FBC Trussville marks 185th anniversary with baptisms

July 27, 2006

On July 14, 1821, nine people established a new church in the wilderness of central Alabama. On July 9, 2006, nearly 2,000 people witnessed

Brewster Road Church, Birmingham, staff change

July 27, 2006

Jess W. Tenpenny Jr. is the new pastor of Brewster Road Church, Birmingham. Tenpenny served as associate pastor of Brewster Road more than 25 years

Westside Church, Warrior, singing

July 27, 2006

Westside Church, Warrior, will host a fifth Sunday singing, featuring The Tommy Watwood Family, July 30. Lunch will follow the 10:30 a.m. worship service, and

Franklin County churches robbed; suspects caught

July 27, 2006

Six Franklin County churches, three of them members of Franklin Baptist Association, were burglarized and vandalized in a five-day span in mid-July. Within a week

Deerfoot Church, Trussville, Sunday School emphasis

July 27, 2006

Deerfoot Church, Trussville, will host a Sunday School emphasis Aug. 6. Barry Campbell, LifeWay Christian Resource’s director of church consultants for the Eastern region, will

First Church, Montevallo, anniversary and homecoming

July 27, 2006

First Church, Montevallo, will celebrate its 150th anniversary and homecoming Aug. 6 at 10:30 a.m. Dove Edwards, former interim pastor, will speak, and Glenda Blackshear,

Megachurch battles government over classes

July 27, 2006

WASHINGTON — A Washington-area megachurch filed a federal lawsuit July 3, challenging a government ruling that it was improperly holding seminary-level classes on church grounds.