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.
Melanie Brown is serving as the interim children’s minister of First Baptist Church Geneva.
Elim Baptist Church, Andalusia, will celebrate its 200th anniversary June 22. Worship begins at 11 a.m.
Matthew Jacobs is the new pastor of Elkdale Baptist Church, Selma.
Larry Patterson is retiring June 30 as associational missionary for Escambia Baptist Association.
The quilting ministry of FBC Semmes has grown from two to twenty women who come to quilt every first and third Monday afternoon.
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