ARKANSAS Since 2010, Arkansas Baptists have spent the first Saturday of October participating in One Day Acts 1:8 Missions Experience, reported the Arkansas Baptist News.
Charles Freeman, longtime pastor of Hillwood Baptist Church, Huntsville, died Oct. 12. He was 70. A native of Bessemer, he accepted Christ at age 9
Anneli Valtonen Dotson, former Southern Baptist missionary to Zimbabwe and Namibia, died Oct. 4. She was 92. Dotson was born in Finland and felt a
James E. Messer Sr. — a pastor and evangelist for more than 50 years — died Oct. 6. He was 76. A Mississippi native, Messer served
Florida This fall as college and university students arrived on campuses throughout the Sunshine State, Florida’s Baptist Campus Ministries geared up with new opportunities to
Longtime Alabama Baptist pastor William O’Neal Billingsley died Oct. 1. He was 84. A Thorsby native, Billingsley was a pastor for more than 47 years,
Daniel Lloyd is the new Baptist Campus Ministries director at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville. Lloyd is a native of Atlanta but grew up
Given the decline in attendance at houses of worship and the so-called rise of nones, it might come as a surprise that the majority of
