“At our concerts we want people to know that there is a sense of hope and future in knowing Christ,” says Russ Lee, lead singer of the Christian group NewSong. The group’s 2024 tour kicks off Jan. 12 at the Mitchell Center in Mobile.
“No matter how lost we feel or how difficult things get, Jesus sees us where we are and He’s going to see us through it,” says singer/songwriter Brandon Heath. “Where could we hide from Him? He pursues us. He sees us and stays with us.”
The Jack and Jill Ministry of East Cullman Baptist Association collects hygiene and necessity items as well as emergency back-up clothes for local students who might need a change of clothes due to unforeseen circumstances.
Glory Baptist Church in Winfield, a church plant in northwest Alabama, has seen God affirm its path with “one thing after another” falling into place, said Thomas Hyche, the church’s pastor.
Many interesting and amusing stories have sprung up related to the Christmas season, but none of them is as important as the true story of Christmas — the birth of the Savior!
More than 1,500 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes were dropped off at FBC Hoover, one of Alabama’s 131 drop-off locations for the annual ministry that reaches children worldwide with the gospel.
At First Source for Women, a pregnancy resource center with locations in Cullman and Hanceville, volunteers want women “to know that we love them and through that offer them the hope of Jesus.”
Youth choir tours have consistently been a ministry with great impact, says Jeff Stith, minister of music at First Baptist Church Birmingham, and more churches should consider adding them to their youth calendars.
