Losing house doesn’t stop man from serving

April 22, 2021

George Hamilton had just turned 89 when a tornado leveled his house in 2011. “It was blown completely away, down to the floor,” he said.

Steve Sellers retires from Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries

April 21, 2021

Steve Sellers wasn’t planning on working for Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries. He just knew God was leading him to work with wounded

‘Staggering’ number of volunteers help, set precedent for future response

April 21, 2021

Mel Johnson says he can still see the scars from April 27, 2011, on the landscape when he drives up I-22 in northwest Alabama. Those

Alabamians still feel impact of tornado outbreak decade later

April 21, 2021

In mid-March, Alabamians got some news they didn’t take lightly — weather conditions were shaping up in a way they hadn’t in a decade. The

NOAA weather radios, bicycle helmets, safe shelter essential during tornadoes

April 20, 2021

For many in Alabama, the fateful day on which 62 tornadoes killed 252 people is the generational weather event by which they compare all other

Southern Baptist editors gather virtually for annual meeting

April 20, 2021

Emerging from more than a year of communications challenges and innovations as a result of the global pandemic, leaders of Southern Baptist media outlets gathered

Meteorologist James Spann recalls ‘heavy’ responsibility of destructive day

April 20, 2021

Meteorologist James Spann is to many Alabamians the suspender-wearing sage to whom they turn when the weather gets stormy. Over his four-decade career of weather