Fernando Vera is the new Hispanic church planter at First Baptist Church Albertville. He will spend the next nine months in Birmingham in a Hispanic Church Planting Residency and will be on the field in Albertville by the start of next summer. Vera and his wife have two sons. Chris Johnson is pastor.
Lee Tate is retiring as associational missions strategist for West Central Baptist Association on Aug. 31.
Jonathan “JB” Brown is the new associational missions strategist of West Central Baptist Association.
Joey Cannady recently retired as pastor of Solitude Baptist Church, Albertville, where he served 28 years.
The Way church was formerly Deerfoot Baptist Church in Trussville and had moved to Argo and changed its name in the spring of 2025.
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