright, church compensation specialist for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.
For nearly two years, Pleasant Plains Baptist Church in Ashford has ministered to the laundry department at Southeast Health in Dothan, seeking to be the hands, feet and voice of Jesus to those who work there.
About a year and a half ago, Shirley Crowder said her church — Valley View Baptist in Leeds — found itself “with very few of us hanging on,” and the group remaining was skewing older. “We did not want this church to die,” Crowder said.
