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.”
Charles “Charlie” James, 84, of Muscle Shoals has been in ministry 53 years. Forty-eight years were spent as a pastor. In that time, he served
Ask 100-year-old Frances Juanita “Nita” Thompson Tidwell about her calling in life, and her response will be that it was “to raise my family.” She
Brenda Cantrell Baeder, 81, of Hazel Green is the mother of two and grandmother of four. She has been at the same church for 75
Mary Etta Bates said she never set out to spend 77 years as her church’s pianist. When she was 13 years old, she just got
As a child, Annie Kate Revert’s goal was to play piano at her church. In 10th grade, she achieved that and devoted the next 65
Name: Lillian Overton Ministry description: Missions Church name: First Baptist Church Opelika, in Tuskegee Lee Baptist Association Life verses: Psalm 23 and John 14 Many
Donnie Isbell Byrd, 92, of Tuscumbia, was born in 1929, one of nine children. She never misses church and is involved in WMU and other
