Alabama Baptists volunteer nationally, internationally

August 10, 2000

Mountain Brook Baptist Church, Birmingham, sent a construction team to Portland, Maine, June 18-24. The church also had a senior high school team in Cedar

Tuckers named to NAMB’s Mission Service Corps

August 10, 2000

Alabamian Ashley Tucker and her husband, Jimmy, have been assigned to Mission Service Corps volunteers to Casper, Wyo. The Tuckers are serving for two years

Alabama Baptists participate in Chicago effort

July 20, 2000

Alabama Baptists were among the more than 1,500 volunteers from out-of-town who joined local Baptists in Chicago as part of a massive evangelism and church-planting

Former Alabamian looks back at ‘Russian Harvest’

July 13, 2000

Russia will never let go of my heart,” the late Ken Murphy reflected in his book, “Russian Harvest,” about the five-year missions partnership between Baptists

Perkinses appointed missionaries

June 8, 2000

Jimmy Perkins, who grew up in Talladega, and his wife, Beverly, have been appointed by the North American Mission Board (NAMB) to serve in associational

‘Retired’ pastor enjoys interim position in Hawaiian paradise

June 8, 2000

Most people want to take time off after retiring, but not Don Gentry. And when he decided to tackle his next assignment, it was in

Breast cancer hits ‘one in eight’

April 20, 2000

Breast cancer awareness is growing. Rosie O’Donnell and other celebrities are wearing pink ribbons in support of breast cancer survivors and to memorialize victims.