“When the Lord brought us an offer from a growing church who desperately needed the space, we voted overwhelmingly to sell and relocate,” said pastor Steve Potts.
Gerald Burns said — as he always has — that if someone else were to take over, he would step aside and let them. But for now, “as long as I’m able, I don’t mind doing it,” he said.
Starting in late May, about 90 college students are headed to 10 states and 17 countries as part of One Mission Students, Alabama Baptists’ collegiate summer missions program.
Jerry Bedsole jokes that his Sunday School class at First Baptist Church Foley is the “last stop.” “If you come here, you go ‘up,’ you don’t go out,” said Bedsole, who turned 85 in March.
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