The Alabama Christian Life Commission (CLC) used its report time Nov. 18 for a “commissioning and blessing” ceremony for Otis Corbitt, an associate in the office of associational missions and church planting for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM).
Corbitt, who works with church planting and church building services and is a North American Mission Board-appointed missionary, also serves as a chaplain in the Army National Guard. He will deploy soon for about a year in Iraq.
Calling all people connected with the military to the stage, Joe Bob Mizzell, director of the office of Christian ethics and chaplaincy ministries for the SBOM, led the ceremony, which included the presentation of a coin and a Bible to Corbitt and a coin to Rick Lance, executive director of the SBOM.
“I will serve as a pastor to soldiers serving in Iraq,” Corbitt said. “I’ll be serving in a range of ministries and crisis intervention, but my own personal ministry will be to get to know the soldiers and help them find a relationship with Jesus.”
Corbitt requested prayer for himself, his family and his battalion.
“I’ll be gone for 400 days. My family needs your prayers for protection. For my battalion, that they will be safe. For me, that I will be a spiritual reference point a soldier can come to in times of need and triumph, and mostly that souls will be saved.”
The Book of Reports notes that the primary mission of the CLC is “to study and inform Alabama Baptists of current moral and ethical issues facing [them] as [they] seek to be Great Commission Christians.” To this end, the CLC promotes special Sunday emphases, including Sanctity of Human Life, Racial Reconciliation, Substance Abuse Prevention, Citizenship and Religious Liberty, Social Issues, Anti-gambling and World Hunger. The World Hunger Offering for 2008 was $771,491.
The CLC publishes a quarterly Christian Life Report “encouraging social, political and economic responsibility.”
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