Dawson church members help open hospital in southern Sudan

November 2, 2006

The attacks, torture and genocide taking place in Darfur make headlines day after day, week after week. More than 200,000 have been killed there in

Hillcrest ousted because of female associate pastor

November 2, 2006

Hillcrest Baptist Church (HBC), Mobile, was recently ousted from Mobile Baptist Association (MBA) by an overwhelming vote on the grounds that the church’s hiring a

Cannon retires after 51 years of pastoral ministry

October 26, 2006

Fifty-one years after he answered the call to preach at Catherine Baptist Church in Bethel Baptist Association, W.J. Cannon Jr. decided to end his ministry

Meetings related to state convention annual meeting set for Nov. 12–14

October 26, 2006

MONDAY Alabama Network of Christian Community Ministers (CCM): Nov. 13, Gardendale’s First Baptist Church, Room 1024 (near the sanctuary), 9:15 a.m. Speakers are Tony Cooper

Atcheson heading up Billy Graham Library effort

October 26, 2006

Wayne Atcheson, a former Alabama Baptist, has been named director of the Billy Graham Library at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.

Study finds speaking in tongues not prevalent

October 26, 2006

WASHINGTON — Speaking in tongues, long a hallmark of Pentecostalism, is not practiced by a significant number of charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, a new 10-country