Ninety-year-old Thomas Thornton of Muscle Shoals, pastor of Abbie Baptist Church in Leighton, has been in ministry 54 years and says ministry is the “best thing that ever happened to me and my family.”
Several thousand students packed Neville Arena at Auburn University on Sept. 12 for a worship event at Neville Arena and ended the night with a spontaneous baptism service at a lake near the Red Barn on campus.
Barbara Cross, whose father, John, was the pastor of 16th Street Baptist Church when it was bombed on Sept. 15, 1963, said the trauma of that terrible day had an effect on her family but taught her important lessons too.
Pastor Dave Walsh has been a supporter and encourager of TAB for many years. As he steps away from TAB to refocus on family and church ministry, editor Jennifer Davis Rash offers a heartfelt thanks on behalf of the whole TAB team.
Britney McEwen took a traveling nurse contract in New York City in order to serve with Graffiti Church, and the 25-year-old Huntsville resident says she will remember the experience for the rest of her life.
In their new book, “Going to School in Gaza: Lessons Learned in Thirty Years of Service in the Middle East,” Alabama Baptists Paul and Harriet Lawrence write about their time living and serving among Palestinians in a difficult time.
Terry Gillespie, pastor of Chalybeate Springs Baptist Church in Hillsboro, died Aug. 26. He was 68. Gillespie had served as Chalybeate Springs Baptist’s pastor since