Don’t go alone, stressed Spencer Bell to Alabama Baptists during his message Wednesday morning (Nov. 12) at the Alabama Baptist State Convention annual meeting in Huntsville. Ministry work, he noted, is about “working together with Him.”
Huntsville pastor Jarman Leatherwood elected president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention after serving the past four years in vice president roles.
Southern Baptists are ambassadors for Christ and have been given a clear message and mission He wants communicated to His world, said Jeff Iorg.
When Hayden was a student at the University of Alabama, she met some of Christ’s “ambassadors” at the Baptist Campus Ministries.
Alabama Baptist messengers to the state convention meeting adopted three resolutions during the Nov. 11 afternoon session. Two of the three related to issues important to Baptists while the third shared the traditional note of gratitude.
“I thank God for this theme. I love anytime the word of God is being explained and revealed to us compelled to share the gospel and to be ministers of reconciliation,” said Dewayne Rembert, pastor of Flatline Church at Chisholm.
Messengers to the Alabama Baptist State Convention annual meeting voted Nov. 11 to keep the same $37.5 million budget moving into next year with a 50-50 split between Alabama Baptist and Southern Baptist ministries.
Craig Carlisle says “how soon we forget” is more than a proverb — it’s a way of life.
