Many years ago, Pam Bradford of Hueytown saw people from the Appalachian Mountains without proper food, clothes, shoes and other necessities. Pam knew she had seen this poverty for a reason.
On Feb. 9, the congregation of Capitol Heights Baptist celebrated Carole Eagerton’s retirement with a reception for more than 100 people after she played the organ and piano for 20,000 services.
Don Bennett served as Baptist Campus Minister at the University of Alabama from 1981 to 1990. He was also the husband of Mary Sue, who for 16 years served as special assistant to Rick Lance, SBOM executive director.
James Edward Gibson Jr., who served in ministry in Alabama for nearly 20 years, died Jan. 31. He served at Bethel Baptist Church in Robertsdale from 1990 to 2005 and as senior adult minister for FBC Birmingham from 2005 to 2009.
William Thomas “Tom” Espy, an International Mission Board missionary emeritus who shared the gospel in the United Kingdom, died Dec. 13, 2024, in Canton, Georgia.
Jim Shaddix was a senior professor of preaching at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and served as pastor of teaching/training at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham from 2012 to 2015.