Northside Church, Opelika, homecoming

July 20, 2006

Northside Church, Opelika, will celebrate homecoming July 30. Jim Gilboy, pastor of Hatchechubbee Church, Hatchechubbee, will speak. Northside also will hold revival July 31–Aug. 2.

Fairview Church, Selma, staff graduation

July 13, 2006

James E. Parker Jr., pastor of Fairview Church, Selma, graduated May 13 from New Orleans Seminary with a master of divinity degree.

Betty Baggott retires as columnist after 18 years

July 13, 2006

Eighteen years after her first column appeared in The Alabama Baptist, Betty Baggott has decided to retire. During that span, Betty wrote about people,

Baptist church in Pine Apple gets ministry opportunity when people flock to front porch

July 13, 2006

Sit a spell and visit.” That’s your invitation in Pine Apple, population 145. It’s a small dot on the map as you drive through Wilcox

Meadow View Community Church, Alabaster, staff change

July 13, 2006

David Johnson is the new minister of music of Meadow View Community Church, Alabaster. Bob Fitzgerald is pastor.

Dancy FBC thanks Baptists for aiding in post-fire rebuild

July 13, 2006

Little more than five months after arsonists burned Dancy First Baptist Church near Aliceville in the second string of Alabama church fires, an overflow crowd